Asklemmy

Honestly I just liked the icon and it didn't seem like a shitty place to be. A smaller instance also basically guaranteed a username I would like to use was available.

thought this domain looked cool

we bacily have a similar story, i use to be in lemmy.fmhy.ml because of how open it was to discussion but i believe its gone now which stinks, so i moved to lemm.ee which im ok with at the moment, i guess.

shonk

My main activity on Reddit is wetshaving related. A cool user there started this instance so I joined it. We've set it up as similarly to the subreddit as possible as far as rules and organization goes.

That's a cool tool that you linked to! Instances will undoubtedly come and go over the years, and it's good to know something like that exists.

Our community always cared a lot about decentralization, so naturally we had to have our own instance, even before the reddit api exodus. It only made sense to use the instance of the community I vibe with. Besides this, we offer:

• closed signup to limit bot account creation, you need either manual verification or a signup fee for anonymous users
• high performance instance which is entirely community funded with the signup fees + anonymous donations
• unlimited access to the fediverse, there's no de-federation unless required by law

Beehaw defederated lemmy.world, but has the best news. I didn’t want to join beehaw, and have family from Canada so…. ca it is

I found one for my regional area because I went looking for my state community, and I didn’t know how to join it from .world. Now that we’re spreading out, I’m using it as my main. I also use Kbin quite frequently too, tho, but they don’t have an iOS app yet so not as much.

Because I thought it'd be interesting to try hosting one myself.

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

Was looking for a smaller kbin instance to help out with decentralization, saw an ad for kbin.cafe and signed up

I'm on feddit.it because it's an Italian-speaking instance, so I can read local posts from all kinds of subjects in my own language

The coolest name.

I initially chose vlemmy.net because it seemed big enough but not too big, and didn’t de/federate for non legal reasons (I can choose what I want to see myself).

Unfortunately it went down, so I moved to lemm.ee which seemed pretty similar but bigger so hopefully it will stick around longer.

I chose lemmy.world because it felt the most neutral and least controversial. I also feel like there's enough "backing" behind it and feel semi-confident that it'll stick around.