Does it actually matter?
lemmy.ml because when I joined I had no idea of how the fediverse worked. I’d change it to a smaller one but it really doesn’t matter much I don’t think.
It doesn’t really matter actually, but I would prefer to stay on the one with more members as it will probably last longer than other instances
The first I tried was Lemmy.ml. I applied and didn’t hear back. So I joined Lemmy.world and registered immediately.
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
Everywhere I’ve seen has been defederating from exploding-heads.
There is several of factors you should consider:
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Does it have a healthy amount of users: between 1k-10k users are probably the sweet spot right now. You don’t want too many users because it will cause performance problems. And instances with too few users has too many unknowns.
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read the rules see if you agree: servers can have wildy different rules ranging from no NSFW to no downvotes. If they don’t have any rules that is a red flag too. You want an active moderation so the instance doesn’t get run over by bots.
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Does it look low effort: check the banner, how the announcement formatted.
That is probably all the basics
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I’m on sh.itjust.works. Not gonna lie, related to that name naturally.
Exactly the same for me. Choosing an instance based on values, content, or location is so lame. I chose my instance based on the funny name.
Although sh.itjust.works democratic moderation is pretty based.
I googled Lemmy and signed up to the first result, not knowing what instances were back then.
I’m the admin :p
Tried the bee but did not get any notification I was accepted. Fortunately saw programming.dev pop on my feed and they accepted my request.
Good thing as well that I found all of my favorite programming languages on the server.
It doesn’t but I thought it did
it was the only one when i joined
It has the word world in the name, sounds bigger.
•Lemmy.ml - Signed up here first, was recommended to it as a general place to sign up to
•Lemmy.blahaj.zone - Egg memes, blåhaj memes, just memes
•Lemmy.world - Handy for extra world news communities
•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?
Yeah, but there’s at least one community I’ve found that’s on an instance that have defederated my main, so what I posted there the other day gained zero traction, and only found out the reason last night (re-found the community through Mastodon and couldn’t see my own post). So having alt accounts for those edge cases is my thinking
Plus I post sightly different things on my nsfw account compared to this one 🤣
Some like to keep their dirty from their public identity
It’s the first one I found and many others were filled with germans and I said “Nein”
I saw people complaining that the admins were communists and I was like dope, I love those guys.
Plus healthy number of users (maybe too many actually) and local communities
Don’t worry about the too many users, commies are excellent reducing excess population
