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.
I’m the admin :P
Why’d you start an instance?
We started a regular fediverse instance because we wanted a space for queer and gender diverse folk to be safe, on something that wasn’t Mastodon or Mastodon derived.
Once we had that running, we spun up a lemmy instance just to check it out, and it sat there basically only used by me, until Reddit Day came along, and our userbase went from 3 to 3000 in the space of a week. So now, our lemmy instance serves the same purpose as our main instance, which is to provide a safe space for our community, but focused on lemmy/the threadiverse
It’s good to hear that even small instances benefitted from Reddit Day and not just lemmy.world
Every instance that pre-dated Reddit Day saw crazy growth during the migration.
We were around long before lemmy.world, and despite the small userbase, we had a couple of popular (at the time) communities used by the rest of the lemmyverse.
And a thank you for the safe space! It’s what drew me to your instance when I found it!
Especially since most of what I was browsing on Reddit was trans or queer subs.
Yes! Big same
It’s a good option for when you want to follow every instance and not be beholden to the server admin randomly de-federating an instance they don’t agree with personally (which was one one of the issues Reddit faced, mods with their own agenda)
If you run your own instance you can choose exactly what you get to interact with
Yeah this one right here. I run my own little instance, made it easy to choose.
One of my favorite parts of lemmy has been seeing what niche servers users come in from. The interconnectivity makes it feel like a universe of forums.
The smaller community sizes adds to that forum-vibe, I think.
I like “universe of forums” as a descriptor.
I’m the admin of mine and also like books and writing
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I started with Lemmy.world but then moved to Lemmy.nz because it was faster.
Fair enough.
I’m on both, but using memmy on iOS I really don’t even notice which instance I’m on anymore. It takes me back to using Apollo
I followed the Daystrom Institute community from reddit to startrek.website.
I have a few different accounts. One on lemmy.world, but that’s been down so much, I decided I needed a backup, and quite frankly, the fact that there’s an entire Trek instance made my choice of a backup a no-brainer.
Even though I was on Reddit for 9 years, I never frequented r/startrek until this year and saw the mod posts about starting a fresh Lemmy instance. Being a member of the Federation in the Fediverse just really appealed to my geek brain.
Beehaw cuz I heard they had strong moderation and don’t shy away from defederation. Also bees.
Beehaw for basically the same reasons. I liked the low tolerance for bad faith arguments in addition to the strong moderation and defederation from the “Free speech” (free to say what?) Wild West instances. It’s a good instance for user safety and maintaining mental health.
I’ve got a startrek.website account as backup.
I’ve been in one other community with the same moderation style and I think it works great 🐝
I only had an account on kbin for a couple weeks before I got fed up with the trolls and bad faith arguments from other instances and jumped ship to beehaw.
I have a few accounts, but mainly stick to Beehaw at this point. It just feels different in a good way.
It seems to have died down now, but there seemed to be much hate for it for a week or so after the great Reddit migration. That was originally what got me to try it though.
Let’s say they became evil, and made their own beehaw uniforms, wouldn’t you want one just because it is bee themed?
Same. I still have other accounts, but this is my preference by a country mile.
Hi fellow Beehaw user, I couldn’t see you in my lemmy.world account.
Hey, that’s curious, I haven’t posted anything nasty so far. Thanks for the update Kratoz.
Shit just works. Except when it goes down. But mostly. Still, the name is fire.
Yeah I have stated before I chuckle when your instance is down, merely because of the name lol.
I would have choose this one but went to lemmy.world.
Piracy 🏴☠️
What’s not to like.
Started on kbin.social and beehaw.org. Realized I liked Lemmy just a little more early on and stuck with Beehaw. But then they started to defederate from larger instances with open signups. So I joined lemmy.world to be part of the bigger picture. Then it got too big and people want to play the DDoS game, so now I’ve got this alt on lemm.ee as well. We’ll see where it goes from here. 😂
This was my exact trajectory and reasoning, but I ended up adding lemmings.world after that. 😅
This is a journey we should tell to our grandkids.
The shark, mostly.
Also because I’m on their Calckey instance too.
And this:
German Feddit thats it
Hi there from the UK Feddit!
🤜🤛
Geil
There’s an instance for my country so I just joined that one.
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
The server is hosted in my country, the TLD belongs to my country and the current admins seem chill and dedicated to make it work. Hopefully that’s the recipe to it’s longevity.
Once they add some donation method I’ll gladly donate and if they need help I’ll gladly offer my technical knowledge.
I’m Canadian eh
I googled about lemmy, found a blog post to introduce the whole concept, they linked an instance recommendation thing based on (if I understood correctly) the uptime, (de)federation and user count of the instance, and I just clicked one of the suggestions. So many posts claimed that it doesn’t make a great difference that I eventually decided to toss my overoptimisation habit and take what was suggested to me.
But I’m still learning my way around here, who knows if this will stay my forever home.
