• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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?

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      I don’t really understand this either. I only have 1 account on Lemmy.world. I can see why some people have a backup. For me, it doesn’t seem necessary unless I’m missing something. If the server goes down temporarily, I’m fine with just waiting for it to come back. If it goes down permanently, then I’ll go ahead and create an account on another server.

    • Mike D.@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.comM
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      I think that’s somewhat of an oversimplification. The point of the instances isn’t to be interchangeable, it’s to provide decentralization and lots of choice to Lemmy users. Lemmy itself is more or less just a protocol a bunch of different link aggregator sites are running on, each of which has its own administration style and community policy. There are lots of general-purpose Lemmy instances, lots of more niche ones, and a bunch of small/personal ones that don’t have a strong identity yet, and all of them together form the Lemmy ecosystem.

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    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.

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      midwest.social gang here as well. I don’t think there is really a best instance though. Midwest.social works for me, because I’m…. Midwest.

  • Takatakatakatakatak@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    lemmy.dbzer0.com

    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.

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    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.