2y ago

What made you choose your instance?

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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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 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.

Irreverent commentary, staunchly pro LGBT community, correct opinions
- correct opinions
  Smh fucking liberal
  
  Happy Molotov day
- Best emojis

Come for the dirt bag leftism, stay for the aggressive anti-bigotry initiatives and correct takes.

I was on lemmygrad at first but then they banned me for being a liberal so now I'm on hexbear

- aww I want a bear
  
  We got em
  
  we also have
  in every possible pride flag
  
  and more

I'm the admin of mine and also like books and writing
- US VPS & eastern standard time

Im a communist
- I am also a communist but I don't want to be on a widely defederated server.
  
  that's totally valid! I spend 95% of my time on lemmygrad (and now hexbear) comms anyways, so it doesn't really matter to me other than being annoying when I have to make sure I'm not wasting my time commenting something to a user of a defederated instance

I’ve been on Hexbear the entire time. It’s inclusive, yet has zero tolerance for reactionary attitudes.
Also since federation we actually have been complaining the quality of posts we see have gone down. You all lack an energy that made r/cth and hexbear such a breath of fresh air.

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 joined chacha as a lifeboat years ago when the CTH reddit got banned and stayed as it became Ursus hexagonalis. the lack of ads, the memes, irreverence for institutions combined with respect for humans, and the absolute god-tier emoji selection is what keeps me here.

also, the megathread topics are very interesting/informative as a People's History, since many of the stories come from the "periphery" for all my world systems nerds out there. living in the imperial core, the constant cacophony of cultural outputs and hegemonic discourses, i appreciate any channel that connects me with post-colonial narratives, critical theory, etc.

Been here on Chapo chat, now hexbear since the beginning. Joined before federation was even a thing. Only instance with mandatory pronouns, one of a few with good political takes.

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.

I still remember the sub
- He may have been stopped at Harper's Ferry, but his soul goes marching on
- Back in my day we didn’t have these, “bears”.
- I'm so thankful I was able to lifeboat during the Discord Interregnum and land safely on these shores
  
  Hard same
  
  I'm not, because the Discord drama sucked

Piracy 🏴‍☠️

moved there from lemmy.world because of downtime and also unclear, sloppy defederation policies. i've never seen a clear explanation why it took a month to defederate exploding heads (allowing their userbase to grow 3x) and week for rammy site, but hexbear gets defederated "preemptively". ???
also now i see beehaw content which is something i didn't expected, but it's cool

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.

I just showed up one day. I'm pretty sure these fuckers kidnapped and brainwashed me into their weird cult.

I’ve just been here since CTH got binned.
I have no plans to look anywhere else. I think federation is a fad, and I won’t participate elsewhere.

I was on r/chapotraphouse before we got banned from Reddit. I joined chapo.chat after it was made by old r/cth users, and chacha became hexbear.net like maybe a year later.

Honestly, I liked that they followed electoral politics, helping me fulfill my sick, taboo desires.
- Me transforming into a lib whenever there's an election to follow
  
  Too real 😔
- helping me fulfill my sick, taboo desires
  Filthy

The shark, mostly.
Also because I'm on their Calckey instance too.
And this:

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.

I'd rather comrades than liberals where my home instance is concerned; but I didn't have a temperature gauge for what hexbear posted like. Might make a hexbear alt in case something happens to the grad, tho; they're good folks so far.

There's an instance for my country so I just joined that one.

Because it has a tank logo
- Look at this dope ass ~~bear~~ tank!
  
  Why not both?

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

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 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.

It's the most based one.

I'm Canadian eh

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

Because only lemmy.ml was popular 2 years ago.

I was born in it, Molded by it
I hate America

I saw blahaj and I was sold

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

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.

German Feddit thats it

Putin pays me to post there

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.

I built my own 😁

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.

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

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.)

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.

Karl Barx

I like science and Mander has a lot of neat science communities. I also keep a back up account for Lemmy.world.
- I want to check out this instance because I found some cool communities on there!

I missread beehaw as yeehaw, was only slightly dissapointed when I noticed.

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

Yarr 🏴‍☠️
- Hello fellow Spartan.

I started out on Lemmy.world because it seemed like it was going to be home to the most communities, and people seemed to like & respect the admin.
But I also work on software, and I’m here for all the computer nerd shit Lemmy has to offer. Plus World has had uptime issues. So programming.dev seemed like a good home instance to try out, even if I’m interacting with a bunch of communities on World too.
- I am no dev, neither programmer, but I like all the world that comes with it, I self host some shit and my Linux machine is a Synology NAS, I would be lying if I say I am not interested at all in your community.
  
  Myyy community? ☺️
  And thanks for the first reply to what may be my forever account, lol.

I was told, by someone I know in a local Discord, that it was a reddit replacement for Midwest leftists. At the time I didn't know what Lemmy was. Now that I'm using it in place of reddit, it's performing very well. I like our local instance a lot. I am tempted to move to Startrek.website though, just because I'm a huge nerd
- I'm so glad we federate with you so I can Ohio post
- Oh hai another midwest.social

I chose Lemmy World simply because it was there. It was literally the first one that popped up and I had no clue how Lemmy worked so I chose that one.

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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