Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad as well as tech.de (or something similar) I might host myself sometime later. I was on mastodont a while before , went back and tired of proprietary again. This time I am thoroughly fed up and will stay.

For me defederation is good. I see the problem with filterbubbles but I’m to old for this shit. I rather be in my bubble.

I’m the admin :p

1. Googled “Lemmy” to see what it even is
2. “wtf is an instance”
3. Checked some of the most used instances. At this point I wasn’t sure if it matters much, but I just figured it’s best to just pick a popular instance.
4. found lemmy.world, and the description goes “The World’s Internet Frontpage - Lemmy.world is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use.”
5. “sounds good enough”, created account

I chose lemm.ee because:

1. Its admin @sunaurus@lemm.ee has been working hard at improving the instance’s performance and fixing issues.
2. It has been relatively smooth and performant since the infrastructure upgrade.
3. The domain name is cleverly satisfying.

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.

When I got started on Lemmy, there were only a handful of instances and they were all general-purpose. I went and made my own so that it was exactly what I wanted.

These days, I’d probably use a list like this and choose an instance that isn’t too big with a cool domain name: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances

… Because I own it

I decided I felt better selfhosting it rather than being on anyone else’s instance

I joined Lemmy a few weeks ago when a lot of other reddit refugees were making the switch. A lot of the servers were overloaded, so I just went ahead and hosted my own. My instance is never overloaded because I’m the only user, and because Lemmy is federated I can subscribe to communities on any instance I want.

lemm.ee because of speed and latest version of Lemmy. Less problems, good experience 🙂

I chose mine because it disallows NSFW on its own communities and takes a hard stance against defederation while not being defederated. I want to have more control over my feed and not be isolated.

I’m on Feddit.de because it was recommended to me by join-lemmy.org and I like to have a server that has a German speaking Focus in the local feed.

Biggest German server and good community.

Went Lemmy.world because I had no idea how any of this worked.

Gonna stick with it for now, because there isn’t really a reason to switch. In the future I might switch or host my own.

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.

I’m on lemmy.sdf.org because it’s widely federated and run by a trustworthy organization.

I’m not much of a tech bro - in fact I struggle with troubleshooting basic Linux issues. That’s why I mostly interact outside of my local instance.

I hardly engage with the techy discussion on SDF, but I appreciate the high quality user base.