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I'm in Lemmy.world, but I've seen there are others. Do I have to switch in between them (if so, how?) or is it fine the way I have it?

Thanks a lot.

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[–] mizu6079@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It doesn't matter as long as:

  • Your instance isn't defederated from too many big instances. (LW is defederated from beehaw.org so I have alternative accounts to view posts from there).
  • Your instance doesn't have a specific topic that you aren't interested in. (LW is a general-topic instance so that's all good).
  • Your instance has good uptime. (LW often has issues with huge masses of users migrating over from Reddit).

It's still a very good instance. If you want to switch over to a different instance, check out Awesome-Lemmy-Instances on Github.

[–] seeCseas@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hey you're the guy who didn't shit, how did that go!

[–] mizu6079@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ydieb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Kinda pointless comment from me since its over , but I'd do it regardless. The solution is just to fast. 3 day fasts are surprisingly simple to do and makes you easily not poop.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's also some feature differences between instances. Some instances disable downvotes, don't allow creating communities, or have stricter rules about communities that are allowed.

I chose my current instance because I wanted downvotes (I see them as critical for quality control) and also wanted to be federated with beehaw.

As an aside, LW made massive performance improvements the other day. They seem to be in a good position to keep growing, currently. There's certainly some benefits to being on the biggest instance, because of how the /all feed works. It's not actually all. It's "all communities someone on my instance subscribes to", so the bigger your instance, the more correct /all is.