What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?

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

Cuz shit just works

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

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

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 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!

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.

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

I am a programmer.

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.

Supporting Canadian because I am Canadian.

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 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)

Its name.

Blåhaj.

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 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

Gender dysphoria

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.

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 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 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

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

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

Main dev instance.

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?

The other furry instance shut down. 😞

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

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

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.

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.

.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 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

Disgust over .world an piefed's neoliberal crusade.

I wanted to check out PieFed because the Lemmy devs suck

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.

It's located in my country.

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.

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.

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

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++

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Dutch

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

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.

My girlfriend

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Instance??

wetdry.world is an awesome name and fun instance.

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

"Shit just works." Oh good! I like it when shit just works!

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

Smurf pie is the undisputed best ;)

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

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

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

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

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.

Tee hee, funni name.

[+based in Canada]

@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.