Asklemmy

I'm the admin :P

I'm the admin of mine and also like books and writing

Beehaw cuz I heard they had strong moderation and don't shy away from defederation. Also bees.

I started with Lemmy.world but then moved to Lemmy.nz because it was faster.

I followed the Daystrom Institute community from reddit to startrek.website.

Piracy 🏴‍☠️

German Feddit thats it

Started on kbin.social and beehaw.org. Realized I liked Lemmy just a little more early on and stuck with Beehaw. But then they started to defederate from larger instances with open signups. So I joined lemmy.world to be part of the bigger picture. Then it got too big and people want to play the DDoS game, so now I've got this alt on lemm.ee as well. We'll see where it goes from here. 😂

The shark, mostly.

Also because I'm on their Calckey instance too.

And this:

There's an instance for my country so I just joined that one.

I googled about lemmy, found a blog post to introduce the whole concept, they linked an instance recommendation thing based on (if I understood correctly) the uptime, (de)federation and user count of the instance, and I just clicked one of the suggestions. So many posts claimed that it doesn't make a great difference that I eventually decided to toss my overoptimisation habit and take what was suggested to me.

But I'm still learning my way around here, who knows if this will stay my forever home.

I'm a scientist so I joined the instance that seemed to match my interests the best. I like browsing Local and seeing all the other science posts as well

I didn't want to have my stuff out of my control so I made my own instance.

The server is hosted in my country, the TLD belongs to my country and the current admins seem chill and dedicated to make it work. Hopefully that's the recipe to it's longevity.

Once they add some donation method I'll gladly donate and if they need help I'll gladly offer my technical knowledge.

I missread beehaw as yeehaw, was only slightly dissapointed when I noticed.

I'm the admin. Why? Because I enjoy doing, it's in the spirit of decentralisation, and I didn't want to risk being part of an instance that defederates from leftist instances like Lemmygrad or Hexbear.

I'm Canadian eh

When the reddit went bad I started looking for anti-corporate communities that would migrate.

r/cyberpunk was the first place I checked, but there was no discussion about migrating at all there. r/selfhosted was another obvious idea but people there seemed very reluctant as well.

The only sub that pointed to some clear migration path was r/piracy. I really appreciate the integrity of dbzer0 in this situation.

IDK I just kinda ended up here. The domain is easy to memorize, I guess.

(Edit: And it never goes down cause no one uses it.)

I'm running my own instance, which made it easy to choose which instance to use 😁

I built my own 😁

It was suggested by the sign up process at the top of which domain I should join. I don't remember how, it's already a blur, but afterwards I saw people saying the registration process needed to add a way of directing users to smaller instances as a thing to lighten the load and stop everyone going to lemmy.world and it confused me because that's literally what happened to me.

Anyway I also noticed it had a steam deck community and that was good enough for me.

Was looking for a Furry server and yiffit was too funny for me not to join

I saw blahaj and I was sold

I just made my own... I buy domains like steam games, never to be used/played, so finding a use for one is fun

Because only lemmy.ml was popular 2 years ago.

Found some power tripping mods in some instances, lemmy.ml seems fairly neutral.

Yarr 🏴‍☠️

I started out on Lemmy.world because it seemed like it was going to be home to the most communities, and people seemed to like & respect the admin.

But I also work on software, and I’m here for all the computer nerd shit Lemmy has to offer. Plus World has had uptime issues. So programming.dev seemed like a good home instance to try out, even if I’m interacting with a bunch of communities on World too.

I started on Beehaw but created a second account on lemmy.world since I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing any content. Once the slowdowns started I took a deeper dive into different instances and saw there was one centered around music and production and this would fit me best. I still use all three but I still think this will be home for me.

I first joined Lemmy.ml and beehaw because when I joined those were pretty much the only active English language instances. I moved to lemmy.ca because Lemmy.ml started going down more when redditors showed up, and I didn't like beehaw's "defederate now and sort it out later" attitude. Plus I figured going with a mid sized instance is best. They aren't going to get overloaded because they are too big, and aren't going to shut down due to lack of interest either.

moved there from lemmy.world because of downtime and also unclear, sloppy defederation policies. i've never seen a clear explanation why it took a month to defederate exploding heads (allowing their userbase to grow 3x) and week for rammy site, but hexbear gets defederated "preemptively". ???

also now i see beehaw content which is something i didn't expected, but it's cool

Trans rights! Also, shonk 🏳️‍⚧️🦈

I was told, by someone I know in a local Discord, that it was a reddit replacement for Midwest leftists. At the time I didn't know what Lemmy was. Now that I'm using it in place of reddit, it's performing very well. I like our local instance a lot. I am tempted to move to Startrek.website though, just because I'm a huge nerd

I like science and Mander has a lot of neat science communities. I also keep a back up account for Lemmy.world.

It's funny, I created kind of a the same thread in !fediverse@lemmy.ml a few minutes ago

lemmy.ca because it's Canadian.

It's also a smaller instance, and I wanted to avoid joining a monolithic instance like world or beehaw, in favour of a smaller community I can feel a part of.

... But primarily because it's Canadian honestly.

"my day won't be ruined if I see a tit."

This is glorious :-)

Kept having stability issues with the instances I joined. One of them even dissapeared completely (rip vlemmy). I ended up on a anarchy/piracy one and it's been the best experience so far.

I like planes

It was a battle between my queer identity and my biologist identity. For regular browsing and posting, science won out. But I have an account with blajah.zone too to discuss the queer agenda.

Im french (and i like smaller instances that just work) We're a small community grouped around a few local sublemmies and i really like it that way

I sometimes like programming