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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.

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[โ€“] OverfedRaccoon@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Started on kbin.social and beehaw.org. Realized I liked Lemmy just a little more early on and stuck with Beehaw. But then they started to defederate from larger instances with open signups. So I joined lemmy.world to be part of the bigger picture. Then it got too big and people want to play the DDoS game, so now I've got this alt on lemm.ee as well. We'll see where it goes from here. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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I joined Lemmygrad because I came from GenZedong, and stayed there

[โ€“] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 1 year ago

It's the most based one.

[โ€“] mp3@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

The server is hosted in my country, the TLD belongs to my country and the current admins seem chill and dedicated to make it work. Hopefully that's the recipe to it's longevity.

Once they add some donation method I'll gladly donate and if they need help I'll gladly offer my technical knowledge.

[โ€“] ahal@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

I'm Canadian eh

[โ€“] NoGodsNoMasters@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean I joined it 3 years ago because I followed r/cth from reddit and for a while it was pretty much the only active instance

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[โ€“] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I was born in it, Molded by it

I hate America

[โ€“] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I saw blahaj and I was sold

[โ€“] jack@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Hexbear sees and respects blahaj blahaj transshork-happy

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[โ€“] Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Because only lemmy.ml was popular 2 years ago.

[โ€“] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

I'm a scientist so I joined the instance that seemed to match my interests the best. I like browsing Local and seeing all the other science posts as well

[โ€“] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Putin pays me to post there

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[โ€“] chrisbit@leminal.space 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm the admin. Why? Because I enjoy doing, it's in the spirit of decentralisation, and I didn't want to risk being part of an instance that defederates from leftist instances like Lemmygrad or Hexbear.

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[โ€“] Teritz@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] stark@qlemmy.com 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

When the reddit went bad I started looking for anti-corporate communities that would migrate.

r/cyberpunk was the first place I checked, but there was no discussion about migrating at all there. r/selfhosted was another obvious idea but people there seemed very reluctant as well.

The only sub that pointed to some clear migration path was r/piracy. I really appreciate the integrity of dbzer0 in this situation.

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[โ€“] thesilencenoise@waveform.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started on Beehaw but created a second account on lemmy.world since I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing any content. Once the slowdowns started I took a deeper dive into different instances and saw there was one centered around music and production and this would fit me best. I still use all three but I still think this will be home for me.

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[โ€“] Psythik@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IDK I just kinda ended up here. The domain is easy to memorize, I guess.

(Edit: And it never goes down cause no one uses it.)

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[โ€“] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I didn't want to have my stuff out of my control so I made my own instance.

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I googled about lemmy, found a blog post to introduce the whole concept, they linked an instance recommendation thing based on (if I understood correctly) the uptime, (de)federation and user count of the instance, and I just clicked one of the suggestions. So many posts claimed that it doesn't make a great difference that I eventually decided to toss my overoptimisation habit and take what was suggested to me.

But I'm still learning my way around here, who knows if this will stay my forever home.

[โ€“] Zink@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started out on Lemmy.world because it seemed like it was going to be home to the most communities, and people seemed to like & respect the admin.

But I also work on software, and Iโ€™m here for all the computer nerd shit Lemmy has to offer. Plus World has had uptime issues. So programming.dev seemed like a good home instance to try out, even if Iโ€™m interacting with a bunch of communities on World too.

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[โ€“] guts@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Found some power tripping mods in some instances, lemmy.ml seems fairly neutral.

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