The Fediverse is huge and overwhelming to a newcomer, with many different types and each with servers to pick from. Which ones would you suggest checking out or avoiding?
I was wondering why we suddenly had so many astroturfers, shills and bots creeping in and fucking up all the conversations. It used to just be dumb but earnest tankies, now we got all kinds up in this bitch.
Corpo trash can’t stand wrongthink
I live in the PNW. I picked an instance in the PNW. Sometimes I see local news, and often I read comments from people within a few hour drive. It’s nice to have a small, local community here, while still having access to the rest of the world together. So I guess recommend picking the largest instance in your region if you don’t have any other preferences.
I had no idea this was a local instance. Neat!
!main@sh.itjust.works they are very new-user friendly, diaspora: idfk its dead, mastodon: official instance, peertube: peertube.wtf with official app to do federation stuff
peertube: peertube.wtf with official app to do federation stuff
I assume you can login into it via GrayJay as well
never used grayjay to begin with, used different apps for different fediverse stuff
I think the best thing is to choose one and hang around and if you like where you land then go forward but once you learn how to look them over and what makes them different then evaluate and decide on one and make a new account that becomes your main.
As far as I understand, lemmy instances are sort of a community with communities inside. It seems that each isntance has their own like minded userbase. .world has basich mix of everyone due to popularity, .ml holds strong beliefs politically, blahaj.zone is more progressive in gender identity, piefed.social is more mainstream decentralized instance. And of course there are more I didn’t mention.
I am on dbzer0 because I am into selfhosting and sailing the seas. It fits me well. Tied to one instance doesn’t stop me from engaging on other instances except the ones I blacklisted.
Check the instances and their descriptions and find something that fits you.
db0 and sh. are my viiiibbbbbee
db0 is also pro-GenAI, which seems unfortunate to me.
You can do what I do and just block the genAI art comms.
No harm, no foul, I just am not interested in the content.
While I can’t say for certain, I would strongly suspect that a lot of the people in those comms are self hosting their LLMs/Image generators, if that makes you feel any better.
But uh, there are a variety of nuanced stances on LLMs and such, amongst the other m@teys I’ve talked with.
Its… not like we’re all super duper no holds barred put AI in everything advocates.
A lot of us are… quite a lot closer to ‘Butlerian Jihad NOW’, lol.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/ has some pretty unique content, even from the normal fediverse. I like the users there. See !funhole@lemmy.sdf.org and !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
When its up peertube.wtf is great for discovering peertube videos. I use it to find things to post on !peertube@lemmy.world
I like to spend my time on piefed. Its my favorite “threadiverse” software atm. I spent snd contributed code to lemmy for about a year but jumped over to piefed. Its fun and fedi interop was better at the time.
For everything else fediverse.party for fun software and instances!
Just FYI everyone, this spike is sort of a glitch and its quite obvious just from looking at how steep the curve is. It all comes from nodebb which is a forum software and i guess they switched on federation on 11.01.2026 which gave us this magical bump.
They are real users probably, but what i mean is that this wasnt a rush of new users, but just old (mostly inactive) users that were never considered part of the fediverse until now.
Still increases footprint/grants more credibility to the Fediverse, which I think is a good thing. It just won’t really impact the daily experience here
I’m on Lemmy.zip and someone said that I would fit into that community. Would I recommend it? Yes.
Zip is awesome! I switched over to db0, but simply because of a technical glitch on .zip like a year ago now, which was rapidly fixed by the admin… and I was too impatient to withstand not being able to post, lol.
A+ instance imo.
What’s awesome about it?
Great head admin, good variety of local communities, great users?
I also recommend lemmy.zip or piefed.zip
I would recommend use https://join-lemmy.org/ it suggest a generic instance and also lets search specific instances.
Hard to take that list seriously.
World is missing, and ML, Hexbear, and Lemmygrad are the top promoted servers. What a joke.
Go for a smaller European one, the one I’m on is in Finland. Me, I like Finland, the fins are sexy. And why only use one instance, you can have a user on several, that way
you can downvote your own posts and discuss with a person that is as intelligent as yourself (mainly because it actually is you!) I mean:you can try out the audience and communities, which are different on all servers.it seems like lemmy.today is decent, especially since there are no blocked instances. i moved from lemmy.sdf.org recently since their servers were down too often.
There was a server hiccup for about a day or so once in the last 2 years, but I’ve had no other issues.
I’m torn between wanting to tell people, and trying to keep it to myself to hold off the enshitification for as long as possible.
Lemmy.ml ofc. “Tankie” instance made by the actual lemmy devs.
I joined lemmy.ml after the reddit APIcalypse because it was the largest one at the time, about 3 years ago. The “tankie fascist” thing has been very interesting, I see it as a very effective tool for groupthink people to out themselves on. I’m a soft-leaning socialist if anything, not very politically involved, but the angry emotional groupthink people actually gives zero fucks about what I think. They just see .ml, decide in their own heads what I think and what “team” I’m on, and call me a tankie fascist! It’s hilarious actually, I don’t even have to say anything and those type of thinkers just present themselves for me to block. And thank god for how easy it is to curate Lemmy with blocks!
Over time it has become a very cool place with many views and interesting people from different paths of life discussing everything quite civilly.
I especially like the meta posts about inter-instance squabbling. They’re goldmines for my block list.
I mean, I’m an ‘anarkiddie’ according to actual tankies, but I don’t broadly discriminate against .ml users, most of them are great!
… but, a lot of .ml powermods do things like declare the Xi Poohbear meme to be inherently racist, even though it was literally created by Chinese netizens.
Or, god help you if you attempt to discuss the Holodomor.
Fellow tankie fascist here! Don’t try too hard to appeal to the fediverse, you know we have a mission to spread Marx’s word every waking hour to people that will probably have influence in the real world at Lemmy.world.
I don’t even know what Marx said! lol
Lemmy.ml, iirc, stopped being promoted a couple years ago because it’s kind of the experimental instance of Lemmy. The developers of this instance themselves shared the idea for new users is not to be here, and use other instances to free up a bit of the server resources, but older accounts like mine, well, we are still around.
stopped being promoted a couple years ago because it’s kind of the experimental instance of Lemmy
No, it’s because your admins are genocide deniers that want Ukraine to be taken over by Russia.
Most of Lemmy doesn’t want to be associated with that. Hell, that’s a large part of why PieFed was developed
Great! I found the announcement at this thread, if you want to know the argued reasons for this policy.
