Thank you for your service

There is https://lemmit.online/, the issue is that most of the people block this bot as it blindly mirrors from Reddit, including the reposts and karma farming posts

To be, the issue was never that no major instance was USA-based, location of the servers doesn’t mean much nowadays. It was more about the fact that no large instance was geared towards USA citizens (a la Lemmy.ca, as we discussed), with a message such as “a USA instance, for USA citizens, but everyone is welcome”. That hypothetical server being hosted in Canada or Europe wouldn’t have that much of an impact, it was more to be able to have politics, finance, news discussions related to the USA in one place

Lemmy.World is still awaiting that upgrade to 0.19.6 to make use of that change in the codebase (release notes) (actually now 0.19.7 is already out too, having come less than a week after the former, and representing just a few bugfixes, release notes).

On the other hand, 0.19.7 still has a picture issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5196

One button to expand pictures similar to RES would be a big improvement

Built-in keyword filters are another one

And of course, multi-communities

Nice, let’s see how it goes.

As a side note, did it have to be on Lemmy.world? Aussie.zone is still 5 days behind, and with the issues that Lemmy 0.19.7 has with pictures, it does not seem like LW is going to update any time soon

• https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5196
• https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/bdid38k9p0t1cf/federation-health-single-instance-overview?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.world&var-remote_instance=aussie.zone

I have a few communities I could post, but I would really prefer to have this community on another instance than LW. Lemm.ee or lemmy.zip as usual would be good candidates.

Edit: also, !lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com exists

Long story short, there is no ideal generalist instance. If you open the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)

• Lemmy.world is too big
• Lemm.ee is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad, something that is not very welcoming to new users (see this thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28798607/15305964 )
• sh.itjust.works names contains “shit”, which can deter users
• lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
• feddit.org, as you mentioned, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
• dbzer0 federated hexbear
• programming.dev is topic-centric (and has a database corruption for the last month https://programming.dev/post/20515601?scrollToComments=true)
• blahaj is queer-focused
• discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
• lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
• lemmy.zip is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
• sopuli.xyz doesn’t have “lemmy” or “feddit” in its name
• beehaw is way outdated
• infosec.pub is topic-centric
• aussie.zone is country-centric
• midwest.social is region-centric

The next page has reddthat.com which is known to have federation issues with LW due to its location in Australia, and lemmy.today which does not defederate anyone

Thank you for that post on Discuss.online, let’s see what the admins say.

Between feddit.org and lemmy.ca, both have their issues indeed. Let’s hope Discuss.online can become “the one”, but it would be a bit ironic to recommend the one instance managed by people who created an alternative to Lemmy

Discuss.Online

They don’t block hexbear: https://discuss.online/instances

One other aspect against recommending lemmy.ca as the one recommended instance is that some Canadian users would prefer the instance to stay local: https://lemmy.ca/post/23600231

Which makes complete sense to be honest, speaking English does not mean that any English speaking user should come to their server while it’s specifically country-named and focused.

I wonder if that is what happened or if lemmy.cafe has switched its main announcement community to be local-only,

I just checked, it is local indeed

May I ask though: why not use lemmy.ca as the default recommendation?

The .ca domain and the logo could deter non Canadians by giving the impression that the instance is geared towards Canadians, which is partially true when you look at the sidebar

it’s geared toward Canadians, hosted in Canada, and run by Canadians. It is, however, not at all restricted to Canadians, or Canadian culture/topics/etc. All are welcome!

I could understand why non-Canadians would rather join another instance

Thank you for confirming!

What they likely get confused about is the plethora of choices, especially when they aren’t even sure that they want to join yet.

Then we need to provide them a single recommendation

While we are talking, a small update on lemmy.cafe: I liked it for a few weeks, but the images stopped showing up properly since a week: https://lemmy.cafe/post/9986198?scrollToComments=true

I now use feddit.org as my default recommendation

Strong agree. Just tell people to go to feddit.org and call it a day

@Maggoty@lemmy.world , could you consider updating the rules to allow instance promotion as well?

Is it?

That’s indeed how I moved a few.

It’s usually fine

For context : https://feddit.org/post/5147326

Great news !

https://lemmy.world/post/22196027

Beans happened a while ago