Nowadays I just recommend Piefed.zip.

If someone wants a regional instance they usually figure it out by themselves, also the Piefed instance chooser can help and has a latency indicator: https://piefed.social/post/1337079

For the nationale behind, here’s a list from a post on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com that’s a few months old https://lemmy.zip/c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com?dataType=Post&pageCursor=P2d1f586&sort=NewComments

• Lemmy.world is too big
• sh.itjust.works names contains “shit”, which can deter users
• lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
• feddit.org, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
• dbzer0 is focus centric
• programming.dev is topic-centric
• blahaj is queer-focused
• discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
• lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
• beehaw defederates LW and SJW
• infosec.pub is topic-centric
• aussie.zone is country-centric
• midwest.social is region-centric and admin can power trip at times (https://sopuli.xyz/post/20038037)

Admins usually don’t want to allow direct registrations without email validation as it makes it too easy for spammers

Provider doesn’t really have any downside

https://lemmy.zip/search?q=forumverse&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll&titleOnly=false

Then again I suppose if you have to do that then that defeats the purpose of the term, doesn’t it.

Yes, that’s the biggest issue.

Here is a 6 months old thread with other suggestions, some sound completely silly, some of them were nice: https://lemmy.zip/post/33451610

Yes, regularly on https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/ , when threads are posted on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Reddit users are already familiar with the Threadiverse UI, and usually are reluctant to use anything “Fediverse” due to the issues with content discovery on Mastodon.

Showing them that there is a subpart of the Fediverse that have a similar UI to Reddit and solves most of the content discovery issues of Mastodon can help to make them give the platforms a try.

If you talk to someone who’s not here about the “Threadiverse” they are instantly going to think it’s related to Meta’s Threads.

I like the name I use it a lot, don’t get me wrong, but that’s still an issue.

So many times I’ve looked for it

You can also follow people on Mbin too, and that’s good, but still at the moment, none of the most active Threadiverse software (Lemmy and Piefed) allow their users to.

Those limits might be “artificial”, but on the other hand, most of the userbase here has been around for more than 2 years now, and they still can’t follow other users.

But Threads is now the Meta platform. No ideal solution, really.

Yes. Not being able to follow people isn’t just a UI question, it’s a core feature of the platform, and one of the main differences between microblogging and forums

Threadiverse vs Forumverse, not sure if there’s a clear winner, I see both used interchangeably

Also the browser cache usage is significantly reduced.

Good news!

I’ll edit the comment, along the lines of ‘people were still using Lemmy even with that in place’

edit: done

Thank you for the detailed answer. I’m going to be honest, I don’t have the time to check all of this, and being insulted here in the last few days (https://lemmy.ml/modlog/14810) doesn’t really incite me to keep coming back to this thread (I made an exception for Jet as he didn’t have access to the other thread on SJW)

I summarized my view on the whole thing in this comment: https://lemmy.ml/post/35392790/20764278

Coming back to the Piefed default blocking list, I investigated more, here is what an admin setting up an instance experience is like (https://wetshav.ing/comment/92409)

I’m on my computer now, so I’ll type out some more detail if you’re interested. To reiterate, I’m just going off memory and it was two weeks ago so I could very well be making stuff up…

The pre-filled input box asked for each blocked instance to go on a new line, so:

lemmy.world  
lemmy.ml  
lemmygrad.ml  
hexbear.net  
lemmy.zip  
piefed.social  
etc...  

I deleted all of the defaults and that was it. I’ll put a screenshot of the settings page that’s available to admins below:

I agree it should be improved to make it fully optional, but it’s still acceptable for now. I guess we disagree on that, and that’s fine, hopefully one day the change will be made.

All good then, see you around

Indeed, I agree with what you are saying, but the quoted comment is still incorrect. A fork is not required to change the configuration of the federation list.

A fork could be made later following what you just said, but that’s not what was being said in the quoted comment.

1. Trying to help, I know how tedious it can be sometimes
2. As I said, it can be improved, but we probably disagree on the importance on that problem. It’s minor for some people due to how easy the configuration can be changed, it’s more important for other people. Everybody will have their opinion on the matter.
3. I think you misunderstood. Here’s the comment I was referring too

I get not wanting to federate with specific instances but the way this works is to just automatically make it one way only unless the person using their fork manually changes it.

This comment implies that admins need to create a fork to modify the federation list. This is incorrect, it’s a configuration change.

Let me just reach out to the admin I quoted above. I’m not sure about the details of what they had to do during setup, maybe it’s even easier that we thought.

Given this is the only place I have found this discussion happening in a productive way, we shouldn’t sidetrack it.

There is this post as well: https://hackertalks.com/post/15572214?scrollToComments=true

Comment from Rimu there: https://hackertalks.com/post/15572214/10757273

I understand other commenters frustrations with your counters, it feels like a dismissal, this is a real problem affecting real users today and they have legitimate grievance. .

Other commenters also state that changing those settings requires to fork the project, when it’s just a settings modification

https://lemmy.zip/post/47272125/21126381

Frustration goes both ways

Edit: I did, I just pinged you there: https://hackertalks.com/post/15572214/10761436

unless the person using their fork manually changes it.

Updating the defederation blocklist is done via the admin UI. A fork implies having to recreate the source code and modify it. This is different.

Recent comment from another admin

This is exactly how it works. I started a PieFed instance and made the decision (during setup) to trim the defederation list down to none. Users can block on the account level.

https://wetshav.ing/comment/92409