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.
Ada ( @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English78•2 years agoI’m the admin :P
Tigwyk ( @Tigwyk@lemmy.vrchat-dev.tech ) English10•2 years agoYeah this one right here. I run my own little instance, made it easy to choose.
Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English5•2 years agoOne 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.
MiddledAgedGuy ( @MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org ) English1•2 years agoI like “universe of forums” as a descriptor.
gabe [he/him] ( @gabe@literature.cafe ) 29•2 years agoI’m the admin of mine and also like books and writing
Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English23•2 years agoI followed the Daystrom Institute community from reddit to startrek.website.
Especially_the_lies ( @Especially_the_lies@startrek.website ) English9•2 years agoI 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.
Disgustoid ( @Disgustoid@startrek.website ) English5•2 years agoEven 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.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 23•2 years ago
I started with Lemmy.world but then moved to Lemmy.nz because it was faster.
Fair enough.
DavyJones ( @DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English16•2 years agoPiracy 🏴☠️
What’s not to like.
OverfedRaccoon 🦝 ( @OverfedRaccoon@lemm.ee ) 15•2 years agoStarted 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 is a journey we should tell to our grandkids.
oolong ( @oolong@lemmings.world ) 4•2 years agoThis was my exact trajectory and reasoning, but I ended up adding lemmings.world after that. 😅
Teritz ( @Teritz@feddit.de ) 15•2 years agoGerman Feddit thats it
LifeBandit666 ( @Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ) English3•2 years agoHi there from the UK Feddit!
sverit ( @sverit@feddit.de ) 1•2 years ago🤜🤛
lichtmetzger ( @lichtmetzger@feddit.de ) 1•2 years agoGeil
katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English14•2 years agoThe shark, mostly.
Also because I’m on their Calckey instance too.
And this:
copygirl ( @copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•2 years agoShonk.
AlexTheTurtle ( @AlexTheTurtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•2 years agoShork is love, Shork is life
Naomikho ( @Naomikho@monyet.cc ) English14•2 years agoThere’s an instance for my country so I just joined that one.
cincinmasukmangkok ( @cincinmasukmangkok@lemmy.my.id ) 7•2 years agoSame here & downtime issue with big instances
Dr Cog ( @Dr_Cog@mander.xyz ) 13•2 years agoI’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
luciferofastora ( @luciferofastora@discuss.online ) 13•2 years agoI 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.
m-p{3} ( @mp3@lemmy.ca ) 12•2 years agoThe 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.
crunchpaste ( @crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English12•2 years agoWhen 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.
guts ( @guts@lemmy.ml ) 6•2 years agoHow is the moderation and everything in that instance?
crunchpaste ( @crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•2 years agoThe community has been very calm and respectful so I’ve never really had to think about the moderation. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a deleted comment for example, and I’ve certainly never seen a hateful post or comment.
Other than that, the admin, db0 is quite left-leaning (or at least anti-capitalist), but so am I, so it never really bothered me.
To be completely honest, this is the only instance that I have an account in, so I can’t really compare it to the others, but it just felt like home to me.
comfy ( @comfy@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 years agoI want to say pirate culture has a strong history is deplatforming, so it’s almost instinct to have a migration fallback plan. But I know they used to have a fallback on raddle.me (anarchist reddit clone) when reddit started forcing them not to host or supply links to content. They had good reason to be prepared and it paid off.
ahal ( @ahal@lemmy.ca ) 12•2 years agoI’m Canadian eh
Quill0 ( @Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net ) English12•2 years agoI didn’t want to have my stuff out of my control so I made my own instance.
How is the moderation of your instance?
Quill0 ( @Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net ) English5•2 years agoIt’s not anywhere near the point I need to moderate it. That may change.
I’ve been looking at other instances and put in some defederation that obviously needed to happen.
But because it’s just me and a few friends thus far I don’t need to police much beyond making sure spam bots don’t get in