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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Surprised I'm not seeing any other self-hosters in here. Having seen the de-federation drama, it's nice to know that I can federate with anyone I want, regardless of if they are federating with eachother.

Obviously it comes with the administration side of things, but I really don't mind.

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[–] legendaryq 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I picked lemmy.world because it was recommended and had a large userbase. I know Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjustwor.ks, so if you want to interact with that community, that could be a consideration against, but since the user population across all of Lemmy is currently increasing dramatically, I think everything's a bit of a moving target regardless.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Picked it for the name, stayed because of the community. A lot of super nice folks here on sh.itjust.works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

My main one is on lemmy.ml and I'll admit it was just the first one I saw. My second one is on lemmy.blahaj.zone in case something happens to the dev instance.

[–] OsakaWilson 6 points 2 years ago

The first I tried was Lemmy.ml. I applied and didn't hear back. So I joined Lemmy.world and registered immediately.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I made my first account on lemmy.ml because it had a commitment to free and open-source software with a focus on privacy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When the ship of r/piracy sailed from the reddit docks, this where we landed next.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've got accounts on 4 different instances just to see what things are like. Sometimes I want to see all sorts of posts, sometimes I want a feed of just LGBT-positive stuff, sometimes I just want to get off, different accounts on different instances for different things :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I own it, hehe

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't know what I was doing so I chose at random.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Set up the server myself. For me, that’s part of the fediverse experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

My first account was on lemmy.one but then I stood up my own instance to learn more about Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I found beehaw first, so I started there but then discovered that the admins manage the community creation there. So I made a new account on lemmy.world to mod that, and most browsed with my beehaw account. But then beehaw needed to de-federate from lemmy.world, so I made a vLemmy and lemmy.one accounts so I could interact with both beehaw and lemmy.world.

tl;dr As someone else mentioned, finding a smaller, low-profile instance to have your home account but interacting with other instances seems to be the best approach

[–] Armetron 5 points 2 years ago

So I joined lemmy.world because I use to be a user of reddit is fun, rip, and in their going away message they mentioned .world. So I joined that instance not realizing how the fediverse works.

Overall what I've seen is the instance you join determines your "front page" since by default it will be set to show local communities. Other than that subscribe to any community from any instance then set your front page to show "subscribed" or "all" and you get your basic Reddit experience

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

β€’Lemmy.ml - Signed up here first, was recommended to it as a general place to sign up to

β€’Lemmy.blahaj.zone - Egg memes, blΓ₯haj memes, just memes

β€’Lemmy.world - Handy for extra world news communities

β€’Lemmynsfw.com - Do I need to explain. This is under a different name, but I've kinda used that name over on the other place and I'm slowly bringing my content over (plus new stuff)

I only use one and four regularly

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First I made one on ml. Then I made one on kbin because everyone said ml was a bunch of tankies and had some shady shit going on. Then none of the apps supported kbin so now I made one on world. Lol and I have no idea which one between world and ml I'm even posting from right now since I'm logged into both on liftoff

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah it does kinda matter, which is problematic for onboarding new users. Personally:

  • I read the rules/TOS.
  • I checked the Instances page to make sure instances I wanted to access were linked and not blocked.
  • I looked for any introduction posts to see what the backend infrastructure was like.
  • I checked the username I wanted was available.

It should not be that complicated, but it also has to be unfortunately. I had to make sure all those things matched what I personally wanted. This much choice is great for heavily-invested tech nerds with free time but sucks for anyone else wanting to join in.

[–] Mavedustaine 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Like most commenters here, because it was recommended and I'm a newbie at this.

Question though, if I create another account on say lemm.ee, is there a way for me to migrate my subscribed communities?

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[–] PopularUsername 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Was the most upvoted comment on "how to get started with Lemmy". Also, some of these other places have super strange names, I get that it doesn't matter but when you know nothing it gives bad vibes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I like the short and aesthetic of the domain name lemm.ee

Shorter domains the better I say! (usually)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A subreddit I was in linked their lemmy community and it was on dbzer0 so I created a account on there and called it a day.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd heard you shouldn't pick one of the largest, I explicitly didn't want a server run by Nazis, Paleolibertarians, or Marxist-Leninists, and I didn't mind the rules here.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I chose Aussie.zone cause I'm out of touch with my own country so seeing the news here is nice and cause I thought it would be easier to join a country instance.

