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?

      • simple@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        Lemmy World is run by chill people with experience. They run Mastodon.world, which is a top 10 Mastodon instance.

        Since the start it’s been the most stable instance I think, they bought a beefy server after all the Reddit shenanigans and aren’t imposing any weird restrictions. Would recommend.

  • KiranWellsEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Was looking for a furry one, and pawb.social seemed to be well-run (since it was related to a couple of decently-sized Mastodon servers) and was generic enough (and not NSFW focused). There also seemed to be a decent number of technical people there as well (in fact, one of the Mastodon instances is furry.engineer), so it matched up with my other interests as well. I considered lemmyrs.org, but ended up not choosing it.

  • Tahssi@yiffit.netEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    I was looking for a furry one. Found pawb.social and yiffit. Stuck with the one that had nsfw. They both are Lemmy instances

  • Zifnab25@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Not gonna lie. I’ve got multiple accounts across platforms. But yours seems to be responding quickly and the content is solid, so… here I am.

    • Z______@kbin.social
      5·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I was a bit confused at the start and in my haste created a few different accounts across kbin, lemmy.world, and Mastodon. Worst case scenario I have backups and I’ll just end up using the instance I prefer the most, the most.

  • Pisck@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    I joined lemmy.ml because the join-lemmy site gave me extremely little to go on. It was a coin toss between this and beehaw.org once I realized how few instances were established and not right-wing.

    That was only 2 weeks ago and already I’ve seen the site force 2 server upgrades, even as the admins have strongly encouraged new users to join elsewhere to prevent centralization.

    The instance list desperately needs a few columns added, including whether new signups are encouraged or discouraged.

  • ganksy@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years 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.

  • jrubal1462@vlemmy.netEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I landed at vlemmy.net. I tried to register at a few bigger ones that gave infinite circles. By the time I got to vlemmy I wasn’t really being too picky anymore, I was just trying to figure out if the problem was me or overloading.

    A nice side effect of landing there is that some of my very few subscriptions are on beehaw, and we haven’t been defederated.

  • Cyder@lemmy.oneEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Knowing that Beehaw and Lemmy.ml were overloaded, I chose the next biggest one in my country at the time, which was Lemmy.one.

  • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Thought about switching over, with zero knowledge of this platform, clicked random link in reddit thread and it was lemmy.world. turns out it’s populated and stable.

  • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    2 years 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.

      • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz
        2·
        2 years ago

        Hmm. The server is up right now. Does it give an error or just sit there?

        I can say I’ve had horrible luck trying to sign up through the apps. It works much better through a standard browser for initial sign up.

      • Salamander@mander.xyz
        2·
        2 years ago

        Really?! That is strange. I just tested account creation and it appears to work fine. What error are you getting?

    • elavat0r@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Mander has been lovely so far. Plenty of interesting content and chill people. It was the first instance I saw when browsing that looked friendly and yet didn’t require me to write an essay to register an account.

    • dan@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      Seriously, this. I tried for days to register on Lemmy. One day I was mid-registration and the button was just spinning, doing nothing, so I came over to kbin, registered and started using the site. Lemmy never stopped spinning. No thanks.

      • hotdogcostanza@lemm.ee
        1·
        2 years ago

        It was doing the same thing for me but I checked my email and there was a verification, once I completed it my registration went through. It didn’t actually tell me it was sending an email which is probably a flaw but it seems that’s the missing piece.

  • Garrathian@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    My current instance has a bunch of sports communities, and typically the first thing i like to look at when i was on reddit were the sports subs. I was previously on beehaw but they kind of shut themselves off from some of other big communities so i migrated off