From fediverse.observer, these are the top ten by active users:

  • piefed.social (too big?)
  • piefed.blahaj.zone (LGBT-focused)
  • piefed.world (same team as lemmy.world, potentially too big?)
  • piefed.ca (canada-focused)
  • feddit.online
  • piefed.zip (same team as lemmy.zip)
  • quokk.au (blocks feddit.org?)
  • piefed.au (too small?)
  • crust.piefed.social (beta testing for piefed.social)
  • anarchist.nexus (same team as lemmy.dbzer0.com)

It seems like feddit.online and piefed.zip might be the most neutral, general instances, not too big or too small.

What are people’s thoughts on the above list? Any aspects I’ve overlooked?

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    I feel like the same was said about lemmy.world at some time, but once the ball gets rolling it’s way harder to stop it

    • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      True, but with community migration tools built into piefed it is less of an issue long-term.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      There is some truth to that, but IMO centralisation with LW isn’t as bad as people make it out to be. I think its only 35% of Threadiverse MAUs.

      Not to mention there are technical reasons for the promince of LW; the inability to cleanly move a community (subscribers, posts, comments) between instances.

      • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I think the Lemmy software UX inadvertently over-promotes local communities over remote communities. I’m not sure if it’s due to the communities page filtering by local by default, or the fact that local communities have shorter display names? Do they take priority in autocomplete?

        I’ve been meaning to make some comparisons with numbers of posts, comments, and active users for communities that are on lemmy.world with another identical community on another instance.

        I haven’t used PieFed much so IDK if it’s similar there.

        But also using the developer’s own instance brings a different risk of putting all your eggs in the same basket, look at what happened to Kbin.

        • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          But also using the developer’s own instance brings a different risk of putting all your eggs in the same basket, look at what happened to Kbin.

          Well, to be fair, if rimu just went AWOL - it wouldn’t matter what piefed instance everyone went to. The development process would stop and Piefed would degrade.

          • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
            2·
            12 hours ago

            Kbin forked to Mbin and many of the instances upgraded, the same could happen with PieFed but piefed.social would be dead