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?---@asklemmy@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.ml @asklemmy@sh.itjust.works#AskMastodon #AskFedi #AskFediverse #Fediverse #Instance #Question #FediQuestion

Cuz shit just works

After reaching out and proving I was human, the admins agreed to activate my account manually so I didn't have to enter a valid email address.

I needed to make a new account when lemm.ee shut down and feddit.uk was the first one that came to mind. I'm not even from the UK.

Its a decently sized Piefed Server that allows me to talk about Politics.

I used to use Piefed dot World and before that Lemmy Word but they explicitly and openly support the misogynist, transphobic, pro-war, pro-genocide tankie Lemmy Developers, so I don't go there anymore.

EDIT: The hecks this little fedicate bubble?

maintainer is from my country, rules are good and reasonable, nice local content, no local drama

Kbin was my first, shit was fucky with it for a bit so I changed. No complaints about world (Yet anyhow)

I was on lemmy.ee and when it shut down I wanted to join an instance that wouldn't defederate unless it absolutely had to, .today was the first option I saw and it works well enough for what I need it for

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

I heard people I respect talk about it in ways I enjoyed :)

The public feed, rules, etc. also looked like a good match for me. And I'm absolutely grateful to be able to post from here!

It would be weird to host an instance without using it...

Very small blocked list and doesn't block NSFW. Users should make their own choices. Also awesome stats every month.

This is probably the first sharkey post I see on lemmy. It looks really good, nice.

I chose from the general purpose instances because I don’t know enough about or align myself closely with the more niche instances. The stability of the instances and number of instances it blocked/was blocked by was also a factor, since I wanted a neutral experience - here’s where I found that data.

After lemm.ee shut down, I wanted to try PieFed, and the name piefed.world made me imagine a world fed with pie. Thought that was cute.

Kbin went down so I choose the biggest one to not have to deal with it going down

Its name.

I hear piefed is the new better thing so why not try it out?

wetdry.world is an awesome name and fun instance.

I tried out Lemmy.ml for a while but then I kept getting accused of being a tankie, so I gave up. Piefed showed up in my reddit feed and feddit.online was the first one I saw.

Wait, are you talking about .ml? I wasn't aware of .world being really bad.

i used to use lemmy.sdf.org since I liked sdf.org, but it sadly isn't maintained that well. lemmy.today seems to have no instance blocks, have good stability and support for the old reddit style frontend

I'm using sdf half because they are part of a service I already paid for and half because I'm too lazy to make myself more accounts somewhere else.

World is not as bad, but they financially support developers like Desalines who OWN AND OPERATE ML.

Oh fuckin shit. That's why I just joined PieFed here. I'll be sure to block .world too

I started with lemmy.world, the biggest generalist instance, for an easy starting point. I thought I would be interacting in programming and anime threads.

In the end, I end up discussing mostly weeb stuff, so ani.social looks more appropriate.

Also, I don't know the specifics, but if ani.social triggered lemmy.ml enough for lemmy.ml to defederate from ani.social, it must be doing something right.

In my experience, the instance and community moderators of ani.social are based. I barely see any drama unlike some other instances. I'd say I chose well.

Because the admin lets me post semi-random thoughts on it, plus it makes a nice space heater in the winter and background noise in the summer.

Main dev instance.

I made accounts on a few instances, but I stuck with this one (and eventually joined the team) for the same reasons

I've been an SDF member for about 25 years. They created a Lemmy server, I tried it out, and here I am.

When I was on Reddit, /r/CasualUK/ was my spiritual home, so moving to Feddit UK, home of !casualuk@feddit.uk, was a no brainer.

This was the first stable community on which I was able to make an account on, after many failed attempts at other instances. I had a lemmy.cafe account before, but I was not getting recent posts. Another reason is that I am mostly ok with this community's moderation policies.
When I was yet to choose an instance, I saw a lot of fearmongering in the fediverse about ml, hexbear and lemmygrad being very toxic communities. I put off for long till I got convinced that ml was actually a decent community. There will be some toxic users in any community, offline or online. But certain bullshit is not tolerated on ml, like ableist language, apathy to people outside the US, hate speech etc. So, here I am.

NSFW is a very generic tag. I usually browse subscribed so porn popping up is not a problem. I still want to see NSFW-tagged footage from conflicts or the occasional mild NSFW art. Photos are blurred by default so it's not like someone will see it by accident.

Because I already started using Mastodon.World years ago, then Lemmy.World, and now Piefed.World. 🤷‍♂️

I saw a post recommending lemmy.zip for beginners, and, while it doesn't cater to my interests at all, it is a casual, well run, and nicely designed instance. I didn't understand what an instance was, but now I like the design of blorp.lemmy.zip

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.

Same reason I use Jerboa.

Literally every single instance I've ever joined has either died/shutdown or had weeks/months long outages.

Hate, hate, hate.

Anyway, I almost didn't make it on to lemmy dot zip -- There's a glaring bug and major UI malfunction on the web version of the sign-up form. I tried signing up, got some generic error message "InvalidName", but not indication about what was invalid about it. Tried several variations of the name I wanted, no dice. Tried "InvalidName" itself, didn't work. So I tried "InvalidName2" and that finally worked.

After all that effort to join, figured I'd stay a bit.

Just whatever’s most popular in English. So lemmy.world. And lemmy.ca because I’m Canadian. Any suggestions from others?

pawb.social because furries (kbin.social was discontinued i think so i had to leave there)

moved my mastodon account to furry.engineer because it was run by the pawb.social team. also i'd never seen a .engineer domain before lol.

and i have an account at waf.moe because i like how it looks and wafrn is different and cool. there's also custom css on profiles.

I am a programmer.

I wanted to check out PieFed because the Lemmy devs suck

I made it! I'm on MULTIVERSE, the antirealist instance

I migrated during Reddit's API debacle. I picked sh.itjust.works for several reasons:

• No email required to sign up (at the time)
• Hosted the only NonCredibleDefense community on Lemmy (at the time)
• Had almost no defederated instances (at the time)
• Consistent uptime (was 99% at the time and still not far off)
• Hosted in Canada but accepting of US citizens
• Powered by 98% renewable energy
• TheDude abides

While some things have changed like defederating from more servers, it's left up to a vote by users of the server and the vote doesn't get proposed unless there's a good reason (such as a server being Nazi-friendly or constantly harassing/trolling users)

I figured SDF were the sort of people who would consider uptime a badge of honour.

I should probably be on Hexbear but I didn't know of its existence at the time. Very problematic, my Xibuck direct deposits keep bouncing.

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)

I used lemm.ee bc of their defederation policy. When it died, I chose mander.xyz for the same reason.

Disgust over .world an piefed's neoliberal crusade.

Supporting Canadian because I am Canadian.

Smurf pie is the undisputed best ;)

Or maybe I liked Piefed features better than the previous I was using?

I chose it because it's the biggest Swedish instance, even if there are only ~100 active users.