I saw a youtube video that said lemmy.ml was full so you can't join. I just picked a random one that wasn't ml so I chose lemmy.world
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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Tried the bee but did not get any notification I was accepted. Fortunately saw programming.dev pop on my feed and they accepted my request.
Good thing as well that I found all of my favorite programming languages on the server.
it was the only one when i joined
It's the first one I found and many others were filled with germans and I said "Nein"
I joined lemmy.ml a while ago because following cool opensource projects is my jam.
I have a few now just to test it out. I want to use feddit.nl as my standard server, but I just haven't fully figured out how this all works.
Like for example I'm on lemmy.world and subscribe to something, that channel/sub doesn't seem to appear on feddit.nl. there can be a channel with the same name but it isn't the one I subscribed to.
do things from your home instance, so once you find a community on another instance you want on your home instance, go to your home instance and search !community@other.instance eg !asklemmy@lemmy.ml and itl will pull in a few posts to start off, if you subscribe to that remote community hen your home instance will keep on getting posts.
I saw people complaining that the admins were communists and I was like dope, I love those guys.
Plus healthy number of users (maybe too many actually) and local communities
Don't worry about the too many users, commies are excellent reducing excess population
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)
Mod of a subreddit I was following created an instance, its was the easiest choice
It was nearby geographically and the guy running it seemed to know what he was doing from a technical aspect.
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.
I picked Lemmy.world because I wanted a fairly large one that will likely maintain support.
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.
IDK
Lemmy user for a couple of days here. I jumped on lemmy.world because it was big and the name suggested it was universal and open, it had open registration and allows nsfw content.
I suffered through the technical issues many of us experienced, but everything seems much better and smoother now (maybe because they were able to fix the issues, or maybe because enough people left because of them, I can't say!)
Does it matter what you use? Yes and no, I guess. Apparently the last few days performance issues were mostly local to dot-world. I did make another profile on lemm.ee and I noticed the different instances seem to show different feeds with some different content, but also many of the same posts from the same communities as well. I'm still trying to figure out how they decide what they show in their feeds. Something to do with federation, I guess, but I'm not pretending to understand the meaning of that concept yet. Given that instances can choose to federated or defederate, it seems like it must matter to some extent what instance you are on even though content can be shared between instances.
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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!
Was initially on lemmy.zip because it seemed really chill and that was such a cool instance name. I had no problems with it whatsoever but I realised it didn't block out certain instances that I disliked (aka lemmygrad). Now I'm on lemmy.fmhy.ml and I'm loving it so far since it had everything I needed:
- Blocks out lemmygrad
- Allows talk on piracy and NSFW content
- Loads better compared to the more overpopulated instances
- Wasn't very restrictive and was very welcoming (didn't even ask me for a reason for joining)
I went with ReddThat as the past tense seemed apt. Also it's a small enough instance not to feel overwhelming, while being large enough to provide content.