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?
1 of them will cause me to change instance:
1: Rude People
2: lemmy.world defederates my instance
3: bad moderation or mods
Unreasonable moderation.
That is to say, I have no problem with reasonable moderation or following well-established rules, but if there comes a point where it seems that the admins and mods are abusing their power, then I would probably lose trust in their leadership of that instance.
I left .world as I felt the communities there were too toxic.
Cool domain name
r1b.it ;)
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.
Me getting too busy to maintain my own server 😅
Twin
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.
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.
Tankieslop.
Honestly, any extremist slop
Same thing. 😂
I’d leave if I felt some controversy for whatever reason but I currently use multiple instances that I switch between anyway.
Content is my primary reason for switching from Lemmy.world to Piefed.social. I just wanted access to the pirating comms and I had to switch for that.
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.
Shitty admins or unreliability would definitely drive me away.
Being well run and powered by renewables would be positives for me.
