I’m currently struggling to find my home. I have an account here at lemmy.ml, where most of my posts are, and one at kbin.

Why do you think your instance is the place to be?

      • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I kind of wish they chose “fedd.itjust.works” which was the other suggestion in that thread. “sh.itjust.works” is funny but looks like it’s a shitposting instance.

  • nebula42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    i moved over to lemmy.world after i heard somewhere that lemmy.ml was run by a tankie and had been censoring proof of the tiananmen square massacre. idk if it’s true or not, but I didn’t wanna take any chances.

    • dan@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Seriously, this. I tried for days to register on Lemmy. One day I was mid-registration and the button was just spinning, doing nothing, so I came over to kbin, registered and started using the site. Lemmy never stopped spinning. No thanks.

  • mayniac@feddiverse.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I created my own instance so that I know it will not just “go away”.

    Edit: I have a feeling that a lot of instances, besides the big ones, will vanish after the newness wears off.

  • wumpus@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I was told it was better for load balancing if we didn’t all use the same one. So I just looked for one that had easy signups and didn’t seem overeager to block stuff. Apparently, some from this instance come form /r/china. I’m not, but I do drink coffee. Anyway, I think it’s working out so far; better than reddit anyway.

  • Sploosh the Water@vlemmy.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Randomly came across mine. Was gunna join a larger instance just for testing, but it was right as the big Reddit rush was happening and my signups kept failing.

    So I went with this one.

  • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    feddit.dk. I wanted a regional instance as my home instance, because they tend to be chill with controlled growth, while also having native language discussions. My country didn’t have a Lemmy instance at the time, so I picked the closest option. I love Denmark and they don’t seem too annoyed by my presence (yet). Thanks for having me 🫶🏻 🇩🇰

  • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyzEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I joined mander.xyz because it has a central theme around the natural sciences. It could possibly include STEM content as well; there is an ongoing discussion about it. The admin(s) are present and very responsive.

    For anyone with a love of science and/or nature I recommend it highly as a home instance of Lemmy.

    • elavat0r@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Mander has been lovely so far. Plenty of interesting content and chill people. It was the first instance I saw when browsing that looked friendly and yet didn’t require me to write an essay to register an account.

      • Salamander@mander.xyz
        1·
        1 year ago

        Really?! That is strange. I just tested account creation and it appears to work fine. What error are you getting?

      • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hmm. The server is up right now. Does it give an error or just sit there?

        I can say I’ve had horrible luck trying to sign up through the apps. It works much better through a standard browser for initial sign up.

  • SinJab0n@mujico.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I actually made my home in the one hosting a previous reddit community I was fond of, just choose one u like.

  • tacticaltweaker@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy.world initially cause I didn’t like the overbearing moderation and locked communities of beehaw.org and the developers of lemmy.ml. Kbin seems to be great and I prefer its timeline / sorting, I just wish it was a bit more polished with magazine syncing and certain UI features, but that should come with time.

  • ganksy@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I chose lemmy.world solely on the fact it had a lot of members. Lemmy.ml was a contender too. I just wanted to jump in and check things out. Knowing (slightly)more now, I don’t think it was a bad choice.

  • SavvyWolf@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I joined Beehaw early on when things where a lot quieter because I liked what they were trying to do (and back then there were only like two instances, and I didn’t want to put more load on lemmy.ml).

    Joined sh.itjust.works to make a community after the sysadmin just casually walked up with a huge server, which is a level of swagger I can get behind. I’ve since moved to this as my “main” account since Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (which sucks, but is understandable).

    May move again to pawb.social at some point, although that means people will know something about me. :P

    Edit: And now pawb.social has defederated with sh.itjust.works… I’m getting more and more tempted to just roll my own personal instance just for me…

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Thought about switching over, with zero knowledge of this platform, clicked random link in reddit thread and it was lemmy.world. turns out it’s populated and stable.