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 🤣
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.
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…
Where / how can you see a list of who is (de)federated with whom?
At the bottom of each page, there’s a link for “instances”, which shows who the current instance has blocked.
If you’re Ok with NSFW there is also yiffit.net. As far as I know we aren’t defederated with anyone yet.
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
This is how I ended up on the instance I chose.
Back in my day, the only instance that federated with all other instances was lemmy.ml 👴🏻
The github page said to pick one at rasdom and not over think it.
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
Just watch out for the Kartoffelstampfer
(I just learned that word a week or two ago!)
Thought about switching over, with zero knowledge of this platform, clicked random link in reddit thread and it was lemmy.world. turns out it’s populated and stable.
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.
For the meme.
I was looking for a furry one. Found pawb.social and yiffit. Stuck with the one that had nsfw. They both are Lemmy instances
I just picked lemmy.one mostly at random, but also in part because it advertised itself as well regulated but also not heavily populated and thus prone to crashing with the recent influx of reddfugees.
Seems to work okay, but I can’t create a community without admin approval and the instance also disallows downvoting, and I’m not a big fan of that at all, but I’ll give it a while longer and see.
I’m still finding it a challenge to find the balance of communities that interest me I used to have. There’s an awful lot of meta chatter about the site itself from new users that, while I understand, gets rather annoying when it takes up the whole feed. So it’s definitely an adjustment, resulting in me using it less than I did my old haunts, but in the meantime I’ve gotten a lot more reading done than I used to, so I’ve got that going for me.
Didn’t realize I couldn’t downvote. Might be time to look elsewhere.
Me, I’m waiting for things to settle a bit and see what recommendations float to the surface for me. Not being able to downvote might turn out to actually be good for my own mental health. We’ll see.
I didn’t come here to have my options limited. I’d stay on Reddit if that were the case, and I don’t need another YouTube “remove dislike for my own good” moment.
Context: I rarely used downvotes on Reddit, but there were also pretty involved mods. I could see in this federated world a bit of wildness, and not being able to snuff out the misleading with downvotes could be an issue. I hope I rarely use it here, too, but it will only take not being able to once for it to be a deal-breaker.
Might want to read up on the founder of lemmy.one Jonah and his past dealings. I would not expect a great deal of free speech regarding this topic on your own instance.
https://www.privacytools.io/guides/jonah-aragon-privacyguides-failed-attempt-to-takeover
Kbin because it was the first one that actually let me register and didn’t freeze
Seriously, this. I tried for days to register on Lemmy. One day I was mid-registration and the button was just spinning, doing nothing, so I came over to kbin, registered and started using the site. Lemmy never stopped spinning. No thanks.
Nice username :)
You all need some longer usernames, sheesh.
Gotta get those good names quick
I’m self-hosting my own Lemmy server, which I guess is cheating since I can get any name I want to 😛
It was doing the same thing for me but I checked my email and there was a verification, once I completed it my registration went through. It didn’t actually tell me it was sending an email which is probably a flaw but it seems that’s the missing piece.
Same
