Lanky_Pomegranate530Not including Lemmy.world what do you think is the best Lemmy instance?
Dempflemmynsfw.com
Ayyyy lmao
They literally just post celebrities there like all day. It’s so creepy
Create an account to block them.
mihntI think that’s all you see if you aren’t logged in. Cause I saw the same thing and then created and account. I promise it’s not all they post.
This. You see the goid stuff only if you log in. If you don’t log in it should be a rather safe for work.
Although probably super creepy at work
Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)I know there is much worst, but I find it so freaking creepy, it’s a part of internet I never really saw before
Dude, totally. Like, if you’re gonna post porn, at least post non-consensual porn of people you know??? /s
Vaggumonmidwest.social
midwest.social gang here as well. I don’t think there is really a best instance though. Midwest.social works for me, because I’m…. Midwest.
Lemm.ee, quick, responsive and just works.
Agreed. It’s been the most stable one I’ve been on so far
lemmy.ml
They defederated from Threads, as everyone should do. I was there to see how Google fucked up XMPP via EEE when they joined that federation. Meta is doing the same.
Fuck Lemmygrad, loud authoritarians. There’s no room for dictators on the fediverse.
That’s lemmygrad.ml, not lemmy.ml. Don’t confuse things.
Also, I would take an alive fediverse and some communities I can ignore and not subscribe to than a dead fediverse in the hands of the corporations. See what Google did to XMPP. See reddit. See twitter. See threads…
TheSpookiestUserThanks for sharing this, I wasn’t aware of this yet
Does anyone know how to block instances from showing up in your feed? The lemmygrad stuff is one of the instances I’d love to not see.
I feel like having a preference kind of defeats the point?
I thought they were supposed to be interchangeable?
It’s the communities yours supposed to care about.
That’s always been the burning question for me. Why choose one over the other? What kind of attributes should I look at to do informed comparisons? Like server uptime, number of users, which instances they’ve federated with (or not federated with)…
And how and where can I see all this in one place? If it’s truly interchangeable, which it really isn’t, then why not have a single unified web front to reduce confusion for most normal users?
I think the unified webfront is a bit tough, I believe right now the instance will pull from other instances if someone on the instance your in is following something from their instance
But you can really be on any instance and follow stuff from everywhere else, the search needs a bit of work in cataloging everything so a tool like browse.feddit.de is really useful in finding communities
TheSaneWriterI would also like to shout out lemmyverse.net, it’s basically indexed every instance and every community (even minuscule instances like mine are counted), and I think it has a really good search and sorting function. Also, it does include KBin magazines, but you have to enable it in the settings menu in the upper right part of the screen.
awesome thank you, just used it to find the elder scrolls oblivion community, hope to start seeing some of my favorite memes again
No problem at all, I’m glad that you were able to find a community you like!
RylysharThat is awesome! Thanks!
No problem, I use it all the time, it’s honestly vital for small instances like mine.
Lemmy.world is noticeably slower and prone to have issues compared to the smaller instances for me.
Mastodon.world is solid though and run by the same people. Lemmy.world is still kinda new, but I have faith those guys will dial it in eventually.
the instance I’m on seems to be performant enough :)
I don’t really understand this either. I only have 1 account on Lemmy.world. I can see why some people have a backup. For me, it doesn’t seem necessary unless I’m missing something. If the server goes down temporarily, I’m fine with just waiting for it to come back. If it goes down permanently, then I’ll go ahead and create an account on another server.
There are many reasons why people keep an alt Lemmy account. I was on Reddit for a decade and a half and lost count of how many alts I had.
I think that’s somewhat of an oversimplification. The point of the instances isn’t to be interchangeable, it’s to provide decentralization and lots of choice to Lemmy users. Lemmy itself is more or less just a protocol a bunch of different link aggregator sites are running on, each of which has its own administration style and community policy. There are lots of general-purpose Lemmy instances, lots of more niche ones, and a bunch of small/personal ones that don’t have a strong identity yet, and all of them together form the Lemmy ecosystem.
The instance preference can be important if you look at the Local Communities timeline. Niche instances will usually have more communities relevant to that niche. However, with current user distribution most users are either on Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml.
