Asklemmy

I signed up at Redditthat.com as it was listed as a recommend instance. I didn't want to overcomplicate the choice. If this instance doesn't fit my needs, I can still create another account somewhere else.

It's the first one I found and many others were filled with germans and I said "Nein"

I was on dataterm.digital, I loved that server, but they went down one day and just never came back up. Sometimes I can still hear it SYN ACK

Because RIF recommended it

I saw a local instance for new Zealanders and joined.

lemmy.world because it was top recommended. In the future I might change to either host my own or use my wife's ex-husband's instance.

It was nearby geographically and the guy running it seemed to know what he was doing from a technical aspect.

The name of the instance made me laugh.

I saw a youtube video that said lemmy.ml was full so you can't join. I just picked a random one that wasn't ml so I chose lemmy.world

It does seem like some servers have specific niches, so if you're really interested in a specific servers niche using that instance would prevent you from having to sync those communities with your instance.

I'm new, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Lemmy.ca felt like a natural home as an IRL Canadian resident. I like the variety of content and the moderation seems good so far.

The domain name. And the community seemed friendly enough. Now with the Reddit exodus, I'm glad I migrated to a smaller instance.

For some reason I couldn't join lemmy.world and few other popular instances, be it because of technical issues, load, idk. I joined sh.itjust.works because I wanted to check fediverse before I commit to host my own instance, which I probably will at some point.

I want to be in control over my own data. So I spun up my own instance

I added an account to a few geared towards specific community types. Then I can easily switch accounts and view local.

I'm considering standing up an instance for this type of thing myself.

Lemmy user for a couple of days here. I jumped on lemmy.world because it was big and the name suggested it was universal and open, it had open registration and allows nsfw content.

I suffered through the technical issues many of us experienced, but everything seems much better and smoother now (maybe because they were able to fix the issues, or maybe because enough people left because of them, I can't say!)

Does it matter what you use? Yes and no, I guess. Apparently the last few days performance issues were mostly local to dot-world. I did make another profile on lemm.ee and I noticed the different instances seem to show different feeds with some different content, but also many of the same posts from the same communities as well. I'm still trying to figure out how they decide what they show in their feeds. Something to do with federation, I guess, but I'm not pretending to understand the meaning of that concept yet. Given that instances can choose to federated or defederate, it seems like it must matter to some extent what instance you are on even though content can be shared between instances.

The TLD.

I owned a funny domain

Mod of a subreddit I was following created an instance, its was the easiest choice

as a Greylag goose i flock to feddit.uk

I want something spread out from a maint instance, and is relevant to me, so I went with Midwest.social. I also knew about their mastodon track record, which helps me feel secure knowing it's a good instance

Ideology!

Because of nationality

I signed up with lemmy.ml originally, but then it was a little hugged to death. I couldn't update my community, couldn't post pictures or anything and I kept getting errors. I tried Beehaw but you can't make your own community and that was a no go for me. Then they defederated.

I went through the list that was only like 10 servers or something at the time, found slrpnk.net which had the vibes of the subreddit I run and found a new home for NoLawns. The guy who runs it seems pretty cool when I had to reach out to him so I've made it my home.

I did also just make a kbin the other day to see what that's all about too but with no app (yet there's a few in the works), I've stuck here.

Because it's a furry instance

Saw Lemmy.World and Kbin mentioned on reddit. I alternate between the two but increasingly am on Lemmy.World more.

The language. There is few server that are solely or mostly in Portuguese.

I initially had no idea how to select an instance or what that would impact, so I joined a random one but didn't take long to realize that the instance doesn't have much activity and most of what it does have is about truckers. Nothing against truckers but that isn't super applicable to me. After messing around a little I also realized that it's possible the server will just disappear, which could happen to any of them but I thought a larger instance might have more staying power (or maybe not I really have no idea).