I run my own instance, the benefit is privacy and reliability. Everything is controlled on your own server. You also aren’t reliant on someone else running an instance that could go down at any time, either permanently or an outage. Been a problem with Lemmy.ml recently.

Jerboa for Android and Mlem for iOS, but it's still in test flight.

Yeah that’s what Lemmy started out as. The thing is with all the Reddit refugees flooding in it is diluting out the tankies. Besides, lemmygrad.ml is blocked by many instances. As for the values of the devs the great thing is that Lemmy is FOSS so if they go rouge someone will just make a fork of Lemmy.

The political views of the main devs are controversial but it doesn’t really matter since Lemmy is free and open source. No one owns or runs it. Only lemmy.ml specifically is run by the devs.

I think the fing-longer, if only he could have invented it.

Unfortunately 48 hours probably won’t do anything if they just come back like nothing happened. If the AMA with spez has shown anything it’s that Reddit is not going to back down even with the large protest from the community.

He just publicly admitted Reddit is not profitable and he’s mad that third party apps are. That IPO is not going to go well lol.

Is there an alternative here on Lemmy?

Depends how many people you are hosting for. But what you describe seems overkill, I think Lemmy.ml just upgraded to a 6 core cpu and 32gb of ram and they have 30k+ members.

Lemmy is FOSS so I don’t really think the political views of the developers have much impact.

There are apparently some like [email protected], but they are hard to find since they probably aren’t visible in your home instance, and they don’t show up in the lemmy community browser. You also can’t find them on the instance they are hosted on since you need to be logged in to see nsfw communities.

I doubt they will ever match the original style of Futurama, given that it seems to be a lot of new writers, but I also think new writers will give the new seasons a different style that could end up going either way.

Here.

Reddit is nothing without content, and a lot of active posters and subreddit moderators use third-party apps and bots. Even if it's a small percentage of Reddit users, it's the most engaged users.

You can use the Lemmy community browser

Mlem on iOS TestFlight.

I was referring to the community browser which lets you see all available communities. But yeah you won’t see them in your home instance until they are specifically searched.

I mean I’d imagine the more sugar the more time it will take.

You could host your own Lemmy instance, I think that would do what you want.

as far as I know, lemmy.ca is not using a whitelist. If you leave your allow list empty, you will automatically federate with all available instances. You can see federated and blocked instances at https://lemmy.ca/instances