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I read two things about the fediverse and immediately hopped over here to make an account. Though I had no idea what I was doing, like no idea. Kbin was the first name that popped up and I signed up for it.
Again, no idea what I was doing. Once I did sort of figure out the fediverse I also signed up for Lemmy but I didn't seem to like it as much as Kbin so, I'm sticking here.
I tend to hang in indie game development subreddits and didn't want to have to deal with confrontational trolls on a regular basis, so programming.dev felt like a relatively safe choice since it's neither a super large server or a general-purpose one. I just wanna make lil' games and have little patience for those lacking in empathy and maturity.
Vlemmy.net as it currently hasn't defederated from anyone or been defederated.
I'm new here, do you know if lemm.ee has been defederated either way?
The instances page on each instance shows the instances that it is federating with, and there's a section at the bottom which shows if ilthqt instance is blocking any others.
E.g. https://lemm.ee/instances
I don't know of any way to see if that instance is being blocked by other instances, except to visit the instances page on every instance individually. Which isnt really practical.
I joined sh.itjust.works because my application at lemmy.one was taking a while and I mean, who doesn't want to be a sh.it.head ๐
I prefer kbin's UI to the other federated servers I've tried. Beehaw is probably #2 for me, and it seems like a really nice community. Mastodon.social is also cool but it's a lot more twitter-like which I have a hard time getting used to.
I chose lemmy.world after lemmy.ml closed their registration. Just glad I made my account somewhere.
lemmy.ml says they are overloaded, I then found beehaw but they requires signup application so I say fuck it and choose lemmy.world instead.
It really doesn't matter too much. You can search for communities across the fediverse anyway.
lemmy.world seemed reputable with a straightforward domain name, and no out-of-the-ordinary policies.
I switched off lemmy.ml for two reasons:
So I settled on lemm.ee as it was a general purpose instance that wasn't too big, and the admin is committed to staying around. And of course I was actually able to click on things. It's nice here!
I have four!
Beehaw was my first, when I joined it was 3rd or 4th most users, but had just been upgraded (per a pinned post) and had a cool community vibe. This was like a few days pre protest I think?
Lemmy.one got made on the first day of the mass Exodus, and beehaw was STRUGGLING. I knew the mods were a small team and the server wasnt able to keep up so I went to a less populated instance.
Reddthat.com is new and I haven't used it yet, I went there because it seemed middle of the pack, and I wanted to have an account where I create a community.
And then lemmynsfw is for...actually, I miscounted I only have three accounts.
I'm on Beehaw because there are no downvote button
But what would happen if I down voted you from a different instance?
I don't know but I think there is more chance to get downvoted on the instance you are than on other instances
I started on https://midwest.social (Lemmy) before Kbin was on my radar because I'm from the Midwest. There are things I like about both platforms. I'm spending more time on kbin.social right now because Midwest is having performance issues, but I like the community there, so I may hang out on both and see where the platforms go with development, features, mobile apps, and the feel for the local community.
Ernest's interaction with the community was the primary reason I chose kbin. He seems like a good dude and I have faith in his ability to steer it in a good direction.