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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€“] tacosplease@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I started on fmhy.ml because I like tech stuff and a piracy instance seemed like a good place to find that sort of thing. It was dead on there though. Posts would have like 6 upvotes and 0-2 comments. Then it just disappeared.

After that I joined the largest instance to get more interaction and uptime... only for DDOS attacks to make lemmy.world have a bunch of downtime. Oh well. Not moving again if I don't have to. I like lemmy.world

[โ€“] abc@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

There is only one true instance: Chapo.chat and if I notice you are commenting from a different instance, you are immediately relegated to SECOND CLASS CITIZENRY in my mind. el-chapo

[โ€“] Im28xwa@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

I took a look at r/android and the got sold immediately by "fastest instance out there"

[โ€“] vox@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

admin is nice. felt cozy when i first loaded it up
btw I've got a (free) domain: beeg.pp.ua and an old craptop, so I'm thinking about self-hosting my instance

[โ€“] spiderman@ani.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

After lemmy.fhmy.ml was dead, I was searching for an instance that matches my taste and found this one. Also, admin posts a lot to make the communities in the instance not to become dead, so there's kudos to them for that too.

[โ€“] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I started on kbin because it's an easy to remember name/address and I liked the ui, but not great on mobile so I had to join another when I downloaded jerboa. Chose lemmy.zip because I too am tech focused and the name is also easy to remember. I am also on beehaw because the community seemed cool and again its easy to remember url, but didn't even realize it was part of the same system when I joined, lol.

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A pleasant surprise for sure.

We have a public beta of Artemis for Kbin BTW, you should check it out if you haven't already!

Also I like how lemmy.zip sounds.

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[โ€“] JoeCoT@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] pretzelise@mlem.me 2 points 1 year ago

because I made it >:) muahaha

[โ€“] Mr_1077@monero.town 2 points 1 year ago

I originally joined lemmy via lemmy.fmhy.ml, 'cause you know, my "Linux ISO's" needs to get well distributed.

However, they got in trouble and I like Lemmy, so I started looking for other instances. Eventually, I found monero.town and since I already use monero.social as my matrix home, I signed up for it.

Never encountered any problems with it. The devs also seem pretty cool.

[โ€“] Rac3r4Life@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm on Lemmy.world. I just picked it because it was one of the biggest, but I haven't been entirely happy with it.

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[โ€“] hex@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

im a programmer

[โ€“] t0fr@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] Nioxic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I joined lemmy.world because it sounded nice. Was easy to remember.

I really had no reason to choose specific one, so why not this one?

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[โ€“] deadlyremote@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

All of the other instances had like 2 users

[โ€“] lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

At the time (which was over a year ago ๐Ÿ‘ต) it was the only Lemmy instance that didn't have a verification process and I was impatient but I stayed for the community and really like it here!

[โ€“] guywithoutaname@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I joined my instance because it's smaller. As a result everything seems a lot more responsive.

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[โ€“] scarabic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I had an account before I even knew there were many instances. I thought it was just a website.

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