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I would avoid lemmy.world, just to spread the risk around.
A mid sized instance like lemmy.ca, lemmy.cafe, sopuli.xyz should work well
And of course, check to see that your prospective new instance isn't de-federated from communities that are important to you, or something else strange, like lemmy.zip allegedly geoblocks UK IP addresses.
Some large instances are defederated from lemmynsfw.com, so if those /c's are important to you...
lemmy.ml is defedded from ani.social, so if any of those /c's are important to you...
Several instances are defedded from hexbear.net, beehaw.org. Again, if you like any /c's on those instances...
And of course, if an instance hosts a lot of groups that are important to you, it might be a good idea to sign up there.
Thank you. My mind spins a bit, but that's good for the brain I heard. If I'm on the instance A that is defederated from Instance B, I won't be able to subscribe to it at all, right? Or is it jest that it wont show on my defoult feed until i subscribe implicitly?
You won't be able subscribe or see the posts of communities there and you also won't see the comments left by users from those instances on any post. I like .zip because it doesn't defederate much but instead applies a "default blocklist" for new accounts, which are removable. However, as the other commenter mentioned, .zip is not accessible in the UK due to their ridiculous online liability laws.
If someone subscribed beforehand to content from Instance B, it'll still be there on your instance A's cache, but there will be no new content after defederation, if that makes any sense.
I think I understood it, but there is no way of telling if I'm right.
For example, there was an instance named lemmy.film that isn't there anymore, but you can still find content that was posted on it on all but the newest instances.
Do you know what the deal with beehaw is? I know about the others you mentioned.
I misremembered: It's beehaw that defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
That's bad news because of the large numbers of communities and users on .world and sjw
https://beehaw.org/comment/285247