I’m currently struggling to find my home. I have an account here at lemmy.ml, where most of my posts are, and one at kbin.

Why do you think your instance is the place to be?

  • SinJab0n@mujico.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I actually made my home in the one hosting a previous reddit community I was fond of, just choose one u like.

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    SDF has been around since the 1980’s. It is one of the most historically trustworthy institutions on the Internet.

    I’ve been an SDF member since 2001.

    So it just made sense to use my community’s instance of Lemmy, since I also use their Pixelfed and Mastodon.

  • ganksy@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    I chose lemmy.world solely on the fact it had a lot of members. Lemmy.ml was a contender too. I just wanted to jump in and check things out. Knowing (slightly)more now, I don’t think it was a bad choice.

  • sleepyTonia@programming.devEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I tend to hang in indie game development subreddits and didn’t want to have to deal with confrontational trolls on a regular basis, so programming.dev felt like a relatively safe choice since it’s neither a super large server or a general-purpose one. I just wanna make lil’ games and have little patience for those lacking in empathy and maturity.

    • sharp sphere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Same. Finding an instance with the best community or matching interests felt silly when everything is changing quickly and discovery is still underbaked. I went with Lemmy.world because they seemed like the most capable admins.

  • hotdogcostanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    lemm.ee said it was newcomer-friendly and I was a newcomer so bingo bango there I went. I suppose I can always join a different instance if I need to but I’m still just getting a grip on this place so I’m good for now.

  • dylan@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I switched off lemmy.ml for two reasons:

    • I didn’t want to be on the “main” instance, kinda defeats the point of federation.
    • While they were testing UI 0.17 on the instance it totally broke the site for me on both my phone and PC, I couldn’t click anything for nearly a week.

    So I settled on lemm.ee as it was a general purpose instance that wasn’t too big, and the admin is committed to staying around. And of course I was actually able to click on things. It’s nice here!

  • wumpus@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I was told it was better for load balancing if we didn’t all use the same one. So I just looked for one that had easy signups and didn’t seem overeager to block stuff. Apparently, some from this instance come form /r/china. I’m not, but I do drink coffee. Anyway, I think it’s working out so far; better than reddit anyway.

  • atp2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy.world: because it was the top result on Google and I neither knew about the other servers nor remembered my experiences with Mastodon.

    Probably going to stay here anyway.

    Mostly out of laziness

  • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyzEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I joined mander.xyz because it has a central theme around the natural sciences. It could possibly include STEM content as well; there is an ongoing discussion about it. The admin(s) are present and very responsive.

    For anyone with a love of science and/or nature I recommend it highly as a home instance of Lemmy.

  • TanknSpank@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This was linked on some post about alternatives to that other site I want to stop using. And honestly I’m quite confused on the “it doesn’t matter/it does matter” so I’m just rolling with it and not trying to worry about it.

  • bigmanjezza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    lemmy.ml was broken and lemmy.world was the first one I saw besides that one. that’s about it

    edit: did a bit of scrolling, sounds like kbin might be a better fit, what do y’all feel is better?