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?

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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
        1·
        2 years ago

        Good to know. Most of that stuff is way too esoteric and over my head. I just want to be able to talk about movies and Star Trek with other fans without all the damned corpo-capitalist bullcrap. Looks like I need to keep shopping for an instance that joves with that ethos, because this clearly ain’t it with a guy like that running it.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        2 years 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.

      • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I kind of wish they chose “fedd.itjust.works” which was the other suggestion in that thread. “sh.itjust.works” is funny but looks like it’s a shitposting instance.

    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      2 years 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
        1·
        2 years 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·
          2 years ago

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

  • hotdogcostanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    lemm.ee said it was newcomer-friendly and I was a newcomer so bingo bango there I went. I suppose I can always join a different instance if I need to but I’m still just getting a grip on this place so I’m good for now.

  • ganksy@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years 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.

  • mayniac@feddiverse.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I created my own instance so that I know it will not just “go away”.

    Edit: I have a feeling that a lot of instances, besides the big ones, will vanish after the newness wears off.

  • wumpus@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    3·
    2 years 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.

  • Cyder@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Knowing that Beehaw and Lemmy.ml were overloaded, I chose the next biggest one in my country at the time, which was Lemmy.one.

  • SinJab0n@mujico.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I actually made my home in the one hosting a previous reddit community I was fond of, just choose one u like.

  • KiranWells@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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.

  • TanknSpank@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    This was linked on some post about alternatives to that other site I want to stop using. And honestly I’m quite confused on the “it doesn’t matter/it does matter” so I’m just rolling with it and not trying to worry about it.

      • MaXsteri@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 years ago

    I chose beehaw. I chose wrong. So now I’m on lemmy.world and nothing was lost 😎

  • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyzEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I joined mander.xyz because it has a central theme around the natural sciences. It could possibly include STEM content as well; there is an ongoing discussion about it. The admin(s) are present and very responsive.

    For anyone with a love of science and/or nature I recommend it highly as a home instance of Lemmy.

    • elavat0r@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Mander has been lovely so far. Plenty of interesting content and chill people. It was the first instance I saw when browsing that looked friendly and yet didn’t require me to write an essay to register an account.

      • Salamander@mander.xyz
        2·
        2 years ago

        Really?! That is strange. I just tested account creation and it appears to work fine. What error are you getting?

      • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz
        1·
        2 years ago

        Hmm. The server is up right now. Does it give an error or just sit there?

        I can say I’ve had horrible luck trying to sign up through the apps. It works much better through a standard browser for initial sign up.

  • axzxc1236@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Zifnab25@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years 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·
      2 years 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.