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.
feddit.de and feddit.it
the German one is pretty big.
the italian one “require” you to speak Italian.
Yeah I don’t know how to feel about it, if I could create communities but I was restricted to keep them Italian only, then I’d be cutting out a large part of the population.
I’ll take feddit.de into consideration tho
You’re not, we also have English communities like https://feddit.it/c/askitaly And you’re free to make post in English in italian communities using the English tag
The only thing they have at registration is that you need to write a sentence in “some regional italian slang” And that’s basically serve the purpose to restrict a little bit sign in not to finish like lemmy.world targeting italian speakers
But it’s actually pretty easy
Oh that makes sense actually, it’s an interesting admission process, I would probably (totally) gravely offend my culture if I tried writing in my dialect that I already barely speak, but I’ll pay the price if have to lol