Asklemmy

Lemmy.ml was requesting people register on other instances, and lemmy.one stepped up to fill the void.

But when people ask me what instance to sign up for, I tell them lemmy.world. it doesn't really matter, but being based in a bigger instance reduces the friction of finding communities.

lemmy.ml because when I joined I had no idea of how the fediverse worked. I'd change it to a smaller one but it really doesn't matter much I don't think.

I'm on lemmy.ml because my application was ignored (or not accepted, I don't know) by the smaller instances I've applied to.

The subreddit migrated here during the blackout so I just joined that same instance.

Chose an instance without mandatory email account and which seemed serious

I went with ReddThat as the past tense seemed apt. Also it's a small enough instance not to feel overwhelming, while being large enough to provide content.

I use lemmy.ml because i found it has a large user-base. I also like programming.dev and ideally i would like to see all the posts from the one and the other instance into one :)

I run it

Eventually i'll open it up to registrations when I feel its ready

It was that or Beehaw and Beehaw happened to be down at the time.

I joined a bunch. I paid for the whole fediverse (not really) and I'm going to use the whole fediverse.

Blahaj zone is explicitly and deliberately queer friendly, and a bit more lenient than beehaw

Because Blahaj is life.

Also because the mods and community are amazing and I'm already on their calckey server :)

I just picked several because I was able to.

I followed advice that said to avoid big instances due to possible instability, but also avoid tiny instances because you don't want them to shut down. So I was looking for something decent size, but not huge. I also wanted to minimize defederation so I could make my own decisions on blocking. I narrowed it down to three. Since I'm 13 deep down, I landed on sh.itjust.works.

I live in Finland, Sopuli is a Finnish instance with a decent sized community.

it was the only one when i joined

Ideology 🙂.

It's a local one near my country :)

Vlemmy sounded not sketchy.

I picked Lemmy.world because I wanted a fairly large one that will likely maintain support.

Is there really a difference between the different servers? I just browse all (It's lemm.ee btw)

I'm from the Midwest. Like to be on a server with similar people

I knew picking from the popular sources will provide a slow experience, so I went to a GitHub repository and picked the shortest domain from the recommended section.

Others did not exist back than.

I wanted to use lemmy.ml but i couldn't so i ended up using lemmy.world

Went with Lemmy.world during the blackout because it seemed to have the most activity.

I had the means and am a systems engineer by trade, so I set up my own instance. I decided to open it up to help the fediverse.

Mostly random tbh

Initially I sign up for beehaw because it was the first one recommended on the sign up page. They defederated from some instances, so I made another account with lemmyworld. They had issues that made them incompatible with the app I was using (mobile user only), so I now have an account with lemme. Three accounts, I swap around based on which one is working best on that particular day.