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.
Why’d you start an instance?
It’s a good option for when you want to follow every instance and not be beholden to the server admin randomly de-federating an instance they don’t agree with personally (which was one one of the issues Reddit faced, mods with their own agenda)
If you run your own instance you can choose exactly what you get to interact with
We started a regular fediverse instance because we wanted a space for queer and gender diverse folk to be safe, on something that wasn’t Mastodon or Mastodon derived.
Once we had that running, we spun up a lemmy instance just to check it out, and it sat there basically only used by me, until Reddit Day came along, and our userbase went from 3 to 3000 in the space of a week. So now, our lemmy instance serves the same purpose as our main instance, which is to provide a safe space for our community, but focused on lemmy/the threadiverse
It’s good to hear that even small instances benefitted from Reddit Day and not just lemmy.world
And a thank you for the safe space! It’s what drew me to your instance when I found it!
Especially since most of what I was browsing on Reddit was trans or queer subs.
Yes! Big same
Yeah this one right here. I run my own little instance, made it easy to choose.
I like “universe of forums” as a descriptor.
I’m Canadian eh
I built my own 😁
How did you get email working? I was trying to use M365 as an SMTP relay but couldn’t get it working.
This is the only thing preventing me from letting others join.
same, so much fun deploying something outside of work
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.)
I joined Kbin due to a Mastodon post around launch. I currently use Camp instance as I’m a beta tester for Artemis.
On Lemmy I join ml as that was what people on Reddit were doing. I’m beta testing Bean app. Artemis and Bean are two of the best and most beautiful apps.I was on lemmy.world at first but it’s constantly down so I started searching for a new instance. I fell in love with the lemmy.zip color theme.
I’ve just been here since CTH got binned.
I have no plans to look anywhere else. I think federation is a fad, and I won’t participate elsewhere.
You’re currently participating elsewhere lol
I’m not owned
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
I missread beehaw as yeehaw, was only slightly dissapointed when I noticed.
I have a few different accounts. One on lemmy.world, but that’s been down so much, I decided I needed a backup, and quite frankly, the fact that there’s an entire Trek instance made my choice of a backup a no-brainer.
Even though I was on Reddit for 9 years, I never frequented r/startrek until this year and saw the mod posts about starting a fresh Lemmy instance. Being a member of the Federation in the Fediverse just really appealed to my geek brain.
It’s funny, I created kind of a the same thread in !fediverse@lemmy.ml a few minutes ago
Beehaw wouldn’t take sign ups without a CV submitted. Lemmy.ml was closed to sign ups and sh.it.just.works never sent me a confirmation email so I default to Lemmy.world
Yeah, I also assumed Beehaw was just checking for spambots with their prompt, so I just gave them a few words about wanting to see memes and they rejected me 😱 . Shitjustworks I thought didn’t approve me, but it was just that the confirmation email went to spam.
