I’m looking for a new instance since lemm.ee is closing by the end of the month. What’s a good instance to be on these days?

I’m looking for a instance with the fewest trolls, bots, and anyone that likes to take things to the extremes.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
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    8 days ago

    I’ve had a great experience here on fedia.io. It’s a smaller instance, and it is running Mbin instead of Lemmy, but everything federates over so you get the same content. Might feel a bit weird switching from Lemmy, but if you feel like it I’d recommend giving it a try. :)

    We’re also defederated from Hexbear, lemmy.ml, and Lemmygrad if that’s a factor.

    • Fitik@fedia.io
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      8 days ago

      I enjoy it as well, I also love how reliable it is, it’s been around longer than software it’s currently running(Mbin). The same admin also runs infosec.exchange, a pretty well known Mastodon instance

    • lemmyingly@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Any website or service that utilizes the .zip TLD 🤮🤮

      I’m sure there are great websites and services that utilize it, but I have a strong opinion that the TLD should have never been put out there for people to use. I block all .zip TLD domains with no exceptions; and so unfortunately, I cannot use lemmy.zip.

      To be fair, I have no real opinions about lemm.ee. It was one of the instances that had the most users when I joined Lemmy, and as far as I’m aware it hasn’t received any real negative press.

      I’m more bothered about seeing or being associated with spam and/or an instance full of toxic people. I’m not a spicy person - or so I’d like to think.

      • fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        8 days ago

        I’m more bothered about seeing or being associated with spam and/or an instance full of toxic people. I’m not a spicy person - or so I’d like to think.

        Zip’s a very trustworthy instance, all admins know about it; so i doubt anything wrong will happen in that regard 😉

    • doctortran@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Problem isn’t so much defederation policy in and of itself, as much as it is just the general level-headedness of the admins

      Lemm.ee’s lead admin had exactly the type of philosophy towards managing this platform that I want to see in wherever I go next.

      This post alone is what convinced me to create a primary account there. It’s professional, level-headed, nuanced, well spoken, and you can tell they’ve actually thought a lot about the big picture in an unbiased way. Not aggressive, preachy, standoffish, snarky, snobbish, and above all, not reactionary. Seeing the instance as infrastructure is what I want to see more of, but I also just want to see admins with this attitude overall.

      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        8 days ago

        Unfortunately that philosophy led them to close down their instance due to burnout, so maybe it’s not exactly a winning one 😅

        • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          8 days ago

          I beg you, please take care of yourself if it’s needed, take time off, relax, get help from others. I think you have a philosophy to not take money out of the donations, but speaking as one of the contributors, I think that’s unfair considering the amount of work you put in.

          What I’m saying is just do what it takes to not let it lead to burnout. I don’t think anyone that understands the value of this instance would mind.

    • 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Can lemmy use a different subdomain for authentication?

      Unless it does, lemmy.zip is behind cloudflare and all of the passwords are going through a different entity, whether users like it or not.

      I would rather not.

  • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Since you mention you have no real opinions about lemm.ee. You were just on there by chance.

    I’ll propose you the style of blahaj which is to have downvotes disabled, its quite a different way to interact with lemmy, maybe a bit weird to get used to. But it feels much less hostile. And it fosters a good culture of just ignoring shitty takes and replies.

    As far as “no extremes” you mentioned you prefer, blahaj blocks lemmygrad and hexbear (ultra authoritarians) and any far right instance (think hilariouschaos)

  • Kierunkowy74@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 days ago

    You might like https://piefed.social/.

    • Usual controversial instances (hexbear, grad, hilariouschaos…) are banned here,
    • Posts and replies with many downvotes are collapsed by default,
    • You can individually block any (whole) instance, community, users and linked domains. You can also filter the keywords,
    • Any much-downvoted user will appear with red warning sign