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?
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.
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
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.
Me getting too busy to maintain my own server 😅
Twin
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.
I’d leave if I felt some controversy for whatever reason but I currently use multiple instances that I switch between anyway.
Shitty admins or unreliability would definitely drive me away.
Being well run and powered by renewables would be positives for me.
I left .world as I felt the communities there were too toxic.
So far I have hopped because the instance shut down (kbin) and for a better user experience from lemmy to piefed.
If I had accidentally joined a tankie instance I would probably hop off once I found out.
when one shuts down.
The ability to, when hopping, actually carry over history from the previous account.
Errors
Probably nothing, lol. I’m already on one of the most blocked and disliked instances and still here after almost 6 years.
Wow, 6 years? You’ve even got me beat. Wear that as a badge of honor! Like I said in another comment, bigger number better, lol
I’m on 3 just for fun. 1 for modding, 1 for all my scrolling, and one for non political scrolling (I block things they aren’t blocked instance wide).
NOT NOW MOM IM NON POLITICAL SCROLLING
