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Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I'm intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don't know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it.

That made me curious of how you decided to join?

I firstly join to lemmy.fmhy.ml thanks to Spez and a Reddit post from FMHY subreddit, then the tragedy occurred, then I joined to lemmy.world which is/was my main one because I pictured it like a good home, then lemmy.fmhy.net revived and I am with them too, but seems like they are in a bit of trouble with the server, finally now I am in lemm.ee, but only because I just wanted another backup, not because I searched for it especially (also it was mentioned in a comment about smaller instances and one user from here throw a joke to not join here because it sucks so that way the server would be more stable, so yeah, I joined).

To be clear I am not in search for yet another instance (that sounds like a good instance name to be fair), I just want to know how the deciding process is for you, is it just random? Is it because of personal tastes?

I couldn't care less about NSFW stuff, I don't search for it specifically, but my day won't be ruined if I see a tit.

I like gaming, tech, Linux, SBC gaming, emulation, macOS, Android stuff etc (yeah how original) should I look for an instance dedicated to that if I ever want to join yet another one? Because I see topics like this in almost any instance.

I read you lemmings!

EDIT: BTW the migration process has been easier for me thanks to LASIM, so I wouldn't be scared if I ever want/have to migrate again.

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[โ€“] ahal@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

I'm Canadian eh

[โ€“] Krause@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because it has a tank logo

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[โ€“] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Because only lemmy.ml was popular 2 years ago.

[โ€“] Teritz@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean I joined it 3 years ago because I followed r/cth from reddit and for a while it was pretty much the only active instance

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I joined Lemmygrad because I came from GenZedong, and stayed there

[โ€“] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When the reddit went bad I started looking for anti-corporate communities that would migrate.

r/cyberpunk was the first place I checked, but there was no discussion about migrating at all there. r/selfhosted was another obvious idea but people there seemed very reluctant as well.

The only sub that pointed to some clear migration path was r/piracy. I really appreciate the integrity of dbzer0 in this situation.

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[โ€“] stark@qlemmy.com 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I saw blahaj and I was sold

[โ€“] jack@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Hexbear sees and respects blahaj blahaj transshork-happy

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[โ€“] thesilencenoise@waveform.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started on Beehaw but created a second account on lemmy.world since I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing any content. Once the slowdowns started I took a deeper dive into different instances and saw there was one centered around music and production and this would fit me best. I still use all three but I still think this will be home for me.

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[โ€“] chrisbit@leminal.space 14 points 1 year ago

I'm the admin. Why? Because I enjoy doing, it's in the spirit of decentralisation, and I didn't want to risk being part of an instance that defederates from leftist instances like Lemmygrad or Hexbear.

[โ€“] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

It's the most based one.

[โ€“] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

I'm a scientist so I joined the instance that seemed to match my interests the best. I like browsing Local and seeing all the other science posts as well

[โ€“] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't want to have my stuff out of my control so I made my own instance.

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[โ€“] Psythik@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IDK I just kinda ended up here. The domain is easy to memorize, I guess.

(Edit: And it never goes down cause no one uses it.)

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[โ€“] Aviandelight@mander.xyz 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like science and Mander has a lot of neat science communities. I also keep a back up account for Lemmy.world.

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[โ€“] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

I was born in it, Molded by it

I hate America

[โ€“] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Putin pays me to post there

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[โ€“] guts@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found some power tripping mods in some instances, lemmy.ml seems fairly neutral.

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[โ€“] psysok@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I first joined Lemmy.ml and beehaw because when I joined those were pretty much the only active English language instances. I moved to lemmy.ca because Lemmy.ml started going down more when redditors showed up, and I didn't like beehaw's "defederate now and sort it out later" attitude. Plus I figured going with a mid sized instance is best. They aren't going to get overloaded because they are too big, and aren't going to shut down due to lack of interest either.

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[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't pick one.

I spread that shit out over a bunch of instances.

Decentralized myself lol. There's no need to think of lemmy in terms of a single home. You can do that, but I prefer to think of it as a bunch of crash pads. Bounce between them as needed, maintain the accounts, and even if one homie can't put you up for the night, another one can.

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[โ€“] owiseedoubleyou@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I was initially on lemmy.world, but the frequent DDOS attacks and the fact that Hexbear and Beehaw had defederated from it really put me off. Also, communities like !linux and !privacy were much bigger on lemmy.ml compared to lemmy.world.

Soo I jumped ship to lemmy.ml

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[โ€“] space_frog@lemmyfly.org 11 points 1 year ago

I like planes

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