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Best PieFed instance to recommend to Redditors? (sh.itjust.works)
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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?

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[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Considering it's still early days and Piefed has a mere 1.5K MAUs, you might as well go with pieces.social unless we are talking about Canada.

Don't put the cart before the horse so to speak.

P.S. I actively use Piefed, but I need this account for managing a Lemmy community.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.social 2 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.com 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.social 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.com 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Kbin forked to Mbin and many of the instances upgraded