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?

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    7 hours ago

    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.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    19·
    11 hours ago

    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.

    https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/dailystats

  • susi7802@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    14 hours ago

    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.

    • murmelade@lemmy.mlEnglish
      94·
      12 hours ago

      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.

      • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
        22·
        9 hours ago

        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.

    • selokichtli@lemmy.ml
      32·
      9 hours ago

      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.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        3 hours ago

        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