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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (16 children)

I started on one of the smaller instances, and guess what? They didn’t make it. I spent about two days setting up my account searching for all the communities I wanted, and had a great feed. Then about a week later, they were gone. I can’t fault the admin- they were doing a lot of work and running up a server bill largely for gratis, but I lost all that setup time. So when I had to start a new account I chose to go to one of the moderately large instances because I didn’t want it to go poof overnight again.

What I’m saying is there is safety in the medium to large instances.

That said, I do have some problems with some of the largest instances throwing their weight around in performing global bans on users from other instances whose world views differ from theirs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances from this i used monyet.cc since they didn't need email discuss.online is good as well

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