lemmy.world had difficulty handling new account registration when I tried moving from Reddit in June 2023, so I tried to find/join other instances. People said "it doesn't matter which instance you join."
Oh it definitely mattered.
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2025
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I made the mistake of joining .ml 4 years ago, because I didn't know. Then moved to world and now I'm here.
Fmhy ➡️ dbzer0 ➡️ cafe ➡️ piefed.ca
Definitively my best move was joining piefed, being able to actually block instances (unlike lemmy where you still get their posts via crossposts even if your instance defederated them) made it a little better in general.
allegedly, actually functional instance blocking is shipping in Lemmy soon.
I really doubt it or it will have some sort of way to still see their propaganda but anyway is too late, besides piefed isn't developed by terrible people who organises trolls to brigade other instances/users who disagrees with their propaganda.
I rather move away from lemmy and really wish others would too.
Too late, piefed took the crown already. I don't want to be associated with assholes like Dessalines.
Yup, same here, but now I'm testing the waters on PieFed. Maybe it's ~~turtles~~ instance hopping all the way down.
this thing's adorable, what is that
It is by artist "sherchle". I don't think it is from a tv show or anything like that. Oh and the car is from pui pui Molcar. I thought you meant the turtle
i want these
Similar to you ahah
ML -> World -> and now I’m using a few different instances to organise my feeds until voyager support for piefed is less buggy and they dev adds the custom feeds feature
Nice. I am pretty happy with mbin, as it kinda is an all in one thing. The only "negatives" are that not a lot of people use it and AFAIK you can't crosspost. Also the top instance is application only.
Started from the bottom now we're here. 🎶