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It would be weird to host an instance without using it...

Cuz shit just works

I didn't give a shit

My account on the old nsfw stopped working because apparently someone shit the bed or stopped doing something or whatever

It's not something that I care about, so I just did whatever

I have no idea what instance I'm on

I don't even know what instances are, or what difference it makes

maintainer is from my country, rules are good and reasonable, nice local content, no local drama

Very small blocked list and doesn't block NSFW. Users should make their own choices. Also awesome stats every month.

This is probably the first sharkey post I see on lemmy. It looks really good, nice.

I heard people I respect talk about it in ways I enjoyed :)

The public feed, rules, etc. also looked like a good match for me. And I'm absolutely grateful to be able to post from here!

After reaching out and proving I was human, the admins agreed to activate my account manually so I didn't have to enter a valid email address.

I am a programmer.

I needed to make a new account when lemm.ee shut down and feddit.uk was the first one that came to mind. I'm not even from the UK.

Kbin was my first, shit was fucky with it for a bit so I changed. No complaints about world (Yet anyhow)

I migrated during Reddit's API debacle. I picked sh.itjust.works for several reasons:

• No email required to sign up (at the time)
• Hosted the only NonCredibleDefense community on Lemmy (at the time)
• Had almost no defederated instances (at the time)
• Consistent uptime (was 99% at the time and still not far off)
• Hosted in Canada but accepting of US citizens
• Powered by 98% renewable energy
• TheDude abides

While some things have changed like defederating from more servers, it's left up to a vote by users of the server and the vote doesn't get proposed unless there's a good reason (such as a server being Nazi-friendly or constantly harassing/trolling users)

Its name.

Supporting Canadian because I am Canadian.

Blåhaj.

I was on lemmy.ee and when it shut down I wanted to join an instance that wouldn't defederate unless it absolutely had to, .today was the first option I saw and it works well enough for what I need it for

Dring the Reddit Migration, this was the first one I heard about, so I picked it. Haven't been bothered to change it since.

Gender dysphoria

I've been an SDF member for about 25 years. They created a Lemmy server, I tried it out, and here I am.

When I was on Reddit, /r/CasualUK/ was my spiritual home, so moving to Feddit UK, home of !casualuk@feddit.uk, was a no brainer.

Its a decently sized Piefed Server that allows me to talk about Politics.

I used to use Piefed dot World and before that Lemmy Word but they explicitly and openly support the misogynist, transphobic, pro-war, pro-genocide tankie Lemmy Developers, so I don't go there anymore.

EDIT: The hecks this little fedicate bubble?

I saw a post recommending lemmy.zip for beginners, and, while it doesn't cater to my interests at all, it is a casual, well run, and nicely designed instance. I didn't understand what an instance was, but now I like the design of blorp.lemmy.zip

The other furry instance shut down. 😞

I was looking over instances sorted by uptime, saw one that had high uptime, a lot of users, and a literal promise that shit will just work in its name. I did a bit of scoping to see that it was easy to view communities across all instances from SJW and figured, fuck it, seems like as good a choice as any.

I started with lemmy.world, the biggest generalist instance, for an easy starting point. I thought I would be interacting in programming and anime threads.

In the end, I end up discussing mostly weeb stuff, so ani.social looks more appropriate.

Also, I don't know the specifics, but if ani.social triggered lemmy.ml enough for lemmy.ml to defederate from ani.social, it must be doing something right.

In my experience, the instance and community moderators of ani.social are based. I barely see any drama unlike some other instances. I'd say I chose well.

I didn't know about instances, it was the first one that popped up. 🤦

when I started here there were not many people and only some instances were big enough to interact. Have you been to .ml? only crazy ppl. So I came to world and prayed for the best

Because I already started using Mastodon.World years ago, then Lemmy.World, and now Piefed.World. 🤷‍♂️

Slrpnk was down for a few days and the admin was super transparent about what was going on (iirc, they were on a business trip and something happened to their home server that needed a physical button press). I was happy with that level of communication, and occasional down time is good for getting out and touching grass.

edit: I was on sdf before, but they're a lot less transparent about maintenance issues.

I hear piefed is the new better thing so why not try it out?

I picked one at random. Then I quickly realised .ml is nuts so I picked a different random one. How do I feel about about my instance? No strong feelings one way or the other. It's ok I guess

I'm using sdf half because they are part of a service I already paid for and half because I'm too lazy to make myself more accounts somewhere else.

It was the first one I saw that didn't have a "silly" name.

I chose from the general purpose instances because I don’t know enough about or align myself closely with the more niche instances. The stability of the instances and number of instances it blocked/was blocked by was also a factor, since I wanted a neutral experience - here’s where I found that data.

After lemm.ee shut down, I wanted to try PieFed, and the name piefed.world made me imagine a world fed with pie. Thought that was cute.

Disgust over .world an piefed's neoliberal crusade.

I chose it because it's the biggest Swedish instance, even if there are only ~100 active users.

.world was the biggest one. I have since switched to one that doesnt have abusive zionist mods in news and worldnews (looking at you, jordanlund), but I still come back to .world periodically when I dont see much new content on the instance I like. Mods moderating to support their own biases can ruin a site.

i chose mander.xyz because they do not de-federate or block any instances (other than threads) - I would like the opportunity to do my own censoring. That said, it is a great instance with good up time and hosted communities. Science FTW. A++

I figured SDF were the sort of people who would consider uptime a badge of honour.

I should probably be on Hexbear but I didn't know of its existence at the time. Very problematic, my Xibuck direct deposits keep bouncing.

Literally every single instance I've ever joined has either died/shutdown or had weeks/months long outages.

Hate, hate, hate.

Anyway, I almost didn't make it on to lemmy dot zip -- There's a glaring bug and major UI malfunction on the web version of the sign-up form. I tried signing up, got some generic error message "InvalidName", but not indication about what was invalid about it. Tried several variations of the name I wanted, no dice. Tried "InvalidName" itself, didn't work. So I tried "InvalidName2" and that finally worked.

After all that effort to join, figured I'd stay a bit.

I wanted to check out PieFed because the Lemmy devs suck