Previously lemm.ee. Now it’s the .zip instances (lemmy.zip and piefed.zip). Great uptime, admin is cool and regularly posts server updates, fed/defed policies are good, and is usually not involved in instance infighting drama.
this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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Agree with the .zip instances, it's nice to not randomly lose access to communities over instance drama
Haven't tried them all but piefed.social is pretty awesome.
What? No Mbin?
Ok fine, sh.itjust.works I guess because it's got a funny name and is powered by renewables. That or the solar punk lemmy.
What’s your favourite Mbin instance?
I guess it would be the instance I am on.
slrpnk.net is the best lemmy instance, not sure yet for piefed
What do you like about it?
The admins are great: dedicated, funny, and humble. They are hesitant to defederate and transparent when they do.
The communities are fantastic. Active, focused, and relevant. Worth browsing through even if you don't have an account there.
Uptime is consistent and server infrastructure is almost completely transitioned to renewable energy.
Sounds great. Do you happen to know where the server is located?
I want to say SW Europop? But don't quote me on that.
Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Im just gonna browse /all anyway.
Mine ;)
im a bit instance blind. I just hang out with whoevers posting and junk.
The one you feel at home with? I mean, beside technical considerations (how it's working) instances are made of and by people, so yeah: to what place would you rather go spend some time? ;)
The one you host yourself.
But im quite partial to piefed.social 😁
I love lemmy.sdf.org the best - it's a unixy ragtag underdog cyberpunk kind of place running on a pubnix cluster, whose frequent downtime only adds to its charm. Three-character dot-org domain name (aura). Broad spectrum of users, unified by finding something like a pubnix cluster cool.
Usually the downtime lasts a day or two at most, the plucky pubnix admins get it back online and we celebrate. But it's been down for over a month now :(
I had an account running on a Lemmy.sdf.org instance and the whole thing got destroyed when they had downtime. Never came back. Never let me login again or nothing.
Completely gone.
It might yet come back, the page has a banner saying they ran out of storage and the community has donated a bit to add more.
I spun up my own server in the meantime though, and even if sdf does come back, I'll probably stick to using this one as my primary.
I signed up to two, one let me in faster. I'm new to the whole thing anyway
What made you get into it?
In what sense? Communities hosted there? For use as a home instance?
Like, lemmy.world is the largest instance in terms of hosted communities, so I'd say that it probably wins for many users in that sense of hosting communities
if it went down, it'd leave the biggest hole. Some users might want specific instance-wide admin rules and might want that, or might want to partly or entirely use instances on a special-interest instance (e.g. beehaw.org aims to create a "safe space").
But I could easily see that being very different from an instance being the best home instance for a user, have lower latency for them. I mean, I don't have my home instance there. There will be instances that are closer to a given user. Instances that permit larger images to be posted. Instances that provide proxying of images to avoid exposing user IP addresses. For Lemmy instances, there are a number of alternate Web-based frontends, and some instances run those (my home instance, lemmy.today, also runs mlmym at https://old.lemmy.today/, runs Photon at https://photon.lemmy.today/, runs Voyager at https://m.lemmy.today/, and runs Alexanderite at https://alexanderite.lemmy.today/). Some instances have custom themes specific to those instances, and what one likes is obviously going to depend upon one's aesthetic preferences. Some instances have different policies on permitted content. Some instances defederate with some other instances, and some don't (lemmy.today has a no defederation policy, but many instances will defederate with, for example, hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, right-wind extremist instances, or instances serving various forms of underage pornography).
I think that it's hard to say that one is clearly "best" there, because what a user wants on that front probably varies a lot from user to user; we aren't all identical in our preferences.
not sure about best but mine's pretty good