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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I read some comments that lemmy.ca was well run to the extent that it was being recommended even by non-Canadians. Being Canadian myself, that was good enough for me.

It's a friendly instance and is well-run. The admin manually approved registrations which kept them safe from the great bot invasion and is now upgrading the server and bringing on more admins.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally just picked the biggest one to maximise the content I see

Rn it matters a bit, wont in a few weeks tho i think

[–] god 1 points 1 year ago

Why won't it? Do you think updates will make the fragmentation of content better in a few weeks?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world was the only server where I could make an account during the busier days of reddit immigration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was the most upvoted comment on "how to get started with Lemmy". Also, some of these other places have super strange names, I get that it doesn't matter but when you know nothing it gives bad vibes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was going to choose sopuli.xyz but you need to give them a reason to why you want there and I never heard back from them and logging in does nothing, so I assume I was not selected. I say it would be fair if there was some message to go f myself so that I wouldn't be held in eternal limbo.

So I chose lemmy.world as it's a general purpose instance and immediate registry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I joined latte.isnot.coffee because its description said it was specifically for Reddit refugees. I'm a little worried it may be run by pro-CCP tankies, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I run my own private instance so I am in control over my own data.

Tbh, I don’t think it matters what server you choose. Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, and Beehaw seem to be the big ones so picking a server that federates with those would be ideal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I frequently see Stux on mastodon, and I think they're a good person so I decided to choose one of their instances when choosing a Lemmy server.

[–] Iteria 1 points 1 year ago

I tried to join programming.dev but they were having a tech problem. I wanted to join them because I learned about lemmy through the programee space. I hopped to lemmy.world and then immediately realized that was a bad idea for future stability. It was leggy and the flood hadn't even begun. Then I learned about sh.itjust.works and I picked it for stability reasons and having a decent amount of users. I stayed because I'm digging it for now and it was totally stable through the flood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I picked Lemmy.world because I wanted a fairly large one that will likely maintain support.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml was the only general purpose instance when I opened my account. There were only two instances back then - lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I tried a few, at one point a few weeks ago I thought I would stick with lemmy.world because (then) it wasn't the most popular instance and seemed to have good resources... but then it became the most popular instance and got defederated by beehaw (and I was subscribed to a few beehaw communities). So I signed up to feddit.uk just because I'm from the UK and it seemed solid. I think if you have no strong niche interest then picking one made for your region/country is a pretty good bet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It was that or Beehaw and Beehaw happened to be down at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was looking for a smaller instance (to help spread out the lemmy load a bit) which doesn't block many instances so I don't risk having an instance I want to see blocked. By the way I also use Arch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I saw a local instance for new Zealanders and joined.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I added an account to a few geared towards specific community types. Then I can easily switch accounts and view local.

I'm considering standing up an instance for this type of thing myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trans, pan, 196, and Blahaj is friend.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw a youtube video that said lemmy.ml was full so you can't join. I just picked a random one that wasn't ml so I chose lemmy.world

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I picked lemmy.world because it was recommended and had a large userbase. I know Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjustwor.ks, so if you want to interact with that community, that could be a consideration against, but since the user population across all of Lemmy is currently increasing dramatically, I think everything's a bit of a moving target regardless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I tried to find a server that isn't blocking anyone, and hasn't been defederated by any of the big servers.

I want to avoid an echo-chamber and have access to everything on the fediverse, including stuff I find distateful. If anything really bothers me I will block the community/instance myself, I don't want others making that choice for me.

Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of folks out there just searching for an excuse to clutch their pearls, rile up a mob, and defederate anything and everything that offends them.

I don't want to circlejerk in a safe space echo chamber, I want to see both the yin and the yang of humanity. I want that wild west feeling of the internet of old

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ca felt like a natural home as an IRL Canadian resident. I like the variety of content and the moderation seems good so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It does seem like some servers have specific niches, so if you're really interested in a specific servers niche using that instance would prevent you from having to sync those communities with your instance.

I'm new, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nobody asked my opinion but my interpretation of how this whole fediverse "should" work is that while there can be empirical instances, federation shines with smaller, easy to manage instances thst connect to each other.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tried the bee but did not get any notification I was accepted. Fortunately saw programming.dev pop on my feed and they accepted my request.

Good thing as well that I found all of my favorite programming languages on the server.

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