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ngl I may prefer lemm.ee, just saying

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not a cult, I swear! :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

db0 , i really like your server tbh but my monyet.cc is serving me currently well the fact that you have a photon , tensorrect etc as alternate frontends is kinda cool as well :p thanks man , we as a community appreciate your instance and its c/piracy -fellow pirate

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Shhh, don't tell

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Hehe yep

Edit: and i just realised i posted this from my other account and not my dbzer0 account lol. But point still stands

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Was waiting for an instance admin lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

He's right. No bias, I swear.

[–] cheese_greater 3 points 9 months ago

I dunno why but everytime I see that, I misread it as SoPopular ;)

[–] Fake4000 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy.world for me.

It's generic, has a good list of communities, and the mods are legends with updates and transparency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I personally prefer using Lemm.ee, mostly because it's the instance I started off with, but the problem with that instance is that it's dry lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

lemmy.ohaa.xyz, cause its mine :D

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

now THATS the spirit!

[–] hperrin 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is it weird to not have a favorite?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

lemmy.sdf.org when it works; federation there is kinda fucked right now, so ~~I'm on lemmy.today for now.~~ I accidentally posted it from SDF. Comment if you can see this.

SDF has an extensive track record (* much longer than I have been alive*) of providing systems for the public good. If federation gets fixed (and it probably will eventually), I'll be back on SDF.

Additionally, I generally don't want the set of people I can connect with to be technically limited, like at all. Yes that includes "all the bad people" according to your (and my) individual worldview. If they're going to exist, I would prefer to have advanced notice of the danger they pose. If you suck, I will block you.

I'm not against moderated or curated instances, and for most people that is probably the way to go, but it's not what I personally need. Yes, this means that I occasionally get wild shit when I choose to scroll through All. Yes, that means I get various shades of genocide apologists and weird bigots, again when I choose not to browse by Local or Subscribed. That's why I'm subscribed to a bunch of cool, moderated communities. I choose the content I see.

That is the approach I prefer for myself. Again, I understand that it's not for everyone.

As far as instances where I'm not (yet) a member, lemmy.dbzer0.com is my favorite by far. Also while I don't have any communities on their instance, the startrek.website people seem to always have something interesting to say.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Personally I am pretty bias towards lemm.ee, mostly because it's the instance I joined when starting out. I mostly do all because i personally don't prefer using local communities. Don't really care about federation, just like using lemmy either way

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

As an American I prefer lemmy.ca

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lemm.ee. I like the defederation policy, and in my experience the community and its admins have always been very responsive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

lemm.ee fans RISE UP!!!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

SLRPNK best instance

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I like mine because it is mine :)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Lemm.ee seems pretty okay.

I don't care much about instances though, I just use Lemmy like it's Reddit and scroll through the home page and my subscriptions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

mander.xyz is my favorite. Love and subscribed to the most of the communities it have.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

sh.itjust.works is the best name for a instance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

lemmy.blahaj.zone because im biased

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

My main is reddthat.com

Clear and open admins; smaller instance with room to grow; it's my personal favorite

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That's the spirit!

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[–] jelloeater85 3 points 9 months ago

I like .world abit, but I'm a touch biased 🀣

[–] Rooki 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Every instance is good because every instance can interact with many other instances with comments, posts etc. So you arent really locked into one instance. its the magic of federation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I'd be very careful with those words given that lemmy.world is rather trigger happy with defederations.

It is almost impossible to completely censor away content and anyone can bridge blocks by creating a new intermediary instance where they can view content of mutually blocked instances but it's not like you see all the fediverse content on any instance.

Matter of fact you just need to look at the blocklists of most instances to get a pretty good guess at the other, less legal, Fediverse out there running almost in parallel to the popular one. But since almost every instance has those blocked you don't see any of that shit in your feeds. Highly censorship resistant, but ultimately an individual is still at the mercy of their instance admins.

[–] Here4CatPics 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Is it possible to switch instances? I wanna explore and I just randomly picked one when I started

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You’ve just got to make a new account on a different instance. Several of the apps make it easy to switch between multiple accounts on different instances.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My favourite instance is lemy.lol because it uses 0.19 rc version, has short domain name, and nice UI theme, and that's why I choosed it for my account

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I agree, I wish lemm.ee was update to date smh, I'll think about making an account there

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