@fedicate@break3.social @asklemmy@lemmy.world The need for almost seamless posting between personal feed microblogging and Threadiverse exchanging, alongside text formatting features and large-enough max character limit. This is why I ended up sticking with Calckey.

I got into a fight in a bar, and some guy showed up, intervened, then hung out and kinda insisted I follow in my father's footsteps. I was like, meh, but I had nothing better to do, so I signed up.

Slrpnk was down for a few days and the admin was super transparent about what was going on (iirc, they were on a business trip and something happened to their home server that needed a physical button press). I was happy with that level of communication, and occasional down time is good for getting out and touching grass.

edit: I was on sdf before, but they're a lot less transparent about maintenance issues.

Dring the Reddit Migration, this was the first one I heard about, so I picked it. Haven't been bothered to change it since.

I think people go the wrong way with instancing, I get it that people don't want to see certain things and that is true of everyone too but we should be doing that kind of filtering as individual users only after the instance allows mostly everything to come in, excluding anything obviously bad but not automatically excluding anything political in certain ways for example.

So that's why I choose things like peertube.wtf because it is everything minus whatever I choose not to subscribe to.

And Lemmy.zip because it is relatively open for everyone

People also go the same way with ai, trying to pin it down to specific things in its personality before you even prompt it, it should be biased towards more connectivity before you go pinning it down.

Blåhaj.

Gender dysphoria

For Lemmy I just chose a larger instance and went with it. I've considered moving to one more aligned with my interests though hasn't been much reason to yet.

For Mastodon I went with Fosstodon precisely for my interests as I can better enjoy the local feed.

Saw someone getting really bad tech tips, signed up to interject. Stuck around cause it's a cool name, suspect we may be defederated from some of the spicier instances, miss em but not enough to change right now

Ooh, I might switch.

Same. But for Mastodon I went with tech.lgbt, which honestly is a way stronger overlap of my identity and interests.

The other furry instance shut down. 😞

Dutch

Same. Well, was. Still at heart.

so I liked kbin a lot and it was cause of ernest and what he was doing. then when it kinda fell apart I joined a small mbin instance based on what they guy who runs it wrote which was mostly just about being very much against censorship. Then piefed came about and what im on now is kinda the main instance and honestly its about the devs again who just were passionate about making something great and really expanding capabilities and such. I use a web portal and mostly im following the features I guess with features being things that put as much control in the hands of the user as possible.

It was the first one I saw that didn't have a "silly" name.

.world was the biggest one. I have since switched to one that doesnt have abusive zionist mods in news and worldnews (looking at you, jordanlund), but I still come back to .world periodically when I dont see much new content on the instance I like. Mods moderating to support their own biases can ruin a site.

i chose mander.xyz because they do not de-federate or block any instances (other than threads) - I would like the opportunity to do my own censoring. That said, it is a great instance with good up time and hosted communities. Science FTW. A++

Same here. lemm.ee refugee, wanted something similar in regards to federation policy and admin vibe.

In comparison, lemmy.today is a bit slower, but I'll take slow and extant over extinct any day.

It's located in my country.

It worked, and was better than my previous instance.

I have problems with control and lack of choice, when my first instance started de-federating willy nilly I started growing distaste on it. To me it wasn't about what /was/ being censored, to me it was the fact that they were doing so in the first place, while doing so with very little public input. It gave really large Karen/power trip vibes and made me feel like at the end of the day, they didn't really care about the userbase.

After a quick search, the official reason is that ani.social is full of CSAM. Which is outright false.

My conspiracy theory is that those Chinese agents hate the growing soft power of Japan through anime.

what even is the difference idek at this point

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

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

Well time to wait however long to get approved.

I already use mlem for lemmy

Just to reiterate, this is a conspiracy theory. I wouldn't put too much weight into it.

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 just picked the biggest one this time. I've had 3 others shut down on me since I've been using Lemmy.

I’m hosting my own, I don’t wanna have to rely on someone else to do a good job for me

I didn't know about instances, it was the first one that popped up. 🤦

More reliable than lemdro.id, European (low ping) and it isn't .ml or lemmygrad.

Yeah, also when you click on an account you see the full name and when commenting.

I mean at least there is a national instance, so far I have found like 2 or 3 other Lithuanians on lemmy xD.

Well the german feddit.de stopped working where I initially was after the reddit exodus thing. Feddit.org became the best successor. They have a sensible block list and a lot of german and european communities so I like it here. And I think the mod team is doing a pretty good job

when I started here there were not many people and only some instances were big enough to interact. Have you been to .ml? only crazy ppl. So I came to world and prayed for the best

That sounds odd if that is an option. My doesn't show instances if it's the same as mine. However, since this is all federated, you can have the same username as someone else from another instance. If it doesn't show instances then that could be confusing at best, if not used maliciously.

Also, your client probably has an option to display NSFW posts. I don't see any reason for an instance admin to do so.

It’s not really locked or kept from us. We can just choose it to visually declutter.

I don’t really care what instance someone is from. If I need to know, I can just tap their name.

I went with .ml because (IIRC, I might be wrong) that was the instance that the people who made Lemmy used. I'm not wild about how .ml censors some words but it doesn't bother me enough to change.

Instance??

Seconing this. Plus I didn't know that many instances, and was too lazy to change.

I don't really care what instance they're from, but I do care who they are. It's like if we just went by our first names here, there would be so much confusion with common first names. You'd need to at least use their last name to know if they're the same person or not. With federation, you can have the same name as someone else on a different instance. I don't really care where they're from usually, but it is important for identification.

In my opinion, this is less declutter and more obfuscation. There's potentially important information that isn't being shown. Often it isn't an issue, but sometimes it is.

The server you're on!

Like how you're on infosec.pub, the OP is on break3.social, the community (subreddit equivalent) is on lemmy.world, and I'm on pawb.social. :3

-- Frost