Well, you can try mine, https://lemmings.world. It's federated with the bigger instances so you won't miss any content. It's well maintained and supported. And I plan on maintaining it long-term. Also it has Lemmings in the name.
this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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How are you defining "good" here? Off the top of my head I would say
- lemm.ee
- lemmy.sdf.org
- lemmy.one
- sh.itjust.works
This is a great list of general-purpose sort of "next step down in size from lemmy.world"-instances.
Well, by "good" I meant general purpose, no NSFW, federates with bigger instances, consitent uptime .. etc.
My instance (https://lemmings.world) fits most of that!
- general purpose
- federates with bigger instances (I even have a bot running that's subscribing to popular communities across Lemmy instances so the All feed is full of content and really comparable to the biggest instances)
- consistent uptime (I have 100% according to lemmyverse.net and 98.93% according to fediverse observer)
- the only criteria that doesn't fit is that I allow NSFW, but it has to be clearly tagged as NSFW, meaning you can simply disable NSFW on your profile
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sh.itjust.works is pretty popular.
Not a small instance. It has over 20,000 users.
Yeah, I wasn't sure what OP meant by "small." I mean, it's user base is less than a fifth the size of .world, so maybe it counts.
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I moved to lemme.ee. i find the rules and regulations and reason for defederation in lemmy.world is so insane. and performance was also not good on lemmy.world. many users have made accounts on the server. Lemme.ee is fast and didn't have any downtime till now.
In what country is lemm.ee hosted?
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I have my tiny instance that currently has 4 users, with me being the most active. I update Lemmy regularly, upgrade and manage resources as needed, and even do server management via my phone when I need to. Federated with all of the big ones so there’s no lack in content and I’m always scouring for new communities to sub to. The only rule I have (aside from the ones stated in the rules page) is no NSFW. It’s mostly a CYA measure for myself.
Plus it has a fun URL!
Tried lemmy.world and lemmy.one but they were both down frequently last week. Bounced to lemm.ee and it's been great so far. The admin is knowledgeable and cares about hosting.
lemmy.world is more often down than not
DDOS attacks have been hitting fediverse sights. LW is combating it. Once they lock it down the DDOS attacks will turn to the smaller servers.
If only lemmy.world would invest into something like stormwall, ddos-guard or nexuspipe. Cloudflare is complete dogshit against most modern ddos attacks (unfortunately).
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This is not true. C'mon.
Does it go down? Yes. Annoying. Has it been down longer than it's been up? Of course not.
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At least it's a motivator to diversify to smaller instances.
I like mtgzone.com, but it might not be for everyone
Oh, Magic the gathering! I thought Marjorie Taylor Greene and was agreeing with you that it might not be for everyone.
Trying to imagine who would like her enough to make that. Conservatives only see her as a useful tool.
Everyone should support small instances. It would be horrible if the entire lemmy network consists of like 10 large instances. And if people don't use the small instances, that will probably happen after a year or two.
Support all the people who has an instance and wants to contribute to the Lemmy network.
Go sign up right now, if only to have an alternate account when needed.
I've been enjoying Lemmy.blahaj.zone, though it's more niche given that it's an instance for trans people
We need a basic set of criteria to vet new small instances as minimally viable, what are they?
Just spitballing a few...
- At least federated with large instances X, Y and Z...
- X or above uptime percentage
- no more than X ratio of users to posts
- clearly stated content standards and a functional nazi/fascist/misinformation moderation effort
What do you think the list should be?
This table only covers some of your criteria, but it's pretty large. It's a good source for finding another home instance.
https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances/blob/main/README.md
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I'm liking lemmy.one. federates with big instances, rarely downtime, and downvotes are disabled.
The one I'm on is really good. There's been technical difficulties, but the admin is great.
Fediverse.observer is a good resource for sorting through and finding different instances for all types of activitypub platforms. There are pages for Lemmy and Kbin among plenty of others. That's how I found the instance I'm currently on, and I'm pretty happy with it.
I just opened an account at https://sh.itjust.works after lemmy.world admins went berserk today. So far so good.
What did they do?
Seems super reasonable to me.
At first glace, sure, but when you look into it deeper it's a cowardly move. For one, Hexbear made it perfectly clear they expect their users to abide by the rules of the instances they visit and not cause trouble. Also,
"Defederation should only be considered as a last resort . . . We made the decision to preemptively defederate"
Along with their stated goal to (emphasis mine)
Provide a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all members; regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, political affiliation, or other similar characteristic. Human comes first.
Not to mention how long they dragged their heels defederating from the fascists at exploding heads yet are preemptively defederating from hexbear. And to top it all off there's loads of comments calling hexbear users "Russian bot farms" and "a cesspool for genocidal lunatics." The whole thing is ignorant as hell.
On the other hand it was enough to convince me to switch away from lemmy.world, so there's that.
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Meh. Sounds like a bunch of tankie bullshit.
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Good is subjective, given I can see all of the same content, and more.
Also far fewer issues since I don't have to support 100k users here.
For a very small instance(10 users), you can try mine at endlesstalk.org. It also has multiple frontends hosted like lemmy.world and many others.
Otherwise I would recommend lemm.ee, lemmy.sdf.org and lemmy.zip
What do you mean by "just as good".
It really depends on if you mean amount of content, or are ok with there only being maybe one post a day but that being a quality post worthy of discussion.
Í want to hear about both to be honest.
There's quite a lot, you can check out join-lemmy.org for a solid list. Mine is open as well, but reading/writing isn't everyones thing
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