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β’Lemmy.ml - Signed up here first, was recommended to it as a general place to sign up to
β’Lemmy.blahaj.zone - Egg memes, blΓ₯haj memes, just memes
β’Lemmy.world - Handy for extra world news communities
β’Lemmynsfw.com - Do I need to explain. This is under a different name, but I've kinda used that name over on the other place and I'm slowly bringing my content over (plus new stuff)
I only use one and four regularly
You know that you can follow your desired communities from other servers, all with e.g. the lemmy.ml account?
Some like to keep their dirty from their public identity
Afaik, lemmynsfw requires you to be logged in to see nswf content. In other words, you can't easily view it from other servers.
I read some comments that lemmy.ca was well run to the extent that it was being recommended even by non-Canadians. Being Canadian myself, that was good enough for me.
It's a friendly instance and is well-run. The admin manually approved registrations which kept them safe from the great bot invasion and is now upgrading the server and bringing on more admins.
I run my own private instance so I am in control over my own data.
Tbh, I donβt think it matters what server you choose. Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, and Beehaw seem to be the big ones so picking a server that federates with those would be ideal.
I joined lemmy.ca because I like to keep a diet of local news and a place to avoid American influence. I like using my local feed for well the local stuff and then my subscriptions for all the niche interests that the Canadian community couldn't sustain alone.
I have a few now just to test it out. I want to use feddit.nl as my standard server, but I just haven't fully figured out how this all works.
Like for example I'm on lemmy.world and subscribe to something, that channel/sub doesn't seem to appear on feddit.nl. there can be a channel with the same name but it isn't the one I subscribed to.
It's the first one I found and many others were filled with germans and I said "Nein"
I owned a funny domain
I am hosting it lol
Set up the server myself. For me, thatβs part of the fediverse experience.
The one I use doesn't block other instances, although I probably will block the same instances and people that big instances already block, I want to be the one to make that choice and shape the content I see.
I joined the one hosted by my country's community. The community is really great.
I'm into general instances and also a long time user of Fediverse, so I know 10-200 user instances work best. That's why I picked the first one with not too many and not too little users (the join-lemmy page only showed 50 new users when I registered, damn)
The list of blocked instances made me switch from feddit.de to the current instance I'm using.
Heard lemmy.ml and lemmy.world were being overwhelmed.
Country, I live in The Netherlands so I searched for a Dutch hosted instance with Dutch owner.
Because I'm a furry. obligatory OwO
I have two. I have this one (lemmy.ml) as my broad-access instance. My other is lemmygrad, but as that is a bit more widely blocked I keep this one still. That one is used for most of my politics, and this one is my more general interest. It's kind of nice to have different communities died to different user registrations.
As to why those two in particular, I am a Marxist-Leninist so...yeah.
Not seeing anyone mentioning lemmy.one and I'm starting to think I made a bad choice.
I'm here! I read some disappointing stuff about the creator of it, but I'm not on Lemmy for the personality-worship. If it works, that's all I need.
I'm hoping it eventually allows downvoting and community creation, but I understand leaving that out at least while it deals with the waves of new users.
One of the few only lgbt friendly servers
I signed up with beehaw first, but realized that they were defederated from lemmygrad, which I wanted access to. As I became more acquainted with lemmy and started looking into the "flavors" of the different instances, I joined lemmy.ml because they are unapologetic communists and won't defederate with lemmygrad.
As an aside, it's fucking insane to me that lemmygrad is so controversial yet there's crickets about exploding-heads and people are happy to be on instances that don't block them. Cool
Feddit.uk - I figure regionality has benefit in keeping loads more spread, plus it hosts some good communities and a cute name.
Google search. I had no clue about multiple instances. Search lemmy on Google and first link was for lemmy.ml domain so that's how I am here.
Well, I started my instance so it only makes sense that its also my home!
As for why I started an instance, I've always liked self-hosting stuff as its been one of the best ways I learn how stuff on the internet works, even more than I have learnt from doing some programming in my spare time. So it was an obvious move for me since I wanted to know more about how ActivityPub worked.
Originally I wasn't really planning on having open registration on my instance (otherwise I would've picked a better domain name, a bit late for that now) however as I saw Lemmy pick up pace, and the larger servers were starting to have issues, I figured that the best way I could give back was at least offer to share the load.
The domain name. And the community seemed friendly enough. Now with the Reddit exodus, I'm glad I migrated to a smaller instance.
I signed up with lemmy.ml originally, but then it was a little hugged to death. I couldn't update my community, couldn't post pictures or anything and I kept getting errors.
I went through the list that was only like 10 servers or something at the time, found slrpnk.net which had the vibes of the subreddit I run and found a new home for NoLawns. The guy who runs it seems pretty cool when I had to reach out to him so I've made it my home.
I did also just make a kbin the other day to see what that's all about too but with no app (yet there's a few in the works), I've stuck here.
I saw a local instance for new Zealanders and joined.
I want to be in control over my own data. So I spun up my own instance
I was going to choose sopuli.xyz but you need to give them a reason to why you want there and I never heard back from them and logging in does nothing, so I assume I was not selected. I say it would be fair if there was some message to go f myself so that I wouldn't be held in eternal limbo.
So I chose lemmy.world as it's a general purpose instance and immediate registry.
I was planning to sign up at BeeHaw because it seems pretty active and with high quality discussions. When I heard that it had defederated from Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world I decided not to sign up to any of those three as I would rather have access to all of them (though I can understand why BeeHaw defederated). So I just went with VLemmy.net as it was one of the recommended ones (on join-lemmy.org and the Awesome-Lemmy-Instances GitHub) and seems to be very broadly federated.
I don't think it matters too much, though I think if you were signed up on the same instances as all your favourite communities it would be a bit more convenient.
Is there really a difference between the different servers? I just browse all (It's lemm.ee btw)