Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I’m intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don’t know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it.

That made me curious of how you decided to join?

I firstly join to lemmy.fmhy.ml thanks to Spez and a Reddit post from FMHY subreddit, then the tragedy occurred, then I joined to lemmy.world which is/was my main one because I pictured it like a good home, then lemmy.fmhy.net revived and I am with them too, but seems like they are in a bit of trouble with the server, finally now I am in lemm.ee, but only because I just wanted another backup, not because I searched for it especially (also it was mentioned in a comment about smaller instances and one user from here throw a joke to not join here because it sucks so that way the server would be more stable, so yeah, I joined).

To be clear I am not in search for yet another instance (that sounds like a good instance name to be fair), I just want to know how the deciding process is for you, is it just random? Is it because of personal tastes?

I couldn’t care less about NSFW stuff, I don’t search for it specifically, but my day won’t be ruined if I see a tit.

I like gaming, tech, Linux, SBC gaming, emulation, macOS, Android stuff etc (yeah how original) should I look for an instance dedicated to that if I ever want to join yet another one? Because I see topics like this in almost any instance.

I read you lemmings!

EDIT: BTW the migration process has been easier for me thanks to LASIM, so I wouldn’t be scared if I ever want/have to migrate again.

  • oolong@lemmings.world
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    I have joined several instances and all have their pros and cons, but I’ll plug the most recent one (lemmings.world) because it checked all of these boxes for me:

    • Federated with both lemmy.world and beehaw.org
    • Not federated with certain more problematic instances
    • Stable/good uptime record
    • Upvotes/downvotes, community creation and image uploads enabled
    • I liked the name
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      1 year ago

      Is it better than lemmy.zip? My main account is on lemmy.world but it’s constantly down and so I wanted to find a new server. I’m testing this one out.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t make a comparison unfortunately as I haven’t joined lemmy.zip, but it seems like a good instance to me!

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      1 year ago

      Those are some fair points, about the beehaw defederation I don’t get why they got apart from big instances, now I am seeing it on the others one in registered, something that I couldn’t do before in my lemmy.world account.