The admins have a moral compass that aligns with my own, and I’m pretty sure they have an actual compass as well. So far they have been open about all issues and addressed them quickly, often before their instance was affected.
They took community input before preemptively defederating from threads and all of the booty and plunder is shared equally among the crew. The artwork is sick and often features Lemmy from Motorhead in various shades of cyberpunk or steampunk pirate getup and it really feels like home.
As a matter of fact I might donate some money to the cause, these guys rock.
They literally just post celebrities there like all day. It’s so creepy
I think that’s all you see if you aren’t logged in. Cause I saw the same thing and then created an account. I promise it’s not all they post.
This. You see the goid stuff only if you log in. If you don’t log in it should be a rather safe for work. Although probably super creepy at work
Dude, totally. Like, if you’re gonna post porn, at least post non-consensual porn of people you know??? /s
I feel like having a preference kind of defeats the point?
I thought they were supposed to be interchangeable?
It’s the communities yours supposed to care about.
The instance preference can be important if you look at the Local Communities timeline. Niche instances will usually have more communities relevant to that niche. However, with current user distribution most users are either on Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml.
A Federated space where this more apparent is on Mastodon. I joined SFBA,social because it is local to me (San Francisco Bay Area, California, US). The Local Timeline is all users on the instance. As a good proportion of them are from the area I can learn about local events/projects/news.
That’s always been the burning question for me. Why choose one over the other? What kind of attributes should I look at to do informed comparisons? Like server uptime, number of users, which instances they’ve federated with (or not federated with)…
And how and where can I see all this in one place? If it’s truly interchangeable, which it really isn’t, then why not have a single unified web front (which makes it more like a distributed service) to reduce confusion for most normal users?
Lemmy.world is noticeably slower and prone to have issues compared to the smaller instances for me.
the instance I’m on seems to be performant enough :)
I think the unified webfront is a bit tough, I believe right now the instance will pull from other instances if someone on the instance your in is following something from their instance
But you can really be on any instance and follow stuff from everywhere else, the search needs a bit of work in cataloging everything so a tool like https://browse.feddit.de/ is really useful in finding communities
I would also like to shout out https://lemmyverse.net, it’s basically indexed every instance and every community (even minuscule instances like mine are counted), and I think it has a really good search and sorting function. Also, it does include KBin magazines, but you have to enable it in the settings menu in the upper right part of the screen.
That is awesome! Thanks!
No problem, I use it all the time, it’s honestly vital for small instances like mine.
iusearchlinux.fyi just for the domain name 😎
(and it’s a neat, friendly instance too)
Https://Yiffit.net. After so many years of feeling like the furry spaces on Reddit were a little too childish or at least child friendly, it’s great to find the same kind of adult vibe that I remember from when I was more active in the furry community as a teen/young adult.
slrpnk.net If you’re into climate activism and self sufficiency
https://lemmy.blahaj.zone For us queer folkBlahaj is life
https://lemmy.ml They defederated from Threads, as everyone should do. I was there to see how Google fucked up XMPP via EEE when they joined that federation. Meta is doing the same.
I moved to lemmy.ml from lemmy.world when lemmy.world didn’t act on this. There’s no room for corporations in the fediverse.
Fuck Lemmygrad, loud authoritarians. There’s no room for dictators on the fediverse.
That’s lemmygrad.ml, not lemmy.ml. Don’t confuse things.
Also, I would take an alive fediverse and some communities I can ignore and not subscribe to than a dead fediverse in the hands of the corporations. See what Google did to XMPP. See reddit. See twitter. See threads…
Edit: this is an incredibly good read https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Does anyone know how to block instances from showing up in your feed? The lemmygrad stuff is one of the instances I’d love to not see.
You can’t block instances, only admins can do that
lemmy.ca should be mentioned. It’s like midwest.social, super chill…
Is that a canadian or a california instance?
Canadian instance
Lemm.ee, quick, responsive and just works.
lemmy.ml looks cool, I couldn’t create an account with them recently but I had a two year old account with a federated site that should work iirc.
Don’t join lemmy.ml. Those guys suck.
I’ve seen the post about comments/posts ‘critical of China’ being removed - the actual posts in question were low information, misleading and in many cases also denying reality. One guy denied we’re in a (soft) cold war even. I think the mods there need to be clearer about the rules though, and criticism of any country’s actions should be allowed. They left the post up btw.
And I’m actually okay with discussions about geopolitics being controlled. Those tend to bring out the worst wierdos from the old place.
For 1 internet point please write a 1000 word essay on the geopolitical ramifications of the war in Iraq circa 2003.
Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - there’s no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.
Users voted to defed from exploding heads in the agora community.
