What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?
Why did you choose your Fediverse Instance, does it have a bigger meaning than it was a bigger instance or was it for a certain reason? Did you have to be on your instance you chose?
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More reliable than lemdro.id, European (low ping) and it isn’t .ml or lemmygrad.
I didn’t know about instances, it was the first one that popped up. 🤦
I’m hosting my own, I don’t wanna have to rely on someone else to do a good job for me
Amazing choice, it’s what we’ve ended up doing with break3.social and social.fedicate.org our Sharkey instances but running more instances is the goal with Lemmy or Piefed in the future.
Glad to see others host there own instance
I was looking over instances sorted by uptime, saw one that had high uptime, a lot of users, and a literal promise that shit will just work in its name. I did a bit of scoping to see that it was easy to view communities across all instances from SJW and figured, fuck it, seems like as good a choice as any.
I picked one at random. Then I quickly realised .ml is nuts so I picked a different random one. How do I feel about about my instance? No strong feelings one way or the other. It’s ok I guess
I just picked the biggest one this time. I’ve had 3 others shut down on me since I’ve been using Lemmy.
That is understandable, would you not want to run your own to make sure it can’t shutdown without you knowing?
Maybe at some point but I don’t have the time or mental bandwidth for that right now.
It would be weird to host an instance without using it…
Cuz shit just works
Always amazing when things do that
I didn’t give a shit
My account on the old nsfw stopped working because apparently someone shit the bed or stopped doing something or whatever
It’s not something that I care about, so I just did whatever
I have no idea what instance I’m on
I don’t even know what instances are, or what difference it makes
You know, I actually love reading this. People complain a lot about how complicated the fediverse/lemmy/whatever is and they cannot even sign up, yada yada. And yet here you are, not giving a damn about it all and still you manages to make an account and you are here. Kudos to you!
You are on lemmy.world
You can see the instance others are on by the @ after their name. If they don’t have one, they are local to you.
I think that it depends on how you access lemmy. Iirc, voyager and some others allow you to toggle user instances (at least for comments)
Yeah, also when you click on an account you see the full name and when commenting.
Gender dysphoria
maintainer is from my country, rules are good and reasonable, nice local content, no local drama
I made accounts on a few instances, but I stuck with this one (and eventually joined the team) for the same reasons
That’s a good combo, especially local content. Do you ever find the local content gets lost?
i dont know, i dont pay that much attention to stuff like that so i’m not 100% sure about the drama part either, but i dont recall ever being annoyed by such things which is good enough for me. Its not extremely huge instance, around 5k users and 200 posts/ day. I think that helps too. Oh, i forgot to mention that I like admins here too, they are nice people.
Blåhaj.
The other furry instance shut down. 😞
Dring the Reddit Migration, this was the first one I heard about, so I picked it. Haven’t been bothered to change it since.
Do you feel you will change in the future?
I know there’s been an okay amount of people that have said about how they moved from Lemmy World due to moderation over reach along with often being de-federated from other instances on bias’ (I have no evidence of this, just comments from others to this post)
Probably not, unless something major happens.
I wanted a place for the digital nomad and travel niche, so I made it. I’m hoping to have resources like maps, tips, and other things like blogs
check out the communities https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/communities?home_select=local
there’s also [pixelfed](https://pixel/ fed.keyboardvagabobd.com) and mastodon, though it’s been a bit harder to get them as full with content
