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.
Users voted to defed from exploding heads in the agora community.
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.
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?
Lemmy.world is noticeably slower and prone to have issues compared to the smaller instances for me.
the instance I’m on seems to be performant enough :)
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.
Fuck Lemmygrad, loud authoritarians. There’s no room for dictators on the fediverse.
That’s lemmygrad.ml, not lemmy.ml. Don’t confuse things.
Also, I would take an alive fediverse and some communities I can ignore and not subscribe to than a dead fediverse in the hands of the corporations. See what Google did to XMPP. See reddit. See twitter. See threads…
Edit: this is an incredibly good read https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
Thanks for sharing this, I wasn’t aware of this yet
lemmy.ml looks cool, I couldn’t create an account with them recently but I had a two year old account with a federated site that should work iirc.
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I’ve seen the post about comments/posts ‘critical of China’ being removed - the actual posts in question were low information, misleading and in many cases also denying reality. One guy denied we’re in a (soft) cold war even. I think the mods there need to be clearer about the rules though, and criticism of any country’s actions should be allowed. They left the post up btw.
And I’m actually okay with discussions about geopolitics being controlled. Those tend to bring out the worst wierdos from the old place.
