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?
I did not. I ended up on lemmy.world but visiting over, which I think is a cool feature.
I guess a better question would have been, “Why did you choose your instance?”
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.
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.
same, went for the furry one.
I was looking for a furry one. Found pawb.social and yiffit. Stuck with the one that had nsfw. They both are Lemmy instances
feddit.de because it was made for german potatoes like me
Potatoes unite!
Munching on fries rn is this cannabilism?
Yes and I’ve contacted the authorities thanks for the tip
Just watch out for the Kartoffelstampfer
(I just learned that word a week or two 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.
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.
Back in my day, the only instance that federated with all other instances was lemmy.ml 👴🏻
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.
I can highly recommend this list: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
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.
Yeah, I’m on lemmy.one because of that issue too.
Knowing that Beehaw and Lemmy.ml were overloaded, I chose the next biggest one in my country at the time, which was Lemmy.one.
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.
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.
I’m trying to set up another account at mander but I haven’t had any success.
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.
Really?! That is strange. I just tested account creation and it appears to work fine. What error are you getting?
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.
For the meme.
Kbin because it was the first one that actually let me register and didn’t freeze
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.
Nice username :)
You all need some longer usernames, sheesh.
Gotta get those good names quick
I’m self-hosting my own Lemmy server, which I guess is cheating since I can get any name I want to 😛
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.
Same
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
