Start your own instance. Then it's the best™

I went with sh.itjust.works personally, mostly because I liked the name, it's been good so far

Lemm.ee has been working well for me, but I haven’t been paying too much attention to the admins. I mostly left lemmy.world because of the downtime

The vast majority of comments in here seem to be focused on the attitude of "why you trying to start shit"

But legitimately from an outside presiding perspective, which instances have people found to be decent, there seems to be a heap of Lemmy instances, each with their own rules and vibes, so what's the go?

I've chosen lemm.ee from the beginning. I like it so far.

My own 💅

Interesting point to say they are spez-like while they just want to comply with local regulations

This is new territory for most instance admin and a volunteer effort. If you haven't already, I'd encourage you to consider sharing constructive feedback with them as a first step instead.

As for finding new instances, it's generally recommended to visit https://join-lemmy.org/instances.

The real answer is to have multiple accounts spread around on different servers just in case one server goes tits up or bans content you like to see. You should be treating accounts here as having a limited shelf life anyway for good internet hygiene purposes.

lemmy.dbzer0.com, this was founded by key people at r/piracy.

I think it depends what you are looking for but I think a solid rule of thumb is to look at what communities you interact with the most and see what instances they belong to.

If piracy is specifically what you are after I'd go for dbzer0. If it's NSFW content that kind of complicates things.

I decided to give leminal.space a try and I like it. The admins are nice and quick to deal with issues and make posts about changes in the instance.

Inb4 post gets removed

I was already considering switching over to kbin fully just because they're set up to interact with both Lemmy instances and Mastodon. Unfortunately the Mastodon side still feels a bit janky, but I'm hoping that'll change as time goes on.

Definitely not going to stay with an instance that pre-emptively bends over for corporate interests. That's one of the biggest reasons why I'm shifting away from Reddit in the first place.

I'm just happy to find a reddit alternative. Reddit decided to ban my account because I had two linked accounts and both accounts made a comment on the same post accidentally, because I forgot my main profile has already commented.. I got perma banned for what they said was cheating the system?!?! I made a two new emails and two new accounts and instantly banned on those too... Dude I was and am pissed, because my accounts were four years old with great interactions and subs... With no recourse to appeal... Found Lemmy.world by chance, today.. and so far I am really happy with it. I saw that the app Boost will be coming out with its own app to host lemmt and I am all for it.

Not "new" for me but I've been happy with lemmy.zip so far. Otherwise I'd be looking at https://sh.itjust.works or just work my way down the list at https://lemmyverse.net/?order=active

lewy.world

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Wow. People are salty that lemmy.world wants to stay legal? Interesting...

Is this because of the recent defederation from piracy instances?

This instance is a "open to everyone" instance.

lemm.ee is pretty great (may be biased), you should try kbin.earth, its compatible with lemmy!