Lemmy.World

Currently it's recommending sopuli.xyz, an instance i've never heard of that requires applications to join, and beehaw, an instance that defederated from the other large instances.

That seems like a very poor front page for lemmy to get people to actually join and interact. I think a lot would probably think it goes against the philosophy to recommend a big instance like lemmy.world. But that's the least confusing to new people

Right now, we're the number one recommended instance to join on the join-lemmy.org site, and we are also one of 3 recommended instances in the awesome-lemmy-instances page. We may be small, but so far we're doing great!

Hi! I'm new to lemmy. I think the join-lemmy instances list is a great resource, though I've noticed that the instance I recently set up does not appear in the list. Is listing automatic, and in that case what should I do to make sure it appears? And if it's not automatic, who should we contact to request to be included in the list?

Thank you!

Lemmy is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social news aggregation and discussion forums. The site has similar features to Reddit or Hacker News.

Lemmy instances are run by a large number of individuals or corporations, each with their own content moderation policies. Users on individual instances submit posts with links, text, or pictures to user-created boards called “communities”.

Communities are user created and local to each instance, however they may be posted to from other instances. Using a system of upvotes and downvotes users can influence what content appears at the top of the main feeds and of each community. Moderation is conducted by admins of each instance and moderators of specific communities.

Lemmy is part of the Fediverse which allows users from other platforms to interact with posts created by Lemmy users. ActivityPub is the protocol used to allow Lemmy instances to operate as a federated social network and allows users to interact with compatible platforms including Mastodon and PeerTube.

If your instance doesn't have a description, please edit it in your instance settings (It will be the Description field, above the sidebar), and we'll pick that info up on our next update of join-lemmy

Be aware that lemmy.glasgow.social is a mostly bot instance too.