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?

  • skookumasfrig@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    11 months ago

    Seriously, what’s the difference? If you are accessing and contributing to the same data pool, what’s the difference besides the UI?

    I haven’t used kbin, so I haven’t seen the difference yet.

    • kspatlas@artemis.camp
      3·
      11 months ago

      kbin is a lot more than just “a different lemmy interface”, it also has an entire microblogs like system that allows you to make mastodon-like posts, and the reputation system is different (upvotes and downvotes don’t affect how high up a post is shown, boosts are a kbin feature that does affect reputation, and also shows it to anyone who follows you)

    • AngrilyEatingMuffins@kbin.social
      3·
      11 months ago

      we have access to mastodon feeds, as well. we can also block entire instances. the default site works very, very well as a PWA, the base interface has more settings options.