this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Does it really matter where you go? It's all federated together anyway, that's the whole point, isn't it?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 days ago (10 children)

One thing you should do is grab your data for easy moving, you haven't already.


Assuming you're using the default Lemmy web UI (not Voyager, or Photon, or a mobile app, or whatever), click on your username in the top right, and select "Settings".

On the settings page, there's a section called "Import/Export Settings". Click the "Export" button and let your browser download the file.

Then, when you switch instances, you can go into the same Settings page on the new instance, select the file you downloaded, and hit "Import" and you will automatically be resubscribed to the communities you subscribed to.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sh.itjust.works and lemmy.zip, not sure if shitjustworks is general purpose actually

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Might i recommend lemmynsfw.com?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago

If you have a favorite community you might take a look at the instance they’re hosted out of.

Beyond that, my general advice is to sort Lemmy instances by number of active users, then pick one that’s somewhere between the 10th and 20th largest.

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