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Lemmy.ca is the best. Large local instance, great uptime, good admins.
And we have a handful of large communities.
Thanks for the kind words. We try our best, and we owe a lot to @smorks@lemmy.ca for setting the right tone got the instance to start with!
I like how their admins still show up as Admins even when commenting on a post on another instance. At least in voyager they do.
Honestly probably a bug, but itâs cool.
Thatâs because youâre a user on our instance.
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Iâm partial to the one where sh.itjust.works
This is a certified sh.ithead moment
Whatâs the last instance anyone would want to defederate from? The instance which deals the most with troubleshooting technical problems. programming.dev has a lot of technical communities and also a lot of users who answer technical questions.
I also like the local experience on programming.dev. If the instance is too small, local feels empty. But, on the other hand, a lot of large instances have local feeds which are just like the all feed. I feel like programming.dev has a good balance of a distinctive yet active local feed.
I like lemmy.world as well.
When itâs up.
That holds true for any instance though and the larger instances have more work.
Thereâs no place like localhost.
Solarpunk: slrpnk.net
Loads of cool communities, tight focus
Pull up a list of Lemmy instances with 100% uptime. Thatâs not a big list. Look for a location in the U.S. you find an even smaller list. And if your monolingual and speak English bestest⌠well, then youâre in the realm of a vary small list indeed.
lemmy.ninja is second on that list for size AND speed of growth. Plus, where else are you going to find communities that teach you how to use the Fediverse to your advantage? Drop by and subscribe to the boomer shooter community⌠We all know they did it right in lo-fiâŚ
Bragging about speed and uptime is a double edged sword. It will make you popular, and then youâre going to have the same scaling and DDOS attack issues as the other big communities.
Iâm looking for US based to avoid them. Why on earth would I want to be on an instance thatâs exposed to their government requests?
This will help you find US based instances if that is what you are after.
I like lemm.ee a lot, itâs very fast and stable.
Agreed! Admittedly I am quite biased as I am an Admin, but I really enjoy the little community we hae going at lemm.ee :)
Iâm pretty new to the fediverse, but I havenât been too negatively impacted by lemmy.worldâs issues, especially in the last few weeks since the performance issues were solved.
I wouldnât be against setting up another acct on a smaller instance, but I donât want to have to maintain two sets of sfw subscriptions. If there could be a service to sync your subscriptions between instances Iâd be all over it.
lemmy.ml admins are tankies :/ I have been loving the fmhy instance
Iâm divided on how to handle this from a mod perspective. On the one hand - itâs derogatory and breaks rule #2. The OP also explicitly excluded Lemmy.ml. On the other hand, making me uncomfortable doesnât break any rules and itâs a valid comment. Thoughts?
I wouldnât take it personally if you would just feel better removing the comment? but I donât think itâs derogatory it is just what admins views are even tho tankie is a slang world maybe I should just say red fascist?
Thanks for your comment!
According to Wikipedia, tankie is a pejorative term - belittling, disparaging, or derogatory. So, while many donât agree with their views, I donât see a point to being rude or cruel. We are here to share info and not to judge each other as people. If people want to avoid Lemmy.ml due to the admins or the Lemmy project due to developersâ views, thatâs their call. I still donât see a point to being rude. We also have rule #2 which is to not be offensive.
With that reasoning, Iâm going to delete your comment. Feel free to reply again with the bit about your preferred instance.
aight, fair have a nice day
Iâm pretty sure latte.isnot.coffe admins are also tankies. Shouldâve done my research before I signed up. Maybe some day account migration will be a thing. ('Cuz Iâd like to keep my post history if I were to jump to a different instance.)
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I consider Lemmy.world as being my main home instance, and I think itâs probably one of the best. However, it does occasionally seem to have some downtime, so I have accounts on a couple of smaller instances, lemdro.id and lemmy.zip, both of which I think also work very well.
Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - thereâs no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.
I wonder whatâs the largest that defederates with the most.
I also wonder whatâs the largest that gets defederated the most.
I know both have very subjective ways to measure the metrics, but still, there must be some sort of answer.
Almost definitely beehaw
Probably exploding-heads. If not, then lemmygrad.
Why did beehaw defederate from sh.itjust.works?
Beehaw is purpose built to be a echo chamber where nobody risks seeing dissent. They defederate every instance that doesnât meet their exact censorship standards
Ah, like r/socialism not allowing any criticism of socialism. Got it.
Small ones with 100% uptime and a handful of users who donât interact with each other.
Thatâs easy: Lemmy.ninja! Small, nimble, active, and awesome!
Edit: It occurs to me I should probably list some more reasons why Lemmy.ninja is so awesome:
âActiveâ is a bit of a stretch. Although, itâs federated with the communities making content, so it doesnât really matter.
Whatâs a fair way to compare an instance with 51 accounts to one with 108,800 accounts? Average users per month relative to total user base seems pretty fair to me. The average users per month for our five biggest communities is 15.29. If I do the same calculation for your home instance, I get 7.12. So yes, weâre small, but weâre active.
âActiveâ is an adjective. You intentionally left out the active part (posts, comments). When you consider weâve existed for less the month and have 45 posts in Boomer Shooter⌠Thatâs 1.5 posts per day, our first month in existence. Thatâs activity. Thatâs active. Your cynicism not withstanding Team Red has existed for almost two weeks⌠Itâs growing faster than any of the other communities on this board⌠Because âactivity.â Really, if you understand activity and what it looks like and how it scales⌠We might believe you know what youâre talking about⌠Might.
âActiveâ is a verb. You intentionally left out the verb part (posts, comments). When you consider weâve existed for less the month and have 45 posts in Boomer Shooter⌠Thatâs 1.5 posts per day, out first month in existence. Thatâs activity. Thatâs active. Your cynicism not withstanding Team Red has existed for almost two weeks⌠Itâs growing faster than any of the other communities on this board⌠Because âactivity.â Really, if you understand activity and what it looks like and how it scales⌠We might believe you know what youâre talking about⌠Might.