I’m currently struggling to find my home. I have an account here at lemmy.ml, where most of my posts are, and one at kbin.
Why do you think your instance is the place to be?
I did not. I ended up on lemmy.world but visiting over, which I think is a cool feature.
I guess a better question would have been, “Why did you choose your instance?”
Lemmy World is run by chill people with experience. They run Mastodon.world, which is a top 10 Mastodon instance.
Since the start it’s been the most stable instance I think, they bought a beefy server after all the Reddit shenanigans and aren’t imposing any weird restrictions. Would recommend.
I joined sh.itjust.works because I like the domain. It makes me smile 🙂
I read the thread where that domain was born, lol. It was pretty funny.
I kind of wish they chose “fedd.itjust.works” which was the other suggestion in that thread. “sh.itjust.works” is funny but looks like it’s a shitposting instance.
I like the domain and it wasn’t overloaded like most of the Lemmy.xx ones. I was torn between this and beehaw, glad i went with
sh.itjust.worksMe too. I actually put in an application for an account on Beehaw on day 1 just because they seemed to be the most active (before I understood how any of this works.) Never got a reply - I think we both dodged a bullet 🤣
feddit.de because it was made for german potatoes like me
Potatoes unite!
Munching on fries rn is this cannabilism?
Yes and I’ve contacted the authorities thanks for the tip
Not gonna lie. I’ve got multiple accounts across platforms. But yours seems to be responding quickly and the content is solid, so… here I am.
Yeah, I was a bit confused at the start and in my haste created a few different accounts across kbin, lemmy.world, and Mastodon. Worst case scenario I have backups and I’ll just end up using the instance I prefer the most, the most.
The github page said to pick one at rasdom and not over think it.
I joined mander.xyz because it has a central theme around the natural sciences. It could possibly include STEM content as well; there is an ongoing discussion about it. The admin(s) are present and very responsive.
For anyone with a love of science and/or nature I recommend it highly as a home instance of Lemmy.
I’m trying to set up another account at mander but I haven’t had any success.
Really?! That is strange. I just tested account creation and it appears to work fine. What error are you getting?
Looks cool! If i ever need to switch instances, I know where I’m going
I joined lemmy.ml because the join-lemmy site gave me extremely little to go on. It was a coin toss between this and beehaw.org once I realized how few instances were established and not right-wing.
That was only 2 weeks ago and already I’ve seen the site force 2 server upgrades, even as the admins have strongly encouraged new users to join elsewhere to prevent centralization.
The instance list desperately needs a few columns added, including whether new signups are encouraged or discouraged.
I can highly recommend this list: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
I joined Beehaw early on when things where a lot quieter because I liked what they were trying to do (and back then there were only like two instances, and I didn’t want to put more load on lemmy.ml).
Joined sh.itjust.works to make a community after the sysadmin just casually walked up with a huge server, which is a level of swagger I can get behind. I’ve since moved to this as my “main” account since Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (which sucks, but is understandable).
May move again to pawb.social at some point, although that means people will know something about me. :P
Edit: And now pawb.social has defederated with sh.itjust.works… I’m getting more and more tempted to just roll my own personal instance just for me…
Back in my day, the only instance that federated with all other instances was lemmy.ml 👴🏻
I landed at vlemmy.net. I tried to register at a few bigger ones that gave infinite circles. By the time I got to vlemmy I wasn’t really being too picky anymore, I was just trying to figure out if the problem was me or overloading.
A nice side effect of landing there is that some of my very few subscriptions are on beehaw, and we haven’t been defederated.
Yeah, I’m on lemmy.one because of that issue too.
Was looking for a furry one, and pawb.social seemed to be well-run (since it was related to a couple of decently-sized Mastodon servers) and was generic enough (and not NSFW focused). There also seemed to be a decent number of technical people there as well (in fact, one of the Mastodon instances is furry.engineer), so it matched up with my other interests as well. I considered lemmyrs.org, but ended up not choosing it.
same, went for the furry one.
For the meme.
Knowing that Beehaw and Lemmy.ml were overloaded, I chose the next biggest one in my country at the time, which was Lemmy.one.
feddit.dk. I wanted a regional instance as my home instance, because they tend to be chill with controlled growth, while also having native language discussions. My country didn’t have a Lemmy instance at the time, so I picked the closest option. I love Denmark and they don’t seem too annoyed by my presence (yet). Thanks for having me 🫶🏻 🇩🇰
Well, my Swedish is nonexistent so you’re definitely giving my brain a workout when I read your contributions at feddit.dk xD
But we’re happy to have you, the more the merrier!
Oh no! I read a lot of Danish forums and got so used to reading it that I assumed everyone can easily read what I’m writing. Should I attempt to write in Danish? I don’t know what’s worse, subjecting you all to the devil language or Danish that is full of errors…
To be honest I think it’s good for me to work on my language skills. I’ve been seriously neglecting German and Nordic languages in favour of excelling in English, which is a bit dumb given that I like vacationing in our neighboring countries.
So for me it isn’t a problem as long as you don’t mind me using DeepL for the difficult parts :p
Speaking about regional instances, does anyone know if there’s a Swedish instance?
Ja, vi har en feddit.nu! It’s still quiet there because it didn’t have an advertising campaign during the Reddit blackout, but I’m going to contribute to it more to help it grow, and hopefully it’ll get even more members after July 1st!
I chose lemmy.world solely on the fact it had a lot of members. Lemmy.ml was a contender too. I just wanted to jump in and check things out. Knowing (slightly)more now, I don’t think it was a bad choice.
