Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions!
Do keep them coming as it might be helpful for others who come across this, since it seems quite a few users are (understandably) bleeding from lemmy.world these days, like myself

I was looking for a solid instance to move to, but I’m getting burned out from trying to find the perfect instance that:

  • is based in a country with reasonable privacy reputation (if it still fits the bill, outside Europe too is fine)
  • allows creating communities without admin approval (I’m willing to try getting into one of those too if needed, hopefully it would be accepting of creating niche communities though)
  • doesn’t defederate indiscriminately

The tool I used is lemmyverse.net but it seems the filtering isn’t working great, or I just don’t understand it, e.g. I filter by Italian language and the only Italian instance I know (feddit.it) doesn’t show up, while a slew of irrelevant ones is listed (Lemmy Português is there??)

Sorry if I sound so needy, maybe I’m just overthinking it, since posts are public and indexable by anyone. Do say so, if I should chill out and just pick one of the usual ones like lemm.ee etc.

P.S. I would love to self-host, but I’m currently not able to either, I don’t have enough technical expertise.

  • lily33@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    AFAIK lemm.ee fits all your requirements, what don’t you like about it?

    Edit: Maybe I’m wrong. It’s run by Estonians, but looking up its IP, it point to the US, so maybe it’s not hosted in the EU.

    • sunaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Our frontend is globally distributed (so if you’re in the US, you get it from a US ip), but the backend server and user data are hosted in the EU.

      • QuazarOmega@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Oh I see, thanks for specifying! I didn’t look too much into it at first and just assumed it was US based (now that I think about it I don’t even know why lol), I’ll keep it in my list

      • mhz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Thanks for clarifying, I’m also considering migrating from lemmy.world and I’m considering lemm.ee, would you recommend that for someone located in north africa (Morocco)? Will i get latency problems? My last concern is should I worry about it degenerating (i still dont get exactly how instances work)?

        • sunaurus@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think latency should be pretty decent thanks to our global CDN, but I think in the end you should just try it out and compare it to some other instances to get the best picture.