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.
I don’t know about the privacy in UK, but privacy on Lemmy is… Pretty much inexistent.
Tho maybe the email Adresses could maybe be stored privately somehow.
My instance compuverse.uk runs most of the time. Tho the servers are not giant, and there was already an issue where the storage filled up completely before an upgrade had to be made.
Tho now it would be running on a separate storage dedicated server which may allow for more storage.
Also the rules on this instance makes it pretty much compatible with every other instance and so would avoid the defederation by other instances. (please just don’t put porn or gore in the all).
UK was a red flag for privacy even before they left the EU but you are right, just use a fresh email!