Blaze

I'm always torn with Beehaw as they defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

Posting there just mean that a third of Lemmy won't see your post.

Feel free!

On my side I feel like most of https://lemmy.ml/communities are already covered. This post is for communities that other people have already identified as "not having alternatives" (see complaints on the other post), so they should know them already.

Privacy: !privacy@lemmy.ml

!privacyguides@lemmy.one is a good one. The instance admin comes and go, but the instance is still up-to-date

Other active options:

• !privacy@lemmy.ca
• !privacy@lemmy.world

Personal finance: !personalfinance@lemmy.ml

There are a few country-based:

• !ausfinance@aussie.zone
• !personalfinancecanada@lemmy.ca
• !personalfinanceuk@feddit.uk
• !finances@jlai.lu

Maybe it makes more sense to have country-based communities?

Open source: !opensource@lemmy.ml

• !opensource@programming.dev seems like a nice alternative (more subs than !opensource@lemmy.world)

Linux: !linux@lemmy.ml

!linux@lemmy.world seems quite active, I guess if any people move to it it will become even more active.

!linux@programming.dev could probably be a nice one too if people want to avoid hypercentralization on LW

If you know any other, comment below and we can see which one we decide to select as "the one" to avoid fragmentation.

When people ask about generalist instance recommendations, here's my list

• lemm.ee is the second most active instance and avoids joining Lemmy.world which is already too big (you can join LW if you really want)
• sh.itjust.works works, if you don't mind the name
• if you are based in Europe, discuss.tchncs.de is very well managed (they have other services at https://tchncs.de/)
• if you are based in North America, lemmy.ca is nice
• reddthat.com is cool if you don't want downvotes

That's pretty much it. Other instances are either topic-based or regional, but then people have to look them up on lemmyverse or fedidb

Code is opensource, if they were to put a backdoor or anything that would be seen, and once detected, the code can be forked

**People just want a good conversation **

Feel free to join at !casualconversation@lemm.ee

LW is already much more active than lemmy.ml (18k monthly active users vs 2.5k: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), so the system is working, people have left for a less politically biased instance

convince them to crack down on bad actors

The Lemmy devs have expressed several times that they don't want to interfere on how people use their software (e.g. admin the instances and mod the communities).

Which is good (and allow us to say that they can't indeed interfere with Lemmy as a whole), but that also means that they won't be the one "cracking down on bad actors"

https://gui.fediseer.com/ might be something along those lines, with a chain of trust between instances

To be honest I might have forgotten to ping you actually (maybe because you were less active for a bit and I basically mentioned people when I saw their posts in All?) but at least now it is solved!