Lemme.ee is closing, where do I go. Only been here 12 days lol?

1. It's not all federated together, Lemm.ee is more broadly federated than Lemmy.world, as an example. Lemm.ee can see Hexbear and Lemmygrad, you cannot, as a quick example. Federation and defederation policy dramatically impacts the experience.
2. Many instances are specialized, like Lemmygrad with Marxism-Leninism, slrpnk.net with Solarpunk, mander.xyz with science, Hexbear as a left-unity instance, etc. Browsing locally is a fun experience for those into the instance subject.
3. Some instances have only upvotes and no downvotes, some don't show vote totals period, or have other front-facing features. Some offer emojis, like Hexbear.net.

And more! All good reasons to put some thought in.

also, people will assume you're a tankie just because your name ends with .ml 😞

I'm a part of Lemmy.zip for a few months now. Great server with transparent admins who post about server updates and such. It's tech-oriented as an instance, but it's federated, so you still have access to all other servers. I'm a computer nerd, hence why I picked it.

Anything a bit more…centrist, so to speak?

But yeah I signed up for multiple before so id have aged accounts in case my main one went away

I also can vouch for sh.itjust.works. They have a fair defederation policy and has only gone down a couple times in the two years I’ve been using it. When it has the admin has been quick to address it and provides updates via a matrix chat.

The one downside is that some more niche domains have degenerated defederated (thanks autocorrect) from us due to the open enrolment we have (beehaw comes directly to mind). I recall someone linking a website that tracked what servers are federated with each other but I can’t find it now unfortunately.

I'm thinking between Zip and db0... I can't decide 😁

I was too comfortable with lemme.ee (AKA less drama overall than your favorite Lemmy instance) but now I need to deal with this...

Well, I knew from the beginning, that the fediverse works this way, if any we should be grateful we were given a good window to migrate (former fmhy user here lol), and honestly it makes sense, each instance can't last forever... Not even big sites like Reddit will.

Wow didn't know this was an option. Need to migrate my off of lemm.ee then. Thanks for the heads up.

Thank you so so much for showing how to export it. I didn’t want to have to start from scratch in trying to figure out who I followed and who I didn’t. Appreciate it once and again.

Great, I am using voyager. How do I achieve the same goal?

oh, I assumed it was a community for Dragon Ball Z fans.

Communities about Anarchism, Generative AI, Copylefts, Neurodivergence, Filesharing, and Free Software.

This sounds like me. Well, apart from the generative AI thing. Let's see what the dominant stance on it is first

Power hungry admin and uber cringe ai content, pass

db0 works for me.

Y'all have a Gemini page too right?

Was that someone you?

Where would I find a way to know if an instance aligned with what I wanted or not? I’m supposed to personally find and explore a bunch of different ones?

https://lemmy.zip/post/40323214

Hmm. Do any of the apps allow you to seamlessly manage more than one?

Can piefed be accessed through voyager? I heard people talking about it as a good way to avoid all the tankies, but I couldn’t find it on the instance search within voyager.

Even if you truly believe that, just saying that without talking about those instances' reputation seems... unhelpful, at best. You're telling someone to join hexbear without telling them how many instances have defederated from it.

Recommended the 3 worst ones

/s

Don't want more people/load on world, and they may not be Canadian/want an instance that defederated from lots of instances?

Tried registering with lemmyml but it seemed the weight and burden of my user was too much to deal with. Registration denied with no justification so it seems this instance is not welcoming new users.

Justification was given: you have to actually answer the sign-up questions.

Signing up on .ml is signing up for censorship

This is a good reason to choose another instance imo. It's best that we not have all our eggs in one basket, so to speak.

If you want stability sdf.org (lemmy.sdf.org is their Lemmy service) has been around for decades

This thread tells how to export and import your favourites, posts, comments

• Your saved posts and comments are included in your exported settings along with your subscriptions. I was happy to discover that when I did it yesterday.
• Most instances say where they are based in their instance description. If not, you can do a whois lookup to see the general area they are in. Another option is asking in the meta community of the instance.
• Similar to the second point above, most instance owners are transparent with their infrastructure and the ones who are running small servers as hobby projects usually put it as a disclaimer.

For me, decentralization is a kind that exists on a spectrum.

In the Fediverse, there has been decentralization in many ways, and I understand that it's the way it is—no single Fediverse instance or server holds greater power or authority over the others.

However, some servers may be more popular than others because they have been actively promoted or because many friends are using them.

For me, I subscribed to managed hosting services and they are paid to host a Lemmy server. Yes, I also paid for a DNS domain name, which costs around $2 for the first year and $20 for the following year.

This way, I can define my server rules, decide which servers to federate with, and choose whether to close the server or not. It's up to us, unless we are committed to maintaining a large server with a huge user base and are willing to deal with the challenges of moderation.

What I like about the Fediverse is that there are so many free and open-source software options like Lemmy, Mastodon, Mitra, and GotoSocial. I believe that these source codes are free to audit. Therefore, for me, this software feels more like my own than some other software that belongs to someone popular or wealthy.

And regarding your data that you want to recover, maybe you can try to email the server support team to retrieve your data and see if they can provide instructions on how to do so.

The lack of account mobility is really a huge problem with the fediverse, you lose all your stuff if you move to another instance.

You're being down voted, but I feel you. It's why I picked one of the largest instances when I joined, despite what other Lemmings tend to tell people to do. Picking a small instance is a bad idea because they die out like that. I've seen several fairly significant smaller instances die out at this point. I don't want to wake up and my account suddenly vanished one day because the host forgot about it.

I was under the impression that any server will have access to any instance? Is that not the case? Do some of them limit ? I would we looking for the one that limits nothing