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?
I actually made my home in the one hosting a previous reddit community I was fond of, just choose one u like.
lemmy.world seemed reputable with a straightforward domain name, and no out-of-the-ordinary policies.
I chose beehaw. I chose wrong. So now I’m on lemmy.world and nothing was lost 😎
lemmy.world is more open and performant than lemmy.ml and Beehaw.
Vlemmy.net as it currently hasn’t defederated from anyone or been defederated.
A fellow vlemmy user ’ ')/
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 chose lemmy.world after lemmy.ml closed their registration. Just glad I made my account somewhere.
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.
Didn’t realize I couldn’t downvote. Might be time to look elsewhere.
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.
SDF has been around since the 1980’s. It is one of the most historically trustworthy institutions on the Internet.
I’ve been an SDF member since 2001.
So it just made sense to use my community’s instance of Lemmy, since I also use their Pixelfed and Mastodon.
I chose kbin, loved the integration with mastodon
I don’t see the appeal of mastodon but that’s a neat feature.
I like microblogging platforms; they allow me to get information faster (albeit less information) than these types of posts.
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.
Joined sh.itjust.works since it’s located in North America, has open registration, and the admin sounds like he knows what he’s doing running a server. I’ve stayed 'cause it’s been stable and I like the admin’s vibe. It and lemmy.world seem to have become the main large “general purpose” instances since they both have open registration.
I also have an account on kbin that I’m not using much at the moment. I think that site has lots of future potential, though.
Kbin because it was the first one that actually let me register and didn’t freeze
Seriously, this. I tried for days to register on Lemmy. One day I was mid-registration and the button was just spinning, doing nothing, so I came over to kbin, registered and started using the site. Lemmy never stopped spinning. No thanks.
Nice username :)
You all need some longer usernames, sheesh.
Gotta get those good names quick
I’m self-hosting my own Lemmy server, which I guess is cheating since I can get any name I want to 😛
It was doing the same thing for me but I checked my email and there was a verification, once I completed it my registration went through. It didn’t actually tell me it was sending an email which is probably a flaw but it seems that’s the missing piece.
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.
Lemmy.world: because it was the top result on Google and I neither knew about the other servers nor remembered my experiences with Mastodon.
Probably going to stay here anyway.
Mostly out of laziness
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.
