Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt?
Lehmuusa@nord.pub 3 weeks agoYeah, that is likely to work. And you’ll get basically all of the same content no matter where. Some defederate the Tankie Triad, which results in better content.
I chose mine mainly based on it running on PieFed instead of Lemmy, because PieFed has a little more features and a nicer UI. And then secondly by this being hosted in the Nordic countries, where it is legal to say that genocides are always a bad thing. If there was something that defederated from the Tankie Triad, but fulfills the other two requirements I’d absolutely make the switch to that :)
MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
I do.lolw the UI. I tend to wing stuff, so I’ll just go ahead with this.
Umm, any recs on how to get started before I stumble in the dark?
Lehmuusa@nord.pub 3 weeks ago
Started with what? :)
MichaeleanDouglasse@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
With making an account there.
Lehmuusa@nord.pub 2 weeks ago
Well, there’s still the problem of finding an instance ;)
For choosing my own instance, I’ve found this tool very handy: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list .
Click the top of the column for uptime percentage. The ones with 100% are probably a bad idea, because that means they’ve never been updated. Then maybe take a look at where the server is located. If something looks good by these statistics, click the name of the instance to check the server version number. You generally won’t want an instance that lags far behind others in the version number – that indicicates a lazy server admin. It’s also good to read the instance description.
Also, note that this listing currently conflates PieFed and PyLova, even though they are now two separate codebases. They still look and feel about the same because PyLova was forked from PieFed such a short time ago.