Lemmy.ca is the best. Large local instance, great uptime, good admins.
And we have a handful of large communities.
Thanks for the kind words. We try our best, and we owe a lot to @smorks@lemmy.ca for setting the right tone got the instance to start with!
❤️
I like how their admins still show up as Admins even when commenting on a post on another instance. At least in voyager they do.
Honestly probably a bug, but it’s cool.
That’s because you’re a user on our instance.
So far I like it. And lemmy world. But are my go to.
I’m partial to the one where sh.itjust.works
This is a certified sh.ithead moment
What’s the last instance anyone would want to defederate from? The instance which deals the most with troubleshooting technical problems. programming.dev has a lot of technical communities and also a lot of users who answer technical questions.
I also like the local experience on programming.dev. If the instance is too small, local feels empty. But, on the other hand, a lot of large instances have local feeds which are just like the all feed. I feel like programming.dev has a good balance of a distinctive yet active local feed.
There’s no place like localhost.
I like lemm.ee a lot, it’s very fast and stable.
Agreed! Admittedly I am quite biased as I am an Admin, but I really enjoy the little community we hae going at lemm.ee :)
Pull up a list of Lemmy instances with 100% uptime. That’s not a big list. Look for a location in the U.S. you find an even smaller list. And if your monolingual and speak English bestest… well, then you’re in the realm of a vary small list indeed.
lemmy.ninja is second on that list for size AND speed of growth. Plus, where else are you going to find communities that teach you how to use the Fediverse to your advantage? Drop by and subscribe to the boomer shooter community… We all know they did it right in lo-fi…
Bragging about speed and uptime is a double edged sword. It will make you popular, and then you’re going to have the same scaling and DDOS attack issues as the other big communities.
If we get to be even half the size of Lemmy.world, I will eat my hat. But the same thought does cross my mind every time I invite another disillusioned Redditor on board.
I’m looking for US based to avoid them. Why on earth would I want to be on an instance that’s exposed to their government requests?
This will help you find US based instances if that is what you are after.
That’s easy: Lemmy.ninja! Small, nimble, active, and awesome!
Edit: It occurs to me I should probably list some more reasons why Lemmy.ninja is so awesome:
- 100.00% uptime!
- Certified spambot-free
- We work every day to help new users learn the ropes of Lemmy and find content on your instances to subscribe to
- We have strict but fair rules
- We’re never satisfied with the site and always work to improve it
“Active” is a bit of a stretch. Although, it’s federated with the communities making content, so it doesn’t really matter.
What’s a fair way to compare an instance with 51 accounts to one with 108,800 accounts? Average users per month relative to total user base seems pretty fair to me. The average users per month for our five biggest communities is 15.29. If I do the same calculation for your home instance, I get 7.12. So yes, we’re small, but we’re active.
“Active” is an adjective. You intentionally left out the active part (posts, comments). When you consider we’ve existed for less the month and have 45 posts in Boomer Shooter… That’s 1.5 posts per day, our first month in existence. That’s activity. That’s active. Your cynicism not withstanding Team Red has existed for almost two weeks… It’s growing faster than any of the other communities on this board… Because “activity.” Really, if you understand activity and what it looks like and how it scales… We might believe you know what you’re talking about… Might.
“Active” is a verb. You intentionally left out the verb part (posts, comments). When you consider we’ve existed for less the month and have 45 posts in Boomer Shooter… That’s 1.5 posts per day, out first month in existence. That’s activity. That’s active. Your cynicism not withstanding Team Red has existed for almost two weeks… It’s growing faster than any of the other communities on this board… Because “activity.” Really, if you understand activity and what it looks like and how it scales… We might believe you know what you’re talking about… Might.
I like lemmy.world as well.
When it’s up.
That holds true for any instance though and the larger instances have more work.
Solarpunk: slrpnk.net
Loads of cool communities, tight focus
I’m pretty new to the fediverse, but I haven’t been too negatively impacted by lemmy.world’s issues, especially in the last few weeks since the performance issues were solved.
I wouldn’t be against setting up another acct on a smaller instance, but I don’t want to have to maintain two sets of sfw subscriptions. If there could be a service to sync your subscriptions between instances I’d be all over it.
Own selfhosted with encrypted hdd & nvme, and hidden via multiple reverse proxies 😀
[ Privacy & Piracy & NSFW Friendly ]
I consider Lemmy.world as being my main home instance, and I think it’s probably one of the best. However, it does occasionally seem to have some downtime, so I have accounts on a couple of smaller instances, lemdro.id and lemmy.zip, both of which I think also work very well.
I’m on feddit.de - I was on lemmy.ml before but unfortunately the default instance is getting hammered pretty hard both by real users and apparently also DDOS attacks now.
Feddit.de is hosted close to me and therefore very quick and also reliable. It’s one of the biggest lemmy instances but small enough to be well moderated.
Small ones with 100% uptime and a handful of users who don’t interact with each other.
Lemmy.nz is a nice small country instance with one rule, don’t be a dick.
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