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 ) English77•11 months ago
I’m the admin :P
- Tigwyk ( @Tigwyk@lemmy.vrchat-dev.tech ) English10•11 months ago
Yeah this one right here. I run my own little instance, made it easy to choose.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
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.
- MiddledAgedGuy ( @MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
I like “universe of forums” as a descriptor.
- gabe [he/him] ( @gabe@literature.cafe ) 29•11 months ago
I’m the admin of mine and also like books and writing
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English25•11 months ago
Beehaw cuz I heard they had strong moderation and don’t shy away from defederation. Also bees.
- Samus Crankpork ( @Crankpork@beehaw.org ) English8•11 months ago
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.
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) English4•11 months ago
I’ve been in one other community with the same moderation style and I think it works great 🐝
- MadMenace [she/her] ( @MadMenace@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
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.
- anon6789 ( @anon6789@beehaw.org ) English6•11 months ago
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.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months ago
Let’s say they became evil, and made their own beehaw uniforms, wouldn’t you want one just because it is bee themed?
- Dethedrus ( @Dethedrus@beehaw.org ) English6•11 months ago
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.
- Elise ( @xilliah@beehaw.org ) English3•11 months ago
Hey, that’s curious, I haven’t posted anything nasty so far. Thanks for the update Kratoz.
- Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English23•11 months ago
I followed the Daystrom Institute community from reddit to startrek.website.
- Especially_the_lies ( @Especially_the_lies@startrek.website ) English9•11 months ago
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.
- Disgustoid ( @Disgustoid@startrek.website ) English5•11 months ago
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.
- ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶ ( @luthis@lemmy.nz ) 23•11 months ago
I started with Lemmy.world but then moved to Lemmy.nz because it was faster.
Fair enough.
- DavyJones ( @DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English16•11 months ago
Piracy 🏴☠️
What’s not to like.
- OverfedRaccoon 🦝 ( @OverfedRaccoon@lemm.ee ) 15•11 months ago
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. 😂
- oolong ( @oolong@lemmings.world ) 4•11 months ago
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.
- Teritz ( @Teritz@feddit.de ) 15•11 months ago
German Feddit thats it
- LifeBandit666 ( @Lifebandit666@feddit.uk ) English3•11 months ago
Hi there from the UK Feddit!
- lichtmetzger ( @lichtmetzger@feddit.de ) 1•11 months ago
Geil
- sverit ( @sverit@feddit.de ) 1•11 months ago
🤜🤛
- Naomikho ( @Naomikho@monyet.cc ) English14•11 months ago
There’s an instance for my country so I just joined that one.
- cincinmasukmangkok ( @cincinmasukmangkok@lemmy.my.id ) 7•11 months ago
Same here & downtime issue with big instances
- katy ✨ ( @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English14•11 months ago
The shark, mostly.
Also because I’m on their Calckey instance too.
And this:
- copygirl ( @copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English4•11 months ago
Shonk.
- AlexTheTurtle ( @AlexTheTurtle@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•11 months ago
Shork is love, Shork is life
- Dr Cog ( @Dr_Cog@mander.xyz ) 13•11 months ago
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
- luciferofastora ( @luciferofastora@discuss.online ) 13•11 months ago
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.
- crunchpaste ( @crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English12•11 months ago
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.
- guts ( @guts@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months ago
How is the moderation and everything in that instance?
- crunchpaste ( @crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English8•11 months ago
The 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•11 months ago
I 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.
- Mandy ( @Mandy@beehaw.org ) English12•11 months ago
I missread beehaw as yeehaw, was only slightly dissapointed when I noticed.
- ahal ( @ahal@lemmy.ca ) 12•11 months ago
I’m Canadian eh