If I’m Voyager user who’s lemm.ee profil is about to shut down, is there anything I should take into consideration? Instances to avoid because they are not supported? Tools or app features that would be helpful? Things like that.

Any advice will be appreciated, thanks.

  • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I would avoid lemmy.world, just to spread the risk around.

    A mid sized instance like lemmy.ca, lemmy.cafe, sopuli.xyz should work well

    And of course, check to see that your prospective new instance isn’t de-federated from communities that are important to you, or something else strange, like lemmy.zip allegedly geoblocks UK IP addresses.

    Some large instances are defederated from lemmynsfw.com, so if those /c’s are important to you…

    lemmy.ml is defedded from ani.social, so if any of those /c’s are important to you…

    Several instances are defedded from hexbear.net, beehaw.org. Again, if you like any /c’s on those instances…

    And of course, if an instance hosts a lot of groups that are important to you, it might be a good idea to sign up there.

    • TomSelleck@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Do you know what the deal with beehaw is? I know about the others you mentioned.

    • Ideonek@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Thank you. My mind spins a bit, but that’s good for the brain I heard. If I’m on the instance A that is defederated from Instance B, I won’t be able to subscribe to it at all, right? Or is it jest that it wont show on my defoult feed until i subscribe implicitly?

      • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
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        2 days ago

        If someone subscribed beforehand to content from Instance B, it’ll still be there on your instance A’s cache, but there will be no new content after defederation, if that makes any sense.

        • Ideonek@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I think I understood it, but there is no way of telling if I’m right.

          • zabadoh@ani.socialEnglish
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            2 days ago

            For example, there was an instance named lemmy.film that isn’t there anymore, but you can still find content that was posted on it on all but the newest instances.

      • Lumun@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 days ago

        You won’t be able subscribe or see the posts of communities there and you also won’t see the comments left by users from those instances on any post. I like .zip because it doesn’t defederate much but instead applies a “default blocklist” for new accounts, which are removable. However, as the other commenter mentioned, .zip is not accessible in the UK due to their ridiculous online liability laws.