A Federated space where this more apparent is on Mastodon. I joined SFBA,social because it is local to me (San Francisco Bay Area, California, US). The Local Timeline is all users on the instance. As a good proportion of them are from the area I can learn about local events/projects/news.
Definitely sh.itjust.works. The largest instance that defederates with the fewest other instances (though they could still do better here - there’s no reason to defederate either exploding-heads or lemmygrad), no email required on sign up, and a super chill vibe.
Users voted to defed from exploding heads in the agora community.
Hal-5700XLink to sh.itjust.works
Flying Squidmander.xyz if you like science.
Mander - An instance dedicated to nature and science.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8036442 [https://hexbear.net/post/8036442] > cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/37097 [https://news.abolish.capital/post/37097] > > > [https://hexbear.net/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fmedia-library%2Fisrael-continues-air-strikes-and-ground-offensive-in-lebanon.jpg%3Fid%3D65343010%26width%3D1200%26height%3D400%26coordinates%3D0%252C328%252C0%252C340] > > > > > > Israel is planning to use Gaza as a “model” for its expanding assault on Lebanon, its defense minister said on Sunday as he pledged to begin the demolition of homes in border villages. > > > > In a statement [https://x.com/Israel_katz/status/2035668503554879862] Sunday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had ordered the Israel Defense Forces to “immediately destroy all the bridges over the Litani River that are used for terrorist activity, in order to prevent the passage of Hezbollah terrorists and weapons southward.” > > > > He also said he’d ordered the military to “accelerate the destruction of Lebanese homes in the border villages in order to thwart threats to the Israeli settlements—in accordance with the Beit Hanoun and Rafah model in Gaza.” > > > > > > > > Dylan Williams, the vice president for government affairs at the Center for International Policy, described [https://x.com/dylanotes/status/2035705062115213816] the invocation of this “Gaza model” as “an open admission of intent to commit ethnic cleansing” in Lebanon. > > > > The two cities Katz referred to were largely wiped off the map during the Gaza genocide. > > > > Beit Hanoun, a city on the northeastern edge of the Gaza Strip, which once had a population of more than 50,000 people, had nearly all of its structures totally “flattened” by Israel’s bombing and was totally depopulated, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-01/ty-article-magazine/.premium/exhausted-burning-out-israeli-soldiers-speak-in-northern-gazas-flattened-beit-hanoun/00000198-647f-dc50-a9bf-ed7f38b40000] in mid-2025. The far-right in Israel has pushed [https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-12-20/ty-article/.premium/israeli-knesset-members-plan-resettlement-of-gaza-in-observation-tour/00000193-e31e-dc08-af97-e3ffe9ef0000] for Jewish Israeli settlers to move in and build settlements on the territory. > > > > Rafah has been similarly devastated, with nearly 70% of the structures “wiped out” according to an October 2025 investigation [https://www.info-res.org/israel-gaza-war/reports/destruction-of-the-built-environment-in-rafah-gaza/] by the Center for Information Resilience. > > > > At the time that Israeli forces moved [https://www.commondreams.org/news/rafah-children-idf] into Rafah in mid-2024, it was the last refuge for more than 1 million Palestinians who’d been displaced from their homes elsewhere in the strip. UN experts described [https://www.un.org/unispal/document/israels-rafah-invasion-must-stop-now-say-un-human-rights-experts/#%3A%7E%3Atext=forcibly+transfer+and+destroy+Gaza%E2%80%99s+population] the attack on Rafah as a culmination of a monthslong campaign to “forcibly transfer and destroy Gaza’s population," with more than 800,000 people being forced [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/18/un-says-800000-people-have-fled-rafah-as-israel-kills-dozens-in-gaza] to flee. > > > > > > > > Human Rights Watch said on Monday [https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/18/un-says-800000-people-have-fled-rafah-as-israel-kills-dozens-in-gaza] that Katz’s announcement demonstrated “an intent to forcibly displace residents, destroy civilian homes, and conduct strikes that could target civilians” in Lebanon as well. > > > > Already, more than 1 million civilians in Lebanon, from the area south of the Litani River and in Beirut’s southern suburbs, have become displaced [https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/23/israels-displacement-of-civilians-in-lebanon-is-a-possible-war-crime] following orders [https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-lebanon-mass-evacuation] from