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.

  • @[email protected]
    13•2 years ago

    IDK I just kinda ended up here. The domain is easy to memorize, I guess.

    (Edit: And it never goes down cause no one uses it.)

  • freamonEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    I chose my current one because it offered Alexandrite as a front-end, and I didn’t realise I could’ve just gone to alexandrite.app and used it for my old instance ('cos I’m stoopid).

    • kratoz29OPEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Wait can we do this? Haha

      I am gonna try it, is it also possible with the old.lemmy interface?

      • charizardcharz
        4•2 years ago

        It is, along with a bunch of alternative frontends. The old.lemmy one is mlmym with the dev’s deployment at mlmym.org or you can self-host it using the docker image.

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    Picked one with a funny name and the admin seemed quite relaxed but it appears to have gone offline permanently.

  • nudny ekscentrykEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Mine is araik the only that’s specific to my country (except a kbin one) and I decided to stay over here and support it (by both creating traffic and financially) despite it being orders of magnitude smaller than the mainstream ones.

  • southsamurai
    11•2 years ago

    I didn’t pick one.

    I spread that shit out over a bunch of instances.

    Decentralized myself lol. There’s no need to think of lemmy in terms of a single home. You can do that, but I prefer to think of it as a bunch of crash pads. Bounce between them as needed, maintain the accounts, and even if one homie can’t put you up for the night, another one can.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•2 years ago

    I had an account before I even knew there were many instances. I thought it was just a website.

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    Made my own for myself and some friends. We couldn’t be bothered creating account on the larger instances and have power tripping admins de-federating instances over trivial issues.

  • OtterEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    I’m located in Canada so I picked between the local ones. I spent a lot of my time looking at subs for my city/province/school/Canada, so it seemed like a good call. I also liked going to places like bapcsalesCanada because I could actually make use of the information, so I’m looking forward to that as well.

    It’s also nice to have some influence over where my data is stored and the laws around it.

    • James Dreben :mw:
      1•2 years ago

      @kratoz29 Obviously I wrote this from Mastodon though so I still primarily use kbin/Lemmy through mastodon. But when I do pop over to the other Lemmy apps I tend to login through my Beehaw account.