It depends. I don’t feel forced to go on there because it has none of my friends. Obviously I’ll go once every few weeks to check out cool photography but I’m really not an active user there.

Yeah I think I elaborated too much. Let’s just keep recommending small instances — because the current centralisation on world sucks.

Yeah. join-lemmy.org unfortunately isn’t great because it often points to random semi dead instances.

Something like,

The instance you join doesn’t matter much — because you can access all content no matter what instance you are on — but it can be nice to be on an instance that shares you interests and values, because you will have to conform to the rules of that instance. Think of it like your clan — it’s like your email being yourname@yourworkplace — you can still email everyone else and see their emails, but it signals something about you, and it has different rules.

Here are a couple options:

General Purpose:

• discuss.online (hosted US)
• lemm.ee
• lemmy.cafe
• sh.itjust.works (hosted Canada)

Interests:

• mander.xyz (Science)
• programming.dev (Programming)
• infosec.pub (Cybersecurity)
• lemmynsfw.com (Porn)

Diversity:

• lemmy.blahaj.zone (LGBTQ+)

Regions/Langauges:

• jlai.lu (French)
• feddit.org (German)
• lemmy.ca (Canada)
• aussie.zone (Australia)

Ideology:

• lemmy.dbzer0.com (Anarchism and Piracy)
• slrpnk.net (Environmentalist Leftists)
• lemmy.ml (Authoritarian Leftists)

Please copypaste my comment and add instances / improve it

I made an alternative linking to lemm.ee

because in general this is a good flyer