Asklemmy

I was on dataterm.digital, I loved that server, but they went down one day and just never came back up. Sometimes I can still hear it SYN ACK

Lemmy.ml was requesting people register on other instances, and lemmy.one stepped up to fill the void.

But when people ask me what instance to sign up for, I tell them lemmy.world. it doesn't really matter, but being based in a bigger instance reduces the friction of finding communities.

It federates with the servers that have some stuff I want access to on them, and it also has rules against being a huge douche. And it's supported by Jerboa.

That's pretty much it. Mix of convenience and what passes for my moral scruples.

I want to be in control over my own data. So I spun up my own instance

I'm on lemmy.ml because my application was ignored (or not accepted, I don't know) by the smaller instances I've applied to.

Chose an instance without mandatory email account and which seemed serious

I picked Lemmy.world because I wanted a fairly large one that will likely maintain support.

I chose lemmy.ml after I heard nothing for two of my applications on beehaw. I then got in, and about a week later I got approval for the second beehaw application. So that's gonna be used eventually, but I'm really happy with lemmy.ml

lemmy.ml was the only general purpose instance when I opened my account. There were only two instances back then - lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml

Others did not exist back than.

Lemmy.ca felt like a natural home as an IRL Canadian resident. I like the variety of content and the moderation seems good so far.

Initially made an account with the instance opened after my country's subreddit made the shift, but on Jerboa trying to look at other instance content was really rough.

So I joined here since I enjoy the content, and raise the black flag every so often.

For some reason I couldn't join lemmy.world and few other popular instances, be it because of technical issues, load, idk. I joined sh.itjust.works because I wanted to check fediverse before I commit to host my own instance, which I probably will at some point.

Mod of a subreddit I was following created an instance, its was the easiest choice

I’m a pirate 🏴‍☠️ and like the community itself, friendly and helpful.

Ideology 🙂.

I picked Rammy for the name and the sidebar:

Just another Lemmy instance. We've got a cool mascott though! Open to everyone.

Why trust some Big Tech corporation to host your data when some random geek can do it? All thanks to the power of the Fediverse!

It's a local one near my country :)

Ideology 🙂.