Primarily I’m wondering if certain instances have reputations that might color what people think about my community just by virtue of it being hosted on a particular instance.

There’s also the question of instance-wide content moderation or something, not like I’m trying to be edgy, but like some instances might not like curse words or discussions about heavy topics like suicide, or something.

Also I’m wondering if it’s somehow harder for people from other instances to find communities (I understand that subscribing is easy, but finding may be different?)

Appreciate details…

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    If your community is on a small instance, the instance dies and your community dies.

    If the community on lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net or, lemmy.ml, criticisms of China/Russia = banned.

    If the community is on lemmy.world, saying “Lol Brain Thompson deserved it” = banned

    If the community is on an instance that federates with lemmygrad.ml or hexbear.net, prepare for a brigade every time you mention China or Russia (or their predecessors).

    I recommend:

    sh.itjust.works

    lemmy.ca (you don’t have to be canadian, btw)

    but if your community focuses on piracy-related content, then go to lemmy.dbzer0.com

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    101·
    2 days ago

    It can theoretically alter it in any way. I mean, that’s up to the instance admin.

    Read the instance rules in the sidebar of the main page, and see if you’re okay with them. That won’t tell you everything, but it might give you a rough idea of the specifics of the instance. For mbin instances, rather than the sidebar, look at /terms, like https://fedia.io/terms for fedia.io.

    I personally avoid communities on lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ml if possible, and am not currently subscribed to any. Your home instance is lemmy.world, which is outright defederated with all but lemmy.ml, so you won’t even see some of those. I’m fine with other instances. But that’s gonna vary on a personal basis, so there’s no global answer for that.

    • BothsidesistFraud@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 days ago

      Your home instance is lemmy.world, which is outright defederated with all but lemmy.ml

      Still learning. How are you here from lemmy.today if lemmy.world is defederated (maybe I don’t know what defederated means)

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Every user creates an account on one instance. You did so on lemmy.world, which is the largest instance out there, a popular one. That is their home instance.

        Posts and comments from other instances will be visible to an instance as long as the two instances are federated – that is, the instance admins have not explicitly cut them off from each other. Lemmy.world and lemmy.today are federated.

        Normally, any user from any instance can see and post to any community on a federated instance.

        A given community on a source instance will not actually see its content be copied to a destination instance until at least one user on the destination instance has subscribed to that community – this helps reduce bandwidth usage on the network. I’m subscribed to AskLemmy@lemmy.world, and probably other users on lemmy.today are as well, so we can see this community.

        EDIT: Oh, sorry, I think I see the confusion. I meant that of the instances I listed, lemmy.world was defederated with all except lemmy.ml, not that it was defederated with all instances out there except lemmy.ml.

        You can see instance relationships at /instances, so for lemmy.world, https://lemmy.world/instances

        • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 days ago

          You tried your hardest at the end there to not say “for instance” didn’t you

        • Theo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Wait, I see community posts on instances that are defederated with lemmy.world. is It because I had to search for them and subscribe?

          Edit: how are defederated instance’s posts crossposted on Lemmy.world?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    31·
    2 days ago

    Laws in the country of the server. For example, the UK has insane laws around libel. I wouldn’t want to have anything hosted there.

    Kier Starmer fucked a sheep while sucking off Netanyahu. I’ve got proof.

  • DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    Just overall reception. Nonpolitical community’s are best on the biggest platforms because you’ll have more people to broadcast to, political community’s are best on political instances where its stated that it’s got a political lean.