Also optional email and I know I could make a temp email but I can't be bothered.

[–] LeHappStick 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It has the word world in the name, sounds bigger.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm into general instances and also a long time user of Fediverse, so I know 10-200 user instances work best. That's why I picked the first one with not too many and not too little users (the join-lemmy page only showed 50 new users when I registered, damn)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Bouncing between several since lemmy.world is being hammered right now, I'm sure once the dust settles things will calm down. Right now I'm on infosec.pub because it was recommended to me as a smaller server. It really doesn't matter so long as whatever you're on communicates with everyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was planning to sign up at BeeHaw because it seems pretty active and with high quality discussions. When I heard that it had defederated from Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world I decided not to sign up to any of those three as I would rather have access to all of them (though I can understand why BeeHaw defederated). So I just went with VLemmy.net as it was one of the recommended ones (on join-lemmy.org and the Awesome-Lemmy-Instances GitHub) and seems to be very broadly federated.

I don't think it matters too much, though I think if you were signed up on the same instances as all your favourite communities it would be a bit more convenient.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I read some comments that lemmy.ca was well run to the extent that it was being recommended even by non-Canadians. Being Canadian myself, that was good enough for me.

It's a friendly instance and is well-run. The admin manually approved registrations which kept them safe from the great bot invasion and is now upgrading the server and bringing on more admins.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I chose vlemmy.net cause it seemed neutral, general, and was one of the recommended ones. So far so good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trans, pan, 196, and Blahaj is friend.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Well, I started my instance so it only makes sense that its also my home!

As for why I started an instance, I've always liked self-hosting stuff as its been one of the best ways I learn how stuff on the internet works, even more than I have learnt from doing some programming in my spare time. So it was an obvious move for me since I wanted to know more about how ActivityPub worked.

Originally I wasn't really planning on having open registration on my instance (otherwise I would've picked a better domain name, a bit late for that now) however as I saw Lemmy pick up pace, and the larger servers were starting to have issues, I figured that the best way I could give back was at least offer to share the load.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I joined the one hosted by my country's community. The community is really great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I picked pawb because furries know tech really well, so I can trust the server to be fairly reliable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I tried to find a server that isn't blocking anyone, and hasn't been defederated by any of the big servers.

I want to avoid an echo-chamber and have access to everything on the fediverse, including stuff I find distateful. If anything really bothers me I will block the community/instance myself, I don't want others making that choice for me.

Unfortunately there seems to be a lot of folks out there just searching for an excuse to clutch their pearls, rile up a mob, and defederate anything and everything that offends them.

I don't want to circlejerk in a safe space echo chamber, I want to see both the yin and the yang of humanity. I want that wild west feeling of the internet of old

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Biggest German server and good community.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Idk, because why not Estonia.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The Admin of my instance (discuss.tchncs.de) is tolerant but understands the tolerance paradox. (Defderated with exploding heads but not every left instance - doesn't fall for false balance.

Also he was fast with approving new accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have two. I have this one (lemmy.ml) as my broad-access instance. My other is lemmygrad, but as that is a bit more widely blocked I keep this one still. That one is used for most of my politics, and this one is my more general interest. It's kind of nice to have different communities died to different user registrations.

As to why those two in particular, I am a Marxist-Leninist so...yeah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It doesn't really matter actually, but I would prefer to stay on the one with more members as it will probably last longer than other instances

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I run my own private instance so I am in control over my own data.

Tbh, I don’t think it matters what server you choose. Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, and Beehaw seem to be the big ones so picking a server that federates with those would be ideal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I'm with the boys on lemm.ee !

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Es ist Deutschland hier!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Country, I live in The Netherlands so I searched for a Dutch hosted instance with Dutch owner.

[–] zav 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Literally just picked the biggest one to maximise the content I see

Rn it matters a bit, wont in a few weeks tho i think

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