What? No Mbin?

Ok fine, sh.itjust.works I guess because it's got a funny name and is powered by renewables. That or the solar punk lemmy.

not sure about best but mine's pretty good

slrpnk.net is the best lemmy instance, not sure yet for piefed

Mine ;)

Previously lemm.ee. Now it’s the .zip instances (lemmy.zip and piefed.zip). Great uptime, admin is cool and regularly posts server updates, fed/defed policies are good, and is usually not involved in instance infighting drama.

The one you feel at home with? I mean, beside technical considerations (how it's working) instances are made of and by people, so yeah: to what place would you rather go spend some time? ;)

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Im just gonna browse /all anyway.

Haven't tried them all but piefed.social is pretty awesome.

The one you host yourself.

But im quite partial to piefed.social 😁

In what sense? Communities hosted there? For use as a home instance?

Like, lemmy.world is the largest instance in terms of hosted communities, so I'd say that it probably wins for many users in that sense of hosting communitirs

if it went down, it'd leave the biggest hole. Some users might want specific instance-wide admin rules and might want that, or might want to partly or entirely use instances on a special-interest instance (e.g. beehaw.org aims to create a "safe space").

But I could easily see that being very different from an instance being the best home instance for a user, have lower latency for them. I mean, I don't have my home instance there. There will be instances that are closer to a given user. Instances that permit larger images to be posted. Instances that provide proxying of images to avoid exposing user IP addresses. For Lemmy instances, there are a number of alternate Web-based frontends, and some instances run those (my home instance, lemmy.today, also runs mlmym at https://old.lemmy.today/, runs Photon at https://photon.lemmy.today/, runs Voyager at https://m.lemmy.today/, and runs Alexanderite at htyps://alexanderite.lemmy.today/). Some instances have custom themes specific to those instances, and what one likes is obviously going to depend upon one's aesthetic preferences. Some instances have different policies on permitted content. Some instances defederate with some other instances, and some don't (lemmy.today has a no defederation policy, but many instances will defederate with, for example, hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, right-wind extremist instances, or instances serving various forms of underage pornography).

I think that it's hard to say that one is clearly "best" there, because what a user wants on that front probably varies a lot from user to user; we aren't all identical in our preferences.