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?

  • wumpus@latte.isnot.coffeeEnglish
    3·
    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.

  • 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.

  • ganksy@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year 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.

  • hotdogcostanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    lemm.ee said it was newcomer-friendly and I was a newcomer so bingo bango there I went. I suppose I can always join a different instance if I need to but I’m still just getting a grip on this place so I’m good for now.

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    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
        1·
        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.

      • lixus98@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        I like microblogging platforms; they allow me to get information faster (albeit less information) than these types of posts.

    • dan@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year 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.

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

    Joined sh.itjust.works since it’s located in North America, has open registration, and the admin sounds like he knows what he’s doing running a server. I’ve stayed 'cause it’s been stable and I like the admin’s vibe. It and lemmy.world seem to have become the main large “general purpose” instances since they both have open registration.

    I also have an account on kbin that I’m not using much at the moment. I think that site has lots of future potential, though.

  • Sploosh the Water@vlemmy.netEnglish
    1·
    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.