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 did not. I ended up on lemmy.world but visiting over, which I think is a cool feature.
I guess a better question would have been, “Why did you choose your instance?”
Lemmy World is run by chill people with experience. They run Mastodon.world, which is a top 10 Mastodon instance.
Since the start it’s been the most stable instance I think, they bought a beefy server after all the Reddit shenanigans and aren’t imposing any weird restrictions. Would recommend.
I joined sh.itjust.works because I like the domain. It makes me smile 🙂
I read the thread where that domain was born, lol. It was pretty funny.
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.
I joined Beehaw early on when things where a lot quieter because I liked what they were trying to do (and back then there were only like two instances, and I didn’t want to put more load on lemmy.ml).
Joined sh.itjust.works to make a community after the sysadmin just casually walked up with a huge server, which is a level of swagger I can get behind. I’ve since moved to this as my “main” account since Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (which sucks, but is understandable).
May move again to pawb.social at some point, although that means people will know something about me. :P
Edit: And now pawb.social has defederated with sh.itjust.works… I’m getting more and more tempted to just roll my own personal instance just for me…
Where / how can you see a list of who is (de)federated with whom?
At the bottom of each page, there’s a link for “instances”, which shows who the current instance has blocked.
If you’re Ok with NSFW there is also yiffit.net. As far as I know we aren’t defederated with anyone yet.
Back in my day, the only instance that federated with all other instances was lemmy.ml 👴🏻
feddit.de because it was made for german potatoes like me
Potatoes unite!
Munching on fries rn is this cannabilism?
Yes and I’ve contacted the authorities thanks for the tip
Just watch out for the Kartoffelstampfer
(I just learned that word a week or two ago!)
I joined lemmy.ml because the join-lemmy site gave me extremely little to go on. It was a coin toss between this and beehaw.org once I realized how few instances were established and not right-wing.
That was only 2 weeks ago and already I’ve seen the site force 2 server upgrades, even as the admins have strongly encouraged new users to join elsewhere to prevent centralization.
The instance list desperately needs a few columns added, including whether new signups are encouraged or discouraged.
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.
For the meme.
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.
I’m trying to set up another account at mander but I haven’t had any success.
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.
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.
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.
My current instance has a bunch of sports communities, and typically the first thing i like to look at when i was on reddit were the sports subs. I was previously on beehaw but they kind of shut themselves off from some of other big communities so i migrated off
I just took a look at your instance and love the number of communities over there. I’m on shitjustworks and it’s good, but I definitely subscribed to a few on your instance. What was odd, though, is I couldn’t seem to find them with a simple search…? I had to do an “all” search and use the web address to find them. Probably user error on my part, but I seem to be subscribed now.
I think it’s because it’s a newer instance so it just hasn’t been spread around too much yet. In your case it’s because you were the first to federate from your instance to whichever communities you were looking to sign up to.
Ahhh, that makes sense. Thanks.
feddit.dk. I wanted a regional instance as my home instance, because they tend to be chill with controlled growth, while also having native language discussions. My country didn’t have a Lemmy instance at the time, so I picked the closest option. I love Denmark and they don’t seem too annoyed by my presence (yet). Thanks for having me 🫶🏻 🇩🇰
Well, my Swedish is nonexistent so you’re definitely giving my brain a workout when I read your contributions at feddit.dk xD
But we’re happy to have you, the more the merrier!
Oh no! I read a lot of Danish forums and got so used to reading it that I assumed everyone can easily read what I’m writing. Should I attempt to write in Danish? I don’t know what’s worse, subjecting you all to the devil language or Danish that is full of errors…
To be honest I think it’s good for me to work on my language skills. I’ve been seriously neglecting German and Nordic languages in favour of excelling in English, which is a bit dumb given that I like vacationing in our neighboring countries.
So for me it isn’t a problem as long as you don’t mind me using DeepL for the difficult parts :p
Speaking about regional instances, does anyone know if there’s a Swedish instance?
Ja, vi har en feddit.nu! It’s still quiet there because it didn’t have an advertising campaign during the Reddit blackout, but I’m going to contribute to it more to help it grow, and hopefully it’ll get even more members after July 1st!
I was looking for a furry one. Found pawb.social and yiffit. Stuck with the one that had nsfw. They both are Lemmy instances
I’m self-hosting my own Lemmy instance, but I might switch to self-hosting kbin instead. I’m just unsure whether it’s possible to migrate comments and posts from Lemmy to kbin :/
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.
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.
Same