lemmy.cafe, lemmy.zip, lemmy.one

lemm.ee?

Didn’t even mention mine. For a brand new user, they don’t know what the fuck is going on there.

Lemmy.world is also the most reliable and the smoothest experience.

I strongly have the opposite opinion. Let people start on Lemmy.World and once they have experience (like you), they can move to where they want.

They’re an actual non-profit org out of the Netherlands with professional hosting.

Federation is a feature like divorce is a feature. It’s extremely important that it exists and is accessible. Not everybody needs to do it. Other servers are a fine option if you know what you’re doing and are willing to deal with more issues OR if there’s a compelling reason (such as the various regional servers).

When federation between lemm.ee and lemmy.world is behind by an hour or two, where do you think users will have a better experience? When 90% of their content is now a couple hours older, that’s a worse experience.

And spreading people out doesn’t really fix anything. It just puts more stress on federation technology. If you spread out all the users, Federation becomes a much harder to manage many to many relationship between all the servers, instead of primarily being a one to many relationship.

In short, if you spread out the users equally, suddenly every instance begins to have federation issues with each other, and everyone has a worse experience. With a bigger “main” instance, the majority of users are less affected by federation issues, and the issues are less common.

The regional servers have more of a balance here. 90% of their content may be old, but the 10% they are up to date with are the things closest to them, most important to them, and maybe in their language.

I do appreciate having several general use instances. I just don’t want to send newbies there who will generalize their experience to all of Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Lemm.ee

Wait, are you u/blazealt?