Content? Politics? Community? A cool integration you’re looking for? Maybe even a cool domain name? I’m not looking for tips as an instance owner, lol; I’m just curious.
Edit: I’ve gotten a lot of push factors, what about pull factors?
1 of them will cause me to change instance:
1: Rude People
2: lemmy.world defederates my instance
3: bad moderation or mods
Unreasonable moderation.
That is to say, I have no problem with reasonable moderation or following well-established rules, but if there comes a point where it seems that the admins and mods are abusing their power, then I would probably lose trust in their leadership of that instance.
I only really want an instance to be stable, uncontroversial, and to have a low block/blocked by count (I can filter out for myself what I want and don’t want to see). I’d switch instances if those preferences were not being met to a degree that noticeably impacted my experience using it.
I left .world as I felt the communities there were too toxic.
Ooof, a lot of things.
- Github-like uptimes (95% or lower, basically) (yes, I know I’m on SDF’s lemmy, thanks)
- Github-like moderation (“we are
right-wing‘neutral’” and such asses, no Luigi, no guillotines for CEOs, etc) - Github-like servicing (severely blocking what is accessible to guests or to API use, for example)
- Severe Big Tech dependency / cock-sucking (annoying Cloudflare captcha for example)
- There being flat out better options elsewhere
Me getting too busy to maintain my own server 😅
Twin
It shutting down. Or me stop being lazy and finally run up my own instance.
I don’t use Lemmy as part of my personality so I don’t care who the Admins are or what the perception of a user is based on a domain.
lemmy.ee made people too scattered, i like that it was a alternative .world instance without thier astroturfing.
Tankieslop.
Honestly, any extremist slop
Same thing. 😂
Censorship and defederation. It’s a fuzzy, subjective line. I want instances to allow anything non-hate and non-abusive. I will filter anything I don’t personally like.
I hopped around a bit before landing on .zip, and they definitely strike the right balance. I just want admins to defederate spam. Anything beyond that is curation, which is solely my job.
Cool domain name
r1b.it ;)
Shitty admins or unreliability would definitely drive me away.
Being well run and powered by renewables would be positives for me.
when one shuts down.
I’d leave if I felt some controversy for whatever reason but I currently use multiple instances that I switch between anyway.
Features:
For me, the features of an instance was a major factor. This is the main reason why I switched from a Lemmy instance to a PieFed instance.Polls, combined communities into feeds, comments from all crossposts in one post, multi images in posts, better integration with Mastodon users, scheduled posts, tags, flair, blurring of spoilers, etc. All good reasons to use PieFed instead of Lemmy.
As far as hopping between instances of the same software:
Content:
I usually prefer instances that give the end user more control over the content they want to see. That means minimizing the number of instances blocked (as much as reasonable) and more federation. Piefed.Zip would likely be the next instance I’ll hop to.Privacy:
.World instances actively block VPN users. So that’s one reason I would avoid them for future hops.Politics:
In general, only if the admins block/ban users based mostly on their political beliefs. I try to avoid factoring in whether admins have political beliefs that match my own. There will always be things that people disagree on, and everyone has their own lines that they have drawn on how far they’re willing to support others based on their own beliefs.What matters to me is that an admin can treat others fairly, even if they disagree on politics.
Domain Name:
Usually not a factor unless it’s something absurd.Content is my primary reason for switching from Lemmy.world to Piefed.social. I just wanted access to the pirating comms and I had to switch for that.
