Does it even make a difference? Would much appreciate some suggestions.
The Voyager app now defaults to lemmy.zip. I really like sh.itjust.works fwiw.
I also can vouch for sh.itjust.works. They have a fair defederation policy and has only gone down a couple times in the two years I’ve been using it. When it has the admin has been quick to address it and provides updates via a matrix chat.
The one downside is that some more niche domains have
degenerateddefederated (thanks autocorrect) from us due to the open enrolment we have (beehaw comes directly to mind). I recall someone linking a website that tracked what servers are federated with each other but I can’t find it now unfortunately.I went here after i read .ee is shutting down , most of the stuff i followed back there i can follow from here
We welcome you to the fold! I tried a few instances when I joined a couple years back but basically never use my alts because SJW ‘just works’ :) I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
Thanks a ton , i liked .ee culture , hope to have some of the same weirdness here too
I’m really out of the loop. Why is lemm.ee shutting down? I thought it was one of the more sizeable instances.
Admin team was too small and they couldnt find a replacements for people that were leaving , its a ungrateful job i guess ?
Is beehaw still around? I had no idea. I thought they defederated from everyone then I assumed they died out.
They only block lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, and a few small servers.
Its honestly a really pleasant place to be – I see no negativity there.
Oh no! Not beehaw!
I recall someone linking a website that tracked what servers are federated with each other but I can’t find it now unfortunately.
i think you might be referring to Fediseer?
I’m thinking between Zip and db0… I can’t decide 😁
I was too comfortable with lemme.ee (AKA less drama overall than your favorite Lemmy instance) but now I need to deal with this…
Well, I knew from the beginning, that the fediverse works this way, if any we should be grateful we were given a good window to migrate (former fmhy user here lol), and honestly it makes sense, each instance can’t last forever… Not even big sites like Reddit will.
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One thing you should do is grab your data for easy moving, you haven’t already.
Assuming you’re using the default Lemmy web UI (not Voyager, or Photon, or a mobile app, or whatever), click on your username in the top right, and select “Settings”.
On the settings page, there’s a section called “Import/Export Settings”. Click the “Export” button and let your browser download the file.
Then, when you switch instances, you can go into the same Settings page on the new instance, select the file you downloaded, and hit “Import” and you will automatically be resubscribed to the communities you subscribed to.
Wow didn’t know this was an option. Need to migrate my off of lemm.ee then. Thanks for the heads up.
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Great, I am using voyager. How do I achieve the same goal?
Voyager doesn’t have the ability to do this in the app, you will have to use a browser
https://lemmy.zip/ is the closest imo.
I see a few people recommending lemmygrad, lemmy.ml and hexbear, I don’t really think you’d enjoy those servers too much unless you are interested in leftism/communism.
also, people will assume you’re a tankie just because your name ends with .ml 😞
Only CIA.World users sauy that stuff.
cia.world gave me a giggle
problem being?
I catch strays because I’m on .ml but I’m not a tankie (I’m left libertarian like Chomsky)
Tankies are delulu
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I’m a part of Lemmy.zip for a few months now. Great server with transparent admins who post about server updates and such. It’s tech-oriented as an instance, but it’s federated, so you still have access to all other servers. I’m a computer nerd, hence why I picked it.
Yeah, lemmy.zip is great.
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lemmy.zip is good.
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Nuance doesn’t seem to be their strong suit
No tankies are authoritarian left.
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If you have a favorite community you might take a look at the instance they’re hosted out of.
Beyond that, my general advice is to sort Lemmy instances by number of active users, then pick one that’s somewhere between the 10th and 20th largest.
In the same boat, though I’ve been here for almost 2 years lol
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oh, I assumed it was a community for Dragon Ball Z fans.
Communities about Anarchism, Generative AI, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Free Software.
This sounds like me. Well, apart from the generative AI thing. Let’s see what the dominant stance on it is first
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They are pro-ai-the-technology, they’re not on board with the big Ai companies.
Power hungry admin and uber cringe ai content, pass
db0 works for me.
have you checked out the porn one? some guy posted like 20 pictures of his dick
Was that someone you?
you can join lemdro.id if you want
Sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip, not sure if shitjustworks is general purpose actually
But yeah I signed up for multiple before so id have aged accounts in case my main one went away
If you have a favorite community, move to its instance - /All is showing what all the people on your instance are subscribed to so if you’re on an instance with people you like, c/All will probably have more things you like. Also /Local shows you local posts from your instance which is cool if you’re on a theme instance.
A really small instance may have less /All content (but if you’re on any instance over 500 people it’s probably plenty)
- Sincerely, a pawb.social user
sdf.org instance is awesome.
Might i recommend lemmynsfw.com?
europe.pub
Just keep in mind you might have to instance hop again if your chosen instance goes down, but that’s OK.
Hmm. Do any of the apps allow you to seamlessly manage more than one?
Most do yes, since that’s how Lemmy works in general
The default web frontend has no such provision. If SDF is down I have to go and navigate to my backup instance like a peasant.
Maybe I should switch to an app. The only trick is that I’ll have to hack it a little bit to make sure it always launches over Tor. Unless I get on Qubes soon.
Well yeah a web front-end wouldn’t have that as it’s intrinsically tied to the instance lol
I know. I was slightly butthurt at the suggestion I’m Lemmying wrong, though. Without third party software, movement between instances isn’t seamless right now, just possible.
Oh, lol definitely didn’t mean to imply that haha, was just saying all the apps I’ve tried (I literally only use mobile to access Lemmy) have the ability to add and swap between accounts on different instances :)
I’m new to this but I’ve found Voyager has served me really well so far. I have two accounts now lemm.ee is going.
Does it provide a way to sync subscriptions across as well?
I believe so. If you click the cog wheel (settings) in voyager and scroll down you have an option to backup / restore and I would assume you could use that?
Most Lemmy apps support switching quickly between instances.
In theory, this could ease the transition when an instance closes, I guess.
In reality, the Internet is for pornography.
It presumably makes it easier to quickly switch between porn-free and porn-full subscription sets.
I say “Presumably”, because I’m above all that… here on my non-porn account.
Plus…there’s probably someone here who carefully separates their Linux Lemmys into one account and their railway and mass transit news Lemmys into another.
Good to know!
I switched to pie fed mainly because of the options including one to not blur nsfw as a lot of folks bar for nsfw is like way lower than mine.
Can piefed be accessed through voyager? I heard people talking about it as a good way to avoid all the tankies, but I couldn’t find it on the instance search within voyager.
Not yet, no.
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if your using an interface then the options may not matter I think since the app would control visuals. Again I think.
