Hi guys! I’ve been here and there in the fediverse since a quite few years…always liked pleroma and mastodon, but always have a very bad luck. Every instance I went , every instance closed… Any good advice to choose an instance? I’m kinda tired of being exporting and exporting ad infinitum
I wonder, when you chose those instances, how far from the top they have been comparing by users count.
I don’t know where you should go, but please stay away from mine! 🤣
Sure! Let’s gooooo
Always check terms and privacy policy before signing up, but these seem like they will be here to stay:
Those are all Lemmy and PieFed, and I’m not so familiar with Mastodon and others. Maybe look at mas.to ?
I think the safest thing would be self-hosting your own solo GoToSocial instance. With SLURP you could import your entire Mastodon archive… and if you’re not proficient, coding-wise, you could install GoToSocial via YunoHost.org, which is so easy to follow, a total newbie could do it (speaking from experience). The only requirement would be a basic VPS (say, about 5 Euros a month). If you could give up 1-2 coffees a month, it’s not that big of an expense. I personally love my GtS account, as I get to personalize it, setting character limits, uploading my own custom emojis, etc.
this is nice, I’ll do a research. I know yuno but never use it because I can’t have 24/7 raspberry or old pc working
Thanks! I personally use a VPS because I don’t have a stable connection at home. If you could spare 4 or 5 Euros a month, I would definitely recommend self-hosting
If you are willing to have professional support and also support the underlying projects: Communick offers accounts only for paying-members. $29/year gives you an account on Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix, and we pledge to give 20% of the profits to the fediverse projects that we offer.
https://fedidb.com is good for picking an instance with a substantial user count and shows how long the instance has been running.
instance size is not necessarily a strong signal that the instance is safer.
He didn’t suggest that it was safer. Just large usercount, and long running status.
Safer in the sense of “less likely to go down or disappear”.
Lemmy.world
The HTTP response times are sometimes a little rough, but the team has managed to keep up a large part of the fediverse for the past few years. It’s impressive, and I’m happy that I ended up chosing lemmy.world after migrating from lemmy.ml.
The group behind it or others similar. When you are on a small self hosted instance. You are at the mercy of a hobby admins time and skill. Which is no dig at them. Sometimes it just becomes too much.
I have had a number of Mastodon accounts since 2017 with the groups Mastodon servers. They run themselves as a serious organization. Providing services of a quality absolutely worth paying for. All with donations.
