If I was logged into several instances at once in the client and seeing the composite feed and then could choose instance when replying or posting (with some set default, like from: field in e-mail clients) lemmy.world could ban piracy all it wants and it’d still be in my feed without me having to leave it or change instances.

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    This is why you don’t join the popular instance. Eventually the shitbirds ruin it.

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      Yup, I joined the smallest of the bigger communities and it has worked out pretty well. I’ll probably need to leave eventually once it gets too big, but for now it works well.

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          When I joined, there were about three major instances, and the rest were quite a bit smaller (I.e. <50 users). So I picked the smallest of the big instances (I think it had 500 or so users).

          Basically, I wanted more than 100 or so users to have a better chance of the admin being active enough to respond to issues, but I didn’t want to be with one of the top instances to avoid outages and whatnot.

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              Looking at the numbers now, I’d probably go with tchncs, lemmy.ca, or programming.dev, based largely on userbase, hosting location, and a quick look at the front page. But for now, sh.itjust.works has been pretty reliable, so I haven’t felt the need to switch.

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                  Awesome. :)

                  I’m in the US, and I’d prefer to not have one based here due to stupid local laws. sh.itjust.works is based in Canada, so that works well enough for me.

                  Looking through the top instances, I’m glad to see a lot more diversity in instance locations with lots of users. It used to mostly be US, CA, and Germany (and maybe UK?), but now there’s a lot more.