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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€“] Elevator7009@kbin.cafe 4 points 1 year ago

Was looking for a smaller kbin instance to help out with decentralization, saw an ad for kbin.cafe and signed up

[โ€“] faintedheart@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I was on lemmy.world. It has some power tripping admins and also most of the time it is under attack. So I switched to the current one and it is fine and fast and stable most of the time.

[โ€“] Gruntyfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm on lemmy.world.

I joined while lemmy.ml was still the biggest instance. While I was picking an instance, I read that people should consider joining the smaller instances instead of lemmy.ml. I think the idea was to promote horizontal growth across lemmy instead of vertical growth on one instance. I picked lemmy.world because I liked the instance admin running it, and I wanted to help spread out the user base.

Didn't realize that lemmy.world would quickly become the biggest instance and encounter all the growing pains of rapid growth, but I still stick with this instance to be a part of identifying what those growing pains are so they can hopefully be fixed and grow Lemmy into a more mature platform that is capable of scaling up.

[โ€“] Poik@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

An overwhelming desire to never be taken seriously by the average user.

[โ€“] itsmect@monero.town 4 points 1 year ago

Our community always cared a lot about decentralization, so naturally we had to have our own instance, even before the reddit api exodus. It only made sense to use the instance of the community I vibe with. Besides this, we offer:

  • closed signup to limit bot account creation, you need either manual verification or a signup fee for anonymous users
  • high performance instance which is entirely community funded with the signup fees + anonymous donations
  • unlimited access to the fediverse, there's no de-federation unless required by law
[โ€“] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a dev that likes to dabble in new things all the time and I have a pretty varied skillset that includes some DevOps chops. When I left Reddit and deleted my accounts after ~18 years being there, I wanted to be a real contributor to the Fediverse and not just a lurker or commenter. I continually got laughs out of the stories about orcas capsizing yachts, and thus the URL for my instance was born (I wanted it to be more playful and tongue-in-cheek, hence the "enjoying" part).

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[โ€“] dsemy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I initially chose vlemmy.net because it seemed big enough but not too big, and didnโ€™t de/federate for non legal reasons (I can choose what I want to see myself).

Unfortunately it went down, so I moved to lemm.ee which seemed pretty similar but bigger so hopefully it will stick around longer.

[โ€“] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] perezoso@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Picked one with a funny name and the admin seemed quite relaxed but it appears to have gone offline permanently.

[โ€“] mintycactus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The first one was beehaw, idk how I got there, but after a day I realised they have shit policy to prevent me reading things and only allow to read what they decide. Never visited again.

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Well, I created the instance I'm on so it seemed like a logical choice!

I created it primarily because I am a fan of self-hosting stuff, and I also figured it would be a cool way for me to contribute to the Fediverse - even if its not really that large.

[โ€“] Vuipes@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Because I enjoy FMHY resources, it was my primary instance; if it returns without trouble I will remain there. I'm currently at kbin.social since I wanted to try kbin.

[โ€“] frippa@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I joined lemmy.ml because 1 year ago (yes I'm old I know) it was the biggest and most active instance, also it was, very importantly, the most federated with others I believe, the other candidate was lemmygrad but I feared (and that fear came true) fediblocks and defederations

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm on feddit.it because it's an Italian-speaking instance, so I can read local posts from all kinds of subjects in my own language

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[โ€“] FullOfBallooons@leminal.space 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started on lemmy.fmhy.net, then jumped to lemm.ee when I heard about the domain issues. But I wasn't aware of just how big lemm.ee really was, and I like the idea of being on a smaller instance to help with decentralization. I looked around and saw leminal.space and I thought that was a pretty good pun. It was really as simple as that.

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[โ€“] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

It just works when lemmy.world didn't

[โ€“] captain_mud@4wd.social 3 points 1 year ago

Only user on my instance - admittedly this is my mod account not my primary, it still lives elsewhere on one of the main instances. I'm still unsure if running a niche instance that's designed to host communities, if I should also open registration or not.

[โ€“] mimichuu_@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I looked at it, it seemed mostly vanilla, had good servers, didn't have defederation drama like lemmy.world, thought it's cool.

I'd be open to move to a "leftist" lemmy instance, but as a staunch anarchist I'm not really compatible with lemmygrad or hexbear.

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[โ€“] MrShankles@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe

[โ€“] DrBob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't know any better.

[โ€“] SamSpudd@lemmy.lukeog.com 3 points 1 year ago

...I made it xD

[โ€“] Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago
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