From fediverse.observer, these are the top ten by active users:

  • piefed.social (too big?)
  • piefed.blahaj.zone (LGBT-focused)
  • piefed.world (same team as lemmy.world, potentially too big?)
  • piefed.ca (canada-focused)
  • feddit.online
  • piefed.zip (same team as lemmy.zip)
  • quokk.au (blocks feddit.org?)
  • piefed.au (too small?)
  • crust.piefed.social (beta testing for piefed.social)
  • anarchist.nexus (same team as lemmy.dbzer0.com)

It seems like feddit.online and piefed.zip might be the most neutral, general instances, not too big or too small.

What are people’s thoughts on the above list? Any aspects I’ve overlooked?

      • ExtremeDullard@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        Ooh man, this is what put Piefed on my radar, as I have to move two communities away from a failing Lemmy instance and there’s no way to do that in Lemmy. I think I’m gonna give Piefed a serious spin soon.

          • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            1 day ago

            It could use some work though. Subscribers are not ported and there are many nuances with post/comment porting.

            Better than nothing though.

            • Creat@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              3·
              1 day ago

              If you consider how subscribing actually works (or rather: has to work) with federated content, this isn’t surprising. There could be some mechanism that uses the old community and some sort of meta-post to trigger the subscriptions to migrate, but the hard part is making that abuse-resistant. Probably too hard?

              • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
                3·
                1 day ago

                I know that Rimu does want to make it so subscribers from a community migrating are transferred. But I imagine this would only work for users based on piefed instances.

              • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                1 day ago

                One possible method to limit abuse would be manual approval from both instances.

                The Piefed community migration requires a manual request that needs to be approved.

                From my discussions with the world admins, they can actually move subscribers between LW and piefed.world (but unlike piefed.social, they won’t move posts/comments).