If I’m Voyager user who’s lemm.ee profil is about to shut down, is there anything I should take into consideration? Instances to avoid because they are not supported? Tools or app features that would be helpful? Things like that.
Any advice will be appreciated, thanks.
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I would avoid lemmy.world, just to spread the risk around.
A mid sized instance like lemmy.ca, lemmy.cafe, sopuli.xyz should work well
And of course, check to see that your prospective new instance isn’t de-federated from communities that are important to you, or something else strange, like lemmy.zip allegedly geoblocks UK IP addresses.
Some large instances are defederated from lemmynsfw.com, so if those /c’s are important to you…
lemmy.ml is defedded from ani.social, so if any of those /c’s are important to you…
Several instances are defedded from hexbear.net, beehaw.org. Again, if you like any /c’s on those instances…
And of course, if an instance hosts a lot of groups that are important to you, it might be a good idea to sign up there.
Thank you. My mind spins a bit, but that’s good for the brain I heard. If I’m on the instance A that is defederated from Instance B, I won’t be able to subscribe to it at all, right? Or is it jest that it wont show on my defoult feed until i subscribe implicitly?
You won’t be able subscribe or see the posts of communities there and you also won’t see the comments left by users from those instances on any post. I like .zip because it doesn’t defederate much but instead applies a “default blocklist” for new accounts, which are removable. However, as the other commenter mentioned, .zip is not accessible in the UK due to their ridiculous online liability laws.
If someone subscribed beforehand to content from Instance B, it’ll still be there on your instance A’s cache, but there will be no new content after defederation, if that makes any sense.
I think I understood it, but there is no way of telling if I’m right.
For example, there was an instance named lemmy.film that isn’t there anymore, but you can still find content that was posted on it on all but the newest instances.
Do you know what the deal with beehaw is? I know about the others you mentioned.
I misremembered: It’s beehaw that defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
That’s bad news because of the large numbers of communities and users on .world and sjw
If you’re a voyager user avoid piefed as it’s not yet supported, although apparently on the roadmap.
If you’re in the UK you can’t use lemmy.zip due to the bs OSA.
Aside from that just check the the instance you’re moving to federates with the communities you subscribe to.
Thank you. Are any instances known for federating with basically everything (beside absolutely extreme stuff maybe)? Something that I can take blind with reasonable expectation that I don’t loose much?
If you like science, mander is a great instance that is broadly federated. And you get a cool science feed on your local filter to boot.
I moved to lemmy.zip for this reason, nothing is defederated except the CSAM stuff. On lemmy.zip by default hexbear and lemmygrad blocked on the user level, you can unblock them in the settings
You can see it here:
lemmy.one is also shutting down shortly after, FYI.
You can add your new profile to display name of your old lemm.ee account. So you and people can distinguish them.
If you don’t want to see content created by tankies, you can join lemmy.cafe which defederates from lemmy.ml
Or if you want to avoid using software created by tankies, try piefed.social
What are tankies?
Tankies are those who support authoritarian governments including the CCP and Russia. Lemmy devs (also the admins of lemmy.ml) are known to be tankies.
Noted. Thanks.
Bad news for you: Lemmy was created and is maintained by “tankies”
But don’t be so choosy with your allies, or you’ll find yourself standing alone.
Also ml has many active communities that have nothing to do with politics
That’s why I am using PieFed now. I don’t see any evidence of PieFed devs being tankies.
