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I looked at it, it seemed mostly vanilla, had good servers, didn't have defederation drama like lemmy.world, thought it's cool.

I'd be open to move to a "leftist" lemmy instance, but as a staunch anarchist I'm not really compatible with lemmygrad or hexbear.

Because it is close to "Reddit".

Super lame, but that was the criteria and it made me laugh at myself.

Joined programming.dev because it is more related to my interests

Beehaw because of their friendliness combined with a very low tolerance for trolls and hate speech, plus Kbin.social because they haven’t defederated with any major instances.

Because unilem has a policy of not defederating from other instances. If I see a post I don't want to see again I can block it, but it's my decision.

I just liked the vibe and name of Kbin. It reminded me of Kerbin, the home planet in Kerbal Space Program.

I later learned it might be the Polish word for magazine. The "subreddits" here are called magazines, but it could also mean like gun magazine. The latter of which I don't really care for (especially as a US user), but in the end, I don't really gaf. It's just a chill place to hang out.

Started with wirebase.org because it's local, but there was a lot of downtime. Switched to lemmy.sdf.org because they're also local, but are also a really old group that still hosts Usenet stuff. I've recently learned that they have never defederated though, and so I'm considering leaving because I don't believe in giving a platform to obvious disinformation and hate campaigns.

Started with lemm.ee just because it was the first instance I found when I looked up lemmy. Moved over to lemmy.world when I tried to customise my profile a bit and hit the image size cap but now I’m spending most of my time back on lemm.ee anyway because lemmy.world seems to be offline most of the time.

Well, I created the instance I'm on so it seemed like a logical choice!

I created it primarily because I am a fan of self-hosting stuff, and I also figured it would be a cool way for me to contribute to the Fediverse - even if its not really that large.

This was recommended when I made my account. There weren't any regional communities for where I'm from, so Finland seems as good a choice as any.

I'm not sure I made an informed decision, but if there are real downsides to my choice I haven't noticed them yet. I seem to be able to see the things I want to. I have to use the block button liberally, but I can't see that being instance related. It's largely due to using All at times, and not having strong enough tagging/filtering tools to make that workable without blocking tons of communities that are fine, but not for me.

I started on .ml way before the reddit fallout. Once I actually started using it, I spun up my own instance.

But, based on these comments, hexbear.net sounds like a fun place....

I started on lemmy.fmhy.net, then jumped to lemm.ee when I heard about the domain issues. But I wasn't aware of just how big lemm.ee really was, and I like the idea of being on a smaller instance to help with decentralization. I looked around and saw leminal.space and I thought that was a pretty good pun. It was really as simple as that.

Started on lemmy.ml, when they were experiencing some performance issues I decided to "be distributed" away from one of the main instances. Decided on one geographically in my home country.

Only user on my instance - admittedly this is my mod account not my primary, it still lives elsewhere on one of the main instances. I'm still unsure if running a niche instance that's designed to host communities, if I should also open registration or not.

Kinda picked it at random when scrolling through my choices.

At the time (which was over a year ago 👵) it was the only Lemmy instance that didn't have a verification process and I was impatient but I stayed for the community and really like it here!

I use kbin.social mostly because I liked the interface better and I wanted to be contrary, and if I ever self-host it, I'm much more familiar with PHP than Rust.

I joined lemmy.world because it sounded nice. Was easy to remember.

I really had no reason to choose specific one, so why not this one?

I was on lemmy.ml at the start of the blackout, but it kept crashing, then went to shit just works because they seemed pretty loose and I didn't want my feed censored like a lot of other instances were on about.

I took a look at r/android and the got sold immediately by "fastest instance out there"

I liked the name #kbin more than #lemmy, and the integration of #microblogging is a feature I appreciate. IME, lemmy also tends to attract more memes and shitposts, which generally turn me off.

I'm on Lemmy.world. I just picked it because it was one of the biggest, but I haven't been entirely happy with it.

• EU based.
• Neutral stance on political alignment.
• The "no bigotry" rule, that applies to everyone, not selectively.