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People should really consider joining the smaller instances, because as things stand right now the main ones have thousands of users (and still growing rapidly, causing problems) while many smaller ones have just a few dozen users but probably enough hardware and network capacity to get hundreds more.
Anyhow, my instance has not gone down yet so feel welcomed to join https://lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz/ if you're iterested :>
The problem with small instances is nobody knows how long they'd be around. I wish there was a migration tool so that if that ever happens you could easily move your account and all the messages over.
@UrbenLegend @zeerooth Not to mention you're not exactly going to get much content out of smaller instances, especially if you're coming from Reddit.
And as for bigger instances, you never know if the admins are going to pull some shady crap you may not like. When you get exponential growth it creates problems.
Federation should solve the content issue. You can search for all comments, posts, etc. from other instances that your instance federates with. Just make sure you select "All" in the search filter instead of "Local".
Join-Lemmy has actually a nice list of instances, and they do try to take the load a bit in mind. Many people seem to switch to lemmy.world now, but that could mean you could face more stability issues in the future gain.
Beehaw.org also looks like a nice instance. They host a lot of popular communities, but they do require an application to join. That would probably keep them safe from getting overloaded.
It's worth keeping in mind that Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml today, so you won't see posts from either of these instances if you choose to go with them.
They did? What's the reasoning for that?
EDIT: Nvm, found the post: https://beehaw.org/post/567170
That's ridiculous. If people are that sensitive and need to feel absolute safe to post some shits on an anonymous platform, then they shouldn't use the Internet at all.
You’re saying that everyone everywhere must always listen to everyone else at all times even when they’re being dicks, and anything less makes them pussies and they shouldn’t be allowed to communicate at all?
If they have a strong community and want to cut ties with some others, that’s cool they can do that. That’s the system working.
The fuck are you on? If you see contents you don't like, simply downvote or ignore and get on with your life, not isolation themselves, defeating the purpose of a fediverse, just so that they can have a wholesome 100 echo chamber.
im using sopuli.xyz it works great
I’m the admin at https://honeyhive.social we’re still up and coming but the whole idea was to make a general use instance to take off some of the strain that the big instances are feeling