the Israeli military to evacuate their homes. > > > > Katz has said hundreds of thousands of Shiite civilians will be forbidden [https://www.commondreams.org/news/lebanon-ground-invasion] from returning from their south of the Litani “until the safety of Israel’s northern residents is guaranteed,” and he has said Israel “will not hesitate to target anyone who is present near Hezbollah members, facilities, or means of combat.” > > > > Human Rights Watch has said these indefinite displacements raise the concern that Israel is perpetrating the war crime of forced displacement and doing so based on religion. > > > > “The Israeli military does not get to decide when civilians lose protections afforded by international law, nor should it be allowed to prevent displaced residents from returning to their homes based on some undefined ‘safety’ standard,” said Ramzi Kaiss, Lebanon researcher at Human Rights Watch. Deliberately targeting civilians, civilian objects, and others protected under international law would be a war crime, and countries supplying Israel with weapons need to realize they are risking complicity in war crimes too.” > > > > Since the latest outbreak of hostilities at the beginning of March following the launch of the US-Israeli war against Iran, at least 1,024 people in Lebanon have been killed [https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/death-toll-from-israeli-attacks-rises-to-1-204-says-lebanon/3874224] in Israeli attacks, including 79 women and 118 children, according to a report from Lebanese authorities this weekend. > > > > Last week, the United Nations Human Rights Office reported [https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-briefing-notes/2026/03/situation-lebanon] that Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have “destroyed hundreds of homes and civilian infrastructure, including healthcare facilities.” > > > > “For over two years, Israel’s allies and European states that purport to support and uphold human rights have buried their heads in the sand as atrocities continue in Lebanon, as in Gaza,” Kaiss said. “Atrocities flourish when there is impunity, and other countries should no longer stand by as they continue.” > > > > — > > > > From Common Dreams [https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss] via This RSS Feed [https://www.commondreams.org/feeds/news.rss].
The best would be the one you yourself host, or someone close to you
Thteven
_haha_oh_wow_I like mine
!lemmy.ca should be mentioned. It’s like !midwest.social, super chill.
Is that a canadian or a california instance?
Canadian instance
Historical_Generallemmy.ml looks cool, I couldn’t create an account with them recently but I had a two year old account with a federated site that should work iirc.
Don’t join lemmy.ml. Those guys suck.
I’ve seen the post about comments/posts ‘critical of China’ being removed - the actual posts in question were low information, misleading and in many cases also denying reality. One guy denied we’re in a (soft) cold war even. I think the mods there need to be clearer about the rules though, and criticism of any country’s actions should be allowed. They left the post up btw.
And I’m actually okay with discussions about geopolitics being controlled. Those tend to bring out the worst wierdos from the old place.
For 1 internet point please write a 1000 word essay on the geopolitical ramifications of the war in Iraq circa 2003.
spadufslrpnk.net If you’re into climate activism and self sufficiency
MewtwoBlahaj is life
For completely biased reasons, lemmy.thesanewriter.com. It was really satisfying to set up, and I’m having a good time running it. If I had to pick an instance for less biased reasons, lemm.ee, I really think they’re doing a great job maintaining transparency and overall running a good instance.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Yiffit.net. After so many years of feeling like the furry spaces on Reddit were a little too childish or at least child friendly, it’s great to find the same kind of adult vibe that I remember from when I was more active in the furry community as a teen/young adult.
Takatakatakatakataklemmy.dbzer0.com
The admins have a moral compass that aligns with my own, and I’m pretty sure they have an actual compass as well. So far they have been open about all issues and addressed them quickly, often before their instance was affected.
They took community input before preemptively defederating from threads and all of the booty and plunder is shared equally among the crew. The artwork is sick and often features Lemmy from Motorhead in various shades of cyberpunk or steampunk pirate getup and it really feels like home.
As a matter of fact I might donate some money to the cause, these guys rock.
Flakyiusearchlinux.fyi just for the domain name 😎
(and it’s a neat, friendly instance too)