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  • Signed up this account on .world because it was quite small (lol) but seemed competently run. This decision has not worked out great!

    Had my other account on Beehaw so after that whole debacle I had to migrate. Moved that one to lemm.ee because again small and competently run. It's worked out much better over there, people seem to keep flocking to .world for whatever reason so lemm.ee is staying nice and manageable (for now).

    • I had the same thought process.

      Both lemmy.world and lemm.ee seem to be run by communicative people with sysadmin experience, which is really what you need for instance to grow steadily in the long-term.

      • Absolutely, and it's great to see them working together to improve things as a whole rather than just building up their own little fiefdoms.

  • My main one is on lemmy.ml and I'll admit it was just the first one I saw. My second one is on lemmy.blahaj.zone in case something happens to the dev instance.

  • The final update message given out on RIF suggested Lemmy.World and so, here I am.

    Does it matter?

    As I have found with a few niches I've been looking for and only found communities on other instances, it may matter. I can see this post even though I am on Lemmy.World and not Lemmy.ml; but some of the other places I've wanted to look at are not federated with Lemmy.World or are semi-private and require manual authorization by an admin before you can do anything; and they can't authorize a user that doesn't interact with them somehow so I had to make a new account for those instances.

  • I chose Lemmy.world, because it was the one I was hearing the most about. It's a bit slow at the moment, but that's not surprising, given the amount of new users. So far it's been fun. I really hope more and more people show up!

  • Yeah it does kinda matter, which is problematic for onboarding new users. Personally:

    • I read the rules/TOS.
    • I checked the Instances page to make sure instances I wanted to access were linked and not blocked.
    • I looked for any introduction posts to see what the backend infrastructure was like.
    • I checked the username I wanted was available.

    It should not be that complicated, but it also has to be unfortunately. I had to make sure all those things matched what I personally wanted. This much choice is great for heavily-invested tech nerds with free time but sucks for anyone else wanting to join in.

  • It was after the u/spez shit AMA. Wanted Beehawsomething but saw they were restrictive and I had to give a detailed reason to join them, so I didn't. Sh.itjust.works seemed like a website name I would not remember and I wouldn't be able to go too Lemmy.ml was full and we where invited to go to other places Lemmy.world was there and had a nice name, it was for me Now I discovered only 2 days ago that slrpnk.net existed, and If we were able to move instance I would move there, I vibes a lot with the ideals I discovered on Reddit, they even got me to buy plants I take very good care of

    • It's never too late to just create a new account and start using it. Don't feel like you're stuck on an instance. Your old posts won't move over but that's a problem even Mastodon hasn't been able to solve yet. And unlike them there is no concept of followers in Lemmy so you're really not losing anything beyond the time of re-subscribing to all your communities.

  • I found beehaw first, so I started there but then discovered that the admins manage the community creation there. So I made a new account on lemmy.world to mod that, and most browsed with my beehaw account. But then beehaw needed to de-federate from lemmy.world, so I made a vLemmy and lemmy.one accounts so I could interact with both beehaw and lemmy.world.

    tl;dr As someone else mentioned, finding a smaller, low-profile instance to have your home account but interacting with other instances seems to be the best approach

  • I joined lemmy.world because when I first signed up it was still quite a bit smaller than lemmy.ml. I heard that new users should try to make lemmy grow horizontally by joining other instances. I guess joining world wasn't the best choice for achieving that in retrospect 🙂

  • I chose Aussie.zone cause I'm out of touch with my own country so seeing the news here is nice and cause I thought it would be easier to join a country instance.

    Also optional email and I know I could make a temp email but I can't be bothered.

  • I was looking for a lemmy instance that would let me create communities, downvote if I wanted to downvote, and that would take care of troublemakers without being too overly restrictive.

    I also wanted to ease the burden on the very busy lemmy instances that were being overwhelmed by the reddit Exodus.

    It seems I have found a place. The SDF has a very long history of serving several communities in the internet and Linux world. I first ran into them decades ago, and they are still here.

  • So I joined lemmy.world because I use to be a user of reddit is fun, rip, and in their going away message they mentioned .world. So I joined that instance not realizing how the fediverse works.

    Overall what I've seen is the instance you join determines your "front page" since by default it will be set to show local communities. Other than that subscribe to any community from any instance then set your front page to show "subscribed" or "all" and you get your basic Reddit experience

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