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?

  • sleepyTonia@programming.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I tend to hang in indie game development subreddits and didn’t want to have to deal with confrontational trolls on a regular basis, so programming.dev felt like a relatively safe choice since it’s neither a super large server or a general-purpose one. I just wanna make lil’ games and have little patience for those lacking in empathy and maturity.

  • SinJab0n@mujico.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

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

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    SDF has been around since the 1980’s. It is one of the most historically trustworthy institutions on the Internet.

    I’ve been an SDF member since 2001.

    So it just made sense to use my community’s instance of Lemmy, since I also use their Pixelfed and Mastodon.

  • AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyzEnglish
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    2 years 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.

    • sharp sphere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Same. Finding an instance with the best community or matching interests felt silly when everything is changing quickly and discovery is still underbaked. I went with Lemmy.world because they seemed like the most capable admins.

      • lixus98@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

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

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years 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
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    2 years 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.

    • dan@kbin.social
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      2 years 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.

      • hotdogcostanza@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        It was doing the same thing for me but I checked my email and there was a verification, once I completed it my registration went through. It didn’t actually tell me it was sending an email which is probably a flaw but it seems that’s the missing piece.

  • TanknSpank@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    This was linked on some post about alternatives to that other site I want to stop using. And honestly I’m quite confused on the “it doesn’t matter/it does matter” so I’m just rolling with it and not trying to worry about it.

  • atp2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Lemmy.world: because it was the top result on Google and I neither knew about the other servers nor remembered my experiences with Mastodon.

    Probably going to stay here anyway.

    Mostly out of laziness