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.

  • Elise@beehaw.org
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    Beehaw cuz I heard they had strong moderation and don’t shy away from defederation. Also bees.

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      Beehaw for basically the same reasons. I liked the low tolerance for bad faith arguments in addition to the strong moderation and defederation from the “Free speech” (free to say what?) Wild West instances. It’s a good instance for user safety and maintaining mental health.

      I’ve got a startrek.website account as backup.

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        I’ve been in one other community with the same moderation style and I think it works great 🐝

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        I only had an account on kbin for a couple weeks before I got fed up with the trolls and bad faith arguments from other instances and jumped ship to beehaw.

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      I have a few accounts, but mainly stick to Beehaw at this point. It just feels different in a good way.

      It seems to have died down now, but there seemed to be much hate for it for a week or so after the great Reddit migration. That was originally what got me to try it though.

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        Let’s say they became evil, and made their own beehaw uniforms, wouldn’t you want one just because it is bee themed?

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      1 year ago

      Hi fellow Beehaw user, I couldn’t see you in my lemmy.world account.

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        Hey, that’s curious, I haven’t posted anything nasty so far. Thanks for the update Kratoz.