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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Started on lemmy.ml, when they were experiencing some performance issues I decided to "be distributed" away from one of the main instances. Decided on one geographically in my home country.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I like the name and it's a smaller server than many which is nice

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Only user on my instance - admittedly this is my mod account not my primary, it still lives elsewhere on one of the main instances. I'm still unsure if running a niche instance that's designed to host communities, if I should also open registration or not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I started on fmhy.ml because I like tech stuff and a piracy instance seemed like a good place to find that sort of thing. It was dead on there though. Posts would have like 6 upvotes and 0-2 comments. Then it just disappeared.

After that I joined the largest instance to get more interaction and uptime... only for DDOS attacks to make lemmy.world have a bunch of downtime. Oh well. Not moving again if I don't have to. I like lemmy.world

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

There is only one true instance: Chapo.chat and if I notice you are commenting from a different instance, you are immediately relegated to SECOND CLASS CITIZENRY in my mind. el-chapo

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Joined programming.dev because it is more related to my interests

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It just works when lemmy.world didn't

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I looked at it, it seemed mostly vanilla, had good servers, didn't have defederation drama like lemmy.world, thought it's cool.

I'd be open to move to a "leftist" lemmy instance, but as a staunch anarchist I'm not really compatible with lemmygrad or hexbear.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I just liked the vibe and name of Kbin. It reminded me of Kerbin, the home planet in Kerbal Space Program.

I later learned it might be the Polish word for magazine. The "subreddits" here are called magazines, but it could also mean like gun magazine. The latter of which I don't really care for (especially as a US user), but in the end, I don't really gaf. It's just a chill place to hang out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

tangentially could make sense considering that karab.in is one of larger instances. the word used in polish ui is "magazyn" which means magazine like storage space or newspaper, the weapons term is diminutive of the former

i think that kbin was supposed to be a open/federated clone of wykop[.]pl, which in turn was more similar to digg than reddit

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Because it is close to "Reddit".

Super lame, but that was the criteria and it made me laugh at myself.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Because unilem has a policy of not defederating from other instances. If I see a post I don't want to see again I can block it, but it's my decision.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This was recommended when I made my account. There weren't any regional communities for where I'm from, so Finland seems as good a choice as any.

I'm not sure I made an informed decision, but if there are real downsides to my choice I haven't noticed them yet. I seem to be able to see the things I want to. I have to use the block button liberally, but I can't see that being instance related. It's largely due to using All at times, and not having strong enough tagging/filtering tools to make that workable without blocking tons of communities that are fine, but not for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

All of the other instances had like 2 users

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We were at a coffee shop. Her names tiff my names biff. We both ordered mocha chapaccino Expresso double almond milk lattes... Both us us grabbed for the same cup when they called our name...

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I liked the name #kbin more than #lemmy, and the integration of #microblogging is a feature I appreciate. IME, lemmy also tends to attract more memes and shitposts, which generally turn me off.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I had an account before I even knew there were many instances. I thought it was just a website.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I just started using kbin.social after not really feeling satisfied with Mastodon personally, wanting something more topical like Lemmy, but I still wanted some Mastodon compatibility due to most of my mutuals on the Fediverse using Mastodon. Landed myself here, so far so good!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

because I made it >:) muahaha

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Started with wirebase.org because it's local, but there was a lot of downtime. Switched to lemmy.sdf.org because they're also local, but are also a really old group that still hosts Usenet stuff. I've recently learned that they have never defederated though, and so I'm considering leaving because I don't believe in giving a platform to obvious disinformation and hate campaigns.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I joined my instance because it's smaller. As a result everything seems a lot more responsive.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use kbin.social mostly because I liked the interface better and I wanted to be contrary, and if I ever self-host it, I'm much more familiar with PHP than Rust.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm on Lemmy.world. I just picked it because it was one of the biggest, but I haven't been entirely happy with it.

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