1y ago

What are your favorite Lemmy instances?

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literature.cafe , but something happened today and they're temp shut down judging by the web page :(
hopefully they'll be back up and restored soon, the VM seems to have gotten hacked.
- Oh I liked this one. I wonder what happened.
  
  At first I thought it was a minor thing. But it's still down. Any news?

if i knew, im browsing by all always
- That's still instance dependant - I'm on a small instance and my all feed isn't that good because there aren't many others subscribing to niche communities etc.

Startrek.website
- Me when I read OP's question:

The one that I'm using. Focuses heavilly on retro tech.
sdf.org also hosts a multitude of other services, including a public SSH server.
Also doesn't defederate with any servers and (from what I know) no servers defederated with it.
- Came for the lemmy, stayed for the UNIX :-)

The ones that are stable with active administrators, but personally, mine.

jlai.lu because it allows to simply use the "Local" feed to browse most French related communities, while still being able to browse the rest of the Threadiverse using the "Subscribed" or "All" feeds.
To me, that's a huge improvement to Reddit, where it allows language-based and topic-based communities to have dedicated places which are easier to explore.

Some interest specific instances that I haven't seen here so far:
slrpnk.net
fanaticus.social
mander.xyz
There's also a brand new currently unfederated instance for legal professionals at links.esq.social
- Slrpnk.net is the best instance. All other instances have inferior potassium.

The one that doesn't allow advertisements or rampant bots.

.world, .film, .ee

lemmy.basedcount.com and lemmy.dbzer0.com are both interesting.

Sopuli.xyz is a Finnish instance that has a great, tight knit little homebrewing community that was such a nice change from reddit's homebrewing ("cider isnt really brewing/50 gallons minimum batch size") cider ("we're less for homebrewing and more for finding ciders") and mead ("you dumb fuck how are you not normalizing distilled water for mineral consistency and developing your own yeast nutrients? My latest brew has been clarifying longer than you've been in this hobby") communities.

Mine!
- So, what makes lob.lgbt unique?
  Edit: this is a genuine question btw. Not trying to be an ass
  
  Mostly a focus on LGBTQ+ people and our family and friends and allies. It’s not really all that unique especially in the Fediverse. But it is mine!

None, it's all 1 big network. Each instance is a different flavor of the same thing.
Tangent: I don't understand why existing in an instance somehow makes a user any different than anyone else. Yet, I hear people saying things like "typical lemm.ml user" or crap about Hexbear users. It's like people are taking the ideologies of the instance owners and labeling anyone in it to have the same ideologies. Where did this come from?
- Well those instances are very specific and you can assume a lot about the users who signed up there. Other instances seem to have normal spread of people.
  
  Bias is real, does not demand bigotry, and is sometimes existentially beneficial.
- Instances have specific signup rules, moderation strategies, and accepted speech/posts.
  It's ok to not understand things, but be informed that instances literally materially differentiates users. The impacts are internal and external facing.
  
  I signed up to lemmy.ml because it was the "main" one. It had more content than any other instances, and it was the first result on Google search
- There’s a little insight into human psychology provided by this whole decentralisation thing. People tend to get pretty tribal about which instance they’re on pretty quickly. It’s obviously pretty silly most of the time, but that’s human nature. In the end I think it counts toward a flaw of decentralisation, though not a fatal one … a lot of people don’t align strongly with any particular instance or their admins and moderation choices and the tribal baggage that comes along with it all, they’re more interested in the whole network … and yet we’re all forced to pick an instance because that’s the architecture.
- Strong ideologically driven instances may be more invested in spreading the gospel, so depending on the frequency of posts that populate /c/all and topics that garner a lot of attention it can lead to certain instances standing out compared to more generic ones. It's kind of becomes like someone sporting a sports jersey versus others that might just be more generic clothing as an example.
  Maybe better example might be like how people assume things by the bumper stickers people have on their cars, or signs and flags they choose to display in front of their houses compared to the general neighborhood. There's some passion that may be assumed.
  
  Having 6 accounts on 6 instances Id just like to point out that whatever instance Im currently on is the best instance on lemmy. I am poly-situationally-tribalistic.
- It’s like people are taking the ideologies of the instance owners and labeling anyone in it to have the same ideologies. Where did this come from?
  I generally agree, but hexbear exists mostly as a place where r/chapoTrapHouse users went after it got banned from reddit, so it tends to have a specific type of user. (not that I agree with de-federating them, despite not being exactly aligned with them politically)

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