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It does seem like some servers have specific niches, so if you're really interested in a specific servers niche using that instance would prevent you from having to sync those communities with your instance.
I'm new, so someone correct me if I'm wrong.
I think you’re right! It can be nice to have an active local feed with topics you’re interested in, so that’s a good reason to pick a topical instance (eg mander.xyz or slrpnk.net).
A friend owns it and it has a funny domain. Bonus of it being smaller is that it didn't have any performance issues yesterday/today.
•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?
Some like to keep their dirty from their public identity
It has the word world in the name, sounds bigger.
The one I use doesn't block other instances, although I probably will block the same instances and people that big instances already block, I want to be the one to make that choice and shape the content I see.
I've got accounts on 4 different instances just to see what things are like. Sometimes I want to see all sorts of posts, sometimes I want a feed of just LGBT-positive stuff, sometimes I just want to get off, different accounts on different instances for different things :)
Heard lemmy.ml and lemmy.world were being overwhelmed.
Literally just picked the biggest one to maximise the content I see
Rn it matters a bit, wont in a few weeks tho i think
Why won't it? Do you think updates will make the fragmentation of content better in a few weeks?
I have has a journey through a few instances.
I first applied to Lemmy.ml because I was interested in open source. I also applied at Lemmy.one and Beehaw because they were recommended on join-lemmy.
I got accepted at Beehaw. Then they defederated from Lemmy.world and sh.it. Stayed on Beehaw for a while but found a few communities on world that I couldn’t join, so decided to sign up to world.
World was having performance issues and I realised I could no longer interact with the Beehaw communities and people I had started talking with.
Then found lemm.ee I like the name, it hadn’t been defederated by any other instances, had good up time, was on the latest Lemmy code, and the admin seemed to know what they were doing, so joined that one. I don’t see myself moving again any time soon.
I run my own private instance so I am in control over my own data.
Tbh, I don’t think it matters what server you choose. Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, and Beehaw seem to be the big ones so picking a server that federates with those would be ideal.
The list of blocked instances made me switch from feddit.de to the current instance I'm using.
Google search. I had no clue about multiple instances. Search lemmy on Google and first link was for lemmy.ml domain so that's how I am here.
I have two. I have this one (lemmy.ml) as my broad-access instance. My other is lemmygrad, but as that is a bit more widely blocked I keep this one still. That one is used for most of my politics, and this one is my more general interest. It's kind of nice to have different communities died to different user registrations.
As to why those two in particular, I am a Marxist-Leninist so...yeah.
I saw a local instance for new Zealanders and joined.
Because I'm a furry. obligatory OwO
One of the few only lgbt friendly servers
It's the first one I found and many others were filled with germans and I said "Nein"
Not seeing anyone mentioning lemmy.one and I'm starting to think I made a bad choice.
Set up the server myself. For me, that’s part of the fediverse experience.
I'm into general instances and also a long time user of Fediverse, so I know 10-200 user instances work best. That's why I picked the first one with not too many and not too little users (the join-lemmy page only showed 50 new users when I registered, damn)
The TLD.
Well, I started my instance so it only makes sense that its also my home!
As for why I started an instance, I've always liked self-hosting stuff as its been one of the best ways I learn how stuff on the internet works, even more than I have learnt from doing some programming in my spare time. So it was an obvious move for me since I wanted to know more about how ActivityPub worked.
Originally I wasn't really planning on having open registration on my instance (otherwise I would've picked a better domain name, a bit late for that now) however as I saw Lemmy pick up pace, and the larger servers were starting to have issues, I figured that the best way I could give back was at least offer to share the load.
Picked it for the name, stayed because of the community. A lot of super nice folks here on sh.itjust.works.
The first I tried was Lemmy.ml. I applied and didn't hear back. So I joined Lemmy.world and registered immediately.
Feddit.uk - I figure regionality has benefit in keeping loads more spread, plus it hosts some good communities and a cute name.
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.
I want to be in control over my own data. So I spun up my own instance
it was the only one when i joined
I joined lemmy.ml a while ago because following cool opensource projects is my jam.
lemmy.world because it was top recommended. In the future I might change to either host my own or use my wife's ex-husband's instance.
Is that a roundabout way of saying you're getting a divorce? Does she know?
I was planning to sign up at BeeHaw because it seems pretty active and with high quality discussions. When I heard that it had defederated from Lemmy.ml and Lemmy.world I decided not to sign up to any of those three as I would rather have access to all of them (though I can understand why BeeHaw defederated). So I just went with VLemmy.net as it was one of the recommended ones (on join-lemmy.org and the Awesome-Lemmy-Instances GitHub) and seems to be very broadly federated.
I don't think it matters too much, though I think if you were signed up on the same instances as all your favourite communities it would be a bit more convenient.