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
    2·
    16 hours 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·
      14 hours 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.