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[–] tho@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

it was the only one when i joined

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I have a few now just to test it out. I want to use feddit.nl as my standard server, but I just haven't fully figured out how this all works.

Like for example I'm on lemmy.world and subscribe to something, that channel/sub doesn't seem to appear on feddit.nl. there can be a channel with the same name but it isn't the one I subscribed to.

[–] tom@lmmy.tvdl.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I want to be in control over my own data. So I spun up my own instance

[–] fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I joined lemmy.ml a while ago because following cool opensource projects is my jam.

[–] BananaPeal 1 points 1 year ago

I followed advice that said to avoid big instances due to possible instability, but also avoid tiny instances because you don't want them to shut down. So I was looking for something decent size, but not huge. I also wanted to minimize defederation so I could make my own decisions on blocking. I narrowed it down to three. Since I'm 13 deep down, I landed on sh.itjust.works.

[–] Goose@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

as a Greylag goose i flock to feddit.uk

[–] Apoidea@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Tried to join but looks like they don't accept disposable emails unfortunately.

[–] ilovetvshows@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Google search. I had no clue about multiple instances. Search lemmy on Google and first link was for lemmy.ml domain so that's how I am here.

[–] joeymaynard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world didn't require/disapprove my application!

I wrote in the beehaw application that I'd contribute empathy, humor, comments, and memes. I feel like a rejected tinder date in denial, "maybe their servers just have a lot going on right now"

[–] Flashback956@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Country, I live in The Netherlands so I searched for a Dutch hosted instance with Dutch owner.

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[–] AVeryCleverName@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.ml was requesting people register on other instances, and lemmy.one stepped up to fill the void.

But when people ask me what instance to sign up for, I tell them lemmy.world. it doesn't really matter, but being based in a bigger instance reduces the friction of finding communities.

[–] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml because when I joined I had no idea of how the fediverse worked. I'd change it to a smaller one but it really doesn't matter much I don't think.

[–] jaanus20@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Is there really a difference between the different servers? I just browse all (It's lemm.ee btw)

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[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

The domain name. And the community seemed friendly enough. Now with the Reddit exodus, I'm glad I migrated to a smaller instance.

A friend owns it and it has a funny domain. Bonus of it being smaller is that it didn't have any performance issues yesterday/today.

[–] blazarious@mylem.me 1 points 1 year ago

Set up the server myself. For me, that’s part of the fediverse experience.

[–] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

I’m a pirate πŸ΄β€β˜ οΈ and like the community itself, friendly and helpful.

Mod of a subreddit I was following created an instance, its was the easiest choice

[–] justineie_bobeanie@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy user for a couple of days here. I jumped on lemmy.world because it was big and the name suggested it was universal and open, it had open registration and allows nsfw content.

I suffered through the technical issues many of us experienced, but everything seems much better and smoother now (maybe because they were able to fix the issues, or maybe because enough people left because of them, I can't say!)

Does it matter what you use? Yes and no, I guess. Apparently the last few days performance issues were mostly local to dot-world. I did make another profile on lemm.ee and I noticed the different instances seem to show different feeds with some different content, but also many of the same posts from the same communities as well. I'm still trying to figure out how they decide what they show in their feeds. Something to do with federation, I guess, but I'm not pretending to understand the meaning of that concept yet. Given that instances can choose to federated or defederate, it seems like it must matter to some extent what instance you are on even though content can be shared between instances.

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[–] Fractalfarmer@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

I went with ReddThat as the past tense seemed apt. Also it's a small enough instance not to feel overwhelming, while being large enough to provide content.

[–] Flicsmo@rammy.site 0 points 2 years ago

I picked Rammy for the name and the sidebar:

Just another Lemmy instance. We've got a cool mascott though! Open to everyone.

Why trust some Big Tech corporation to host your data when some random geek can do it? All thanks to the power of the Fediverse!

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