Neither. Never go for an instance thats at the top in terms of user count unless there is a specific reason to do so. This applies to all fediverse or decentralized services.
Go for any of the ones below the red line or sort this table by MAU and find one even further down. Excluding US based servers is also something to think about.
Counterpoint to this is that you may be in a dead instance that doesn’t do updates or get maintained properly. You might sign on one day to find that you can’t load any posts because the server is down or overloaded.
If an instance has multiple hundred active users, i doubt its going anywhere anytime soon. You can also just contact the admin of any server and ask how they fund it and what their future plans are. The “first seen” column also quickly gives you an idea of how long standing the server is.
Lemmy.ca is targeted at Canadians, feddit.org at German speakers (most of [email protected] is in German). Blahaj is a trans-first space, programming.dev for programmers
Neither. Never go for an instance thats at the top in terms of user count unless there is a specific reason to do so. This applies to all fediverse or decentralized services.
Go for any of the ones below the red line or sort this table by MAU and find one even further down. Excluding US based servers is also something to think about.
Who is MAU?
Monthly Active Users :3
Counterpoint to this is that you may be in a dead instance that doesn’t do updates or get maintained properly. You might sign on one day to find that you can’t load any posts because the server is down or overloaded.
If an instance has multiple hundred active users, i doubt its going anywhere anytime soon. You can also just contact the admin of any server and ask how they fund it and what their future plans are. The “first seen” column also quickly gives you an idea of how long standing the server is.
Then maybe read up on the drama around Feddit.de which only narrowly made it to feddit.org…
Not an issue with like the top 20
I’m on my third account in a year or so precisely for the reasons I mentioned.
Lemmy.ca is targeted at Canadians, feddit.org at German speakers (most of [email protected] is in German). Blahaj is a trans-first space, programming.dev for programmers
Lemmy.zip and sopuli are indeed generalists