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?

  • Zifnab25@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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
      2·
      1 year 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.

  • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year 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.

    • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I like the domain and it wasn’t overloaded like most of the Lemmy.xx ones. I was torn between this and beehaw, glad i went with sh.itjust.works

      • SickIcarus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Me too. I actually put in an application for an account on Beehaw on day 1 just because they seemed to be the most active (before I understood how any of this works.) Never got a reply - I think we both dodged a bullet 🤣

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I just picked lemmy.one mostly at random, but also in part because it advertised itself as well regulated but also not heavily populated and thus prone to crashing with the recent influx of reddfugees.

    Seems to work okay, but I can’t create a community without admin approval and the instance also disallows downvoting, and I’m not a big fan of that at all, but I’ll give it a while longer and see.

    I’m still finding it a challenge to find the balance of communities that interest me I used to have. There’s an awful lot of meta chatter about the site itself from new users that, while I understand, gets rather annoying when it takes up the whole feed. So it’s definitely an adjustment, resulting in me using it less than I did my old haunts, but in the meantime I’ve gotten a lot more reading done than I used to, so I’ve got that going for me.

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Me, I’m waiting for things to settle a bit and see what recommendations float to the surface for me. Not being able to downvote might turn out to actually be good for my own mental health. We’ll see.

  • Sploosh the Water@vlemmy.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Randomly came across mine. Was gunna join a larger instance just for testing, but it was right as the big Reddit rush was happening and my signups kept failing.

    So I went with this one.

  • ram@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I went with lemmy.ca because I figured it’d put me in proximity to Canadian Political discourse.

  • KiranWells@pawb.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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.

  • SinJab0n@mujico.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I actually made my home in the one hosting a previous reddit community I was fond of, just choose one u like.

  • Tahssi@yiffit.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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

  • wumpus@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I was told it was better for load balancing if we didn’t all use the same one. So I just looked for one that had easy signups and didn’t seem overeager to block stuff. Apparently, some from this instance come form /r/china. I’m not, but I do drink coffee. Anyway, I think it’s working out so far; better than reddit anyway.