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Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I'm intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don't know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it.

That made me curious of how you decided to join?

I firstly join to lemmy.fmhy.ml thanks to Spez and a Reddit post from FMHY subreddit, then the tragedy occurred, then I joined to lemmy.world which is/was my main one because I pictured it like a good home, then lemmy.fmhy.net revived and I am with them too, but seems like they are in a bit of trouble with the server, finally now I am in lemm.ee, but only because I just wanted another backup, not because I searched for it especially (also it was mentioned in a comment about smaller instances and one user from here throw a joke to not join here because it sucks so that way the server would be more stable, so yeah, I joined).

To be clear I am not in search for yet another instance (that sounds like a good instance name to be fair), I just want to know how the deciding process is for you, is it just random? Is it because of personal tastes?

I couldn't care less about NSFW stuff, I don't search for it specifically, but my day won't be ruined if I see a tit.

I like gaming, tech, Linux, SBC gaming, emulation, macOS, Android stuff etc (yeah how original) should I look for an instance dedicated to that if I ever want to join yet another one? Because I see topics like this in almost any instance.

I read you lemmings!

EDIT: BTW the migration process has been easier for me thanks to LASIM, so I wouldn't be scared if I ever want/have to migrate again.

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[–] Poik@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

An overwhelming desire to never be taken seriously by the average user.

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

I'm on slrpnk.net

I wanted originally to join one of the big ones, but figured that I should distribute the load by going for a smaller instance. I was scrolling through a list of instances and saw the logo and the name. I was already vaguely familiar with solarpunk, so I chose it because it appeals to me (environmental awareness, anarchism, optimism, DIY, upcycling, pragmatism and so on). To be completely honest, I had no idea what "choosing a home instance" entailed at the time.

Pretty happy with the decision though, it's a themed instance so locally I get stuff you'd expect, and when browsing all I mostly see stuff from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml and the rest.

Not a particularly interesting story, but nevertheless here it is.

couldn't join lemmy.world and i had a blahaj

[–] faintedheart@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I was on lemmy.world. It has some power tripping admins and also most of the time it is under attack. So I switched to the current one and it is fine and fast and stable most of the time.

[–] Oha@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Yoruio@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have a similar story where I originally went with FMHY up until it went down. I decided to go with dbzer0 because they have a similar stance for discussing piracy.

That said, as far as I know, they have the same rule as /r/piracy when it comes to requesting or linking to content which I don't personally like. I enjoyed helping people find music and TV shows on FMHY. They also want to keep things SFW which I don't personally have strong feelings about one way or the other but I'd prefer an instance with an indifferent approach.

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[–] Gruntyfish@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm on lemmy.world.

I joined while lemmy.ml was still the biggest instance. While I was picking an instance, I read that people should consider joining the smaller instances instead of lemmy.ml. I think the idea was to promote horizontal growth across lemmy instead of vertical growth on one instance. I picked lemmy.world because I liked the instance admin running it, and I wanted to help spread out the user base.

Didn't realize that lemmy.world would quickly become the biggest instance and encounter all the growing pains of rapid growth, but I still stick with this instance to be a part of identifying what those growing pains are so they can hopefully be fixed and grow Lemmy into a more mature platform that is capable of scaling up.

[–] moobythegoldensock@geddit.social 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was one of the suggested ones on Memmy and the description seemed reddit-like so I picked it.

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[–] _TK@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly I just liked the icon and it didn't seem like a shitty place to be. A smaller instance also basically guaranteed a username I would like to use was available.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Beehaw defederated lemmy.world, but has the best news. I didn’t want to join beehaw, and have family from Canada so…. ca it is

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[–] FlowerTree@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Honestly, because of my interest, as you can tell from my instance's name and purpose. It's the first furry instance I see and also the most popular one, that's the initial reason.

My main activity on Reddit is wetshaving related. A cool user there started this instance so I joined it. We've set it up as similarly to the subreddit as possible as far as rules and organization goes.

That's a cool tool that you linked to! Instances will undoubtedly come and go over the years, and it's good to know something like that exists.

[–] QuietStorm@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

we bacily have a similar story, i use to be in lemmy.fmhy.ml because of how open it was to discussion but i believe its gone now which stinks, so i moved to lemm.ee which im ok with at the moment, i guess.

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

As I have stated, they are back at lemmy.fmhy.net, so be sure to check it out!

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I found one for my regional area because I went looking for my state community, and I didn’t know how to join it from .world. Now that we’re spreading out, I’m using it as my main. I also use Kbin quite frequently too, tho, but they don’t have an iOS app yet so not as much.

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[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Started with a really small instance, didn't really have a whole lot of content in All and struggled to find communities, so I joined lemmy.world, which got me a lot more content and communities, but now it's constantly having issues. So I'm trying this instance (as an alt for now) because there is a federation helper running on it. I'm honestly not sure which instance I will stick with long-term.

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[–] transistor@lemdro.id 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there any way to export saved messages and comments to a new account?

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Because I thought it'd be interesting to try hosting one myself.

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