Hello everyone,

Based on the recent instability of Lemmy.world, a lot of people have been wondering whether they should move to another instance.

I used to look at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and recommend people to pick a generalist instance with as much users as possible (using the 1m column), usually

Of course, there are also the regional options

And of course, the thematic instances

I used to recommend the most populated instances, as we know that All depends on users subscribed from the instance.

However, now with the introduction of the Lemmy Community Seeder (https://github.com/Fmstrat/lcs), which

tells your instance to pull the top communities and the communities with the top posts from your favorite instances

do you think this should still apply? I have seen promising instances (high uptime, already on 18.4 that was released today)

Would you recommend users to join those as well, assuming that the admins use the LCS to populate the All feed? Most of us remember the Vlemmy.net disappearance, and it’s difficult to tell users to join small instances based on good faith, but at the same time, every instance needs to start somewhere, and they should be given a chance.

What do you think?

  • tron@lemm.ee
    34·
    1 year ago

    I should clarify my issue is with instance admins deciding what I get to see. I block plenty of communities as well and I do see the spam problem. I think the solution is letting users block instances by themselves. I would probably block both lemmygrad and explodingheads as they are both propaganda instances but that should be my decision, not anybody elses.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      They don’t pick for you…

      You pick your instance.

      The issue with some instances is you can try to block their communities, but they make 100s of communities that post the same shit.

      So it makes sense a large amount of people want an instance where they dont have to do that, and they don’t have to worry about running into those idiots in other places.

      No one is making you join a specific instance. Or stopping you from even making your own