Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I’m intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don’t know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it.

That made me curious of how you decided to join?

I firstly join to lemmy.fmhy.ml thanks to Spez and a Reddit post from FMHY subreddit, then the tragedy occurred, then I joined to lemmy.world which is/was my main one because I pictured it like a good home, then lemmy.fmhy.net revived and I am with them too, but seems like they are in a bit of trouble with the server, finally now I am in lemm.ee, but only because I just wanted another backup, not because I searched for it especially (also it was mentioned in a comment about smaller instances and one user from here throw a joke to not join here because it sucks so that way the server would be more stable, so yeah, I joined).

To be clear I am not in search for yet another instance (that sounds like a good instance name to be fair), I just want to know how the deciding process is for you, is it just random? Is it because of personal tastes?

I couldn’t care less about NSFW stuff, I don’t search for it specifically, but my day won’t be ruined if I see a tit.

I like gaming, tech, Linux, SBC gaming, emulation, macOS, Android stuff etc (yeah how original) should I look for an instance dedicated to that if I ever want to join yet another one? Because I see topics like this in almost any instance.

I read you lemmings!

EDIT: BTW the migration process has been easier for me thanks to LASIM, so I wouldn’t be scared if I ever want/have to migrate again.

  • @frippa@lemmy.ml
    4•2 years ago

    I joined lemmy.ml because 1 year ago (yes I’m old I know) it was the biggest and most active instance, also it was, very importantly, the most federated with others I believe, the other candidate was lemmygrad but I feared (and that fear came true) fediblocks and defederations

  • Drusas
    2•2 years ago

    Started out on lemmy.world because it was what I had heard of. Quickly switched to kbin.social for the better UI.

  • @zewm@lemmy.zip
    8•2 years ago

    I was on lemmy.world at first but it’s constantly down so I started searching for a new instance. I fell in love with the lemmy.zip color theme.

  • JoeCoT
    2•2 years ago

    I use kbin.social mostly because I liked the interface better and I wanted to be contrary, and if I ever self-host it, I’m much more familiar with PHP than Rust.

    • kratoz29OPEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Is kbin one big instance? Or there are others like in Mastodon and Lemmy?

  • possibly a cat
    1•2 years ago

    The type of userbase, and to be close to the pulse of updates and meta-discussion.

  • @orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    5•2 years ago

    I’m a dev that likes to dabble in new things all the time and I have a pretty varied skillset that includes some DevOps chops. When I left Reddit and deleted my accounts after ~18 years being there, I wanted to be a real contributor to the Fediverse and not just a lurker or commenter. I continually got laughs out of the stories about orcas capsizing yachts, and thus the URL for my instance was born (I wanted it to be more playful and tongue-in-cheek, hence the “enjoying” part).

  • @flameguy21@lemm.eeEnglish
    7•2 years ago

    I was on world but people are assholes and kept ddos-ing it and heard lemm.ee was pretty good. Can confirm lemm.ee is pretty good. Bonus: beehaw doesn’t defederate lemm.ee and their communities are pretty cool.