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?

  • chrisbitAEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yes, has been for maybe 48 hours now and I have seeded their popular communities.

    • kd637_mi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      42·
      1 year ago

      Hell yeah, I’m concerned that if SDF decides to block instance they will include Lemmygrad and Hexbear so I might make an account on yours. I assume you’re defederated from stuff like exploding heads, rammy, and burggitt?

      Actually just checked your list, perfect blocked instances list and absolutely sick instance theme. Love it. I’m in 😎

      • chrisbitAEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, all of those are blocked. You can see the current list here

        • kd637_miEnglish
          21·
          1 year ago

          Alright, I’m here. Also I would recommend including a link to lemmyverse.net as well as the feddit browser in the sidebar. Feddit hasn’t shown some Lemmygrad stuff for me before.

          • chrisbitAEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Welcome! And thanks, good tip. I’ll try and update it later today.

            • kd637_miEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              Also I’d recommend blocking the lemmit.online instance, it’s just bot spam. I block the bot itself so it doesn’t worry me but for newer uses it can flood the all feed.