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?

      • simple@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Zifnab25@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Z______@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Fmstrat@lemmy.oneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

  • Pisck@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.works

      • SickIcarus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Me 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 🤣

        • Kaiser@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I got an account on beehaw, but quickly left. I understood what they’re trying to do, it’s just poorly executed.

    • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Also better because if the admin bans you, you can find them in person and “discuss” about the ban. (such discussions usually involves fists)

      (/s please don’t actually commit a violent act lol)

  • KiranWells@pawb.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Was looking for a furry one, and pawb.social seemed to be well-run (since it was related to a couple of decently-sized Mastodon servers) and was generic enough (and not NSFW focused). There also seemed to be a decent number of technical people there as well (in fact, one of the Mastodon instances is furry.engineer), so it matched up with my other interests as well. I considered lemmyrs.org, but ended up not choosing it.

  • SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    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…

  • ganksy@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    I chose lemmy.world solely on the fact it had a lot of members. Lemmy.ml was a contender too. I just wanted to jump in and check things out. Knowing (slightly)more now, I don’t think it was a bad choice.

  • wumpus@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I was told it was better for load balancing if we didn’t all use the same one. So I just looked for one that had easy signups and didn’t seem overeager to block stuff. Apparently, some from this instance come form /r/china. I’m not, but I do drink coffee. Anyway, I think it’s working out so far; better than reddit anyway.