I just picked lemmy.one mostly at random, but also in part because it advertised itself as well regulated but also not heavily populated and thus prone to crashing with the recent influx of reddfugees.

Seems to work okay, but I can’t create a community without admin approval and the instance also disallows downvoting, and I’m not a big fan of that at all, but I’ll give it a while longer and see.

I’m still finding it a challenge to find the balance of communities that interest me I used to have. There’s an awful lot of meta chatter about the site itself from new users that, while I understand, gets rather annoying when it takes up the whole feed. So it’s definitely an adjustment, resulting in me using it less than I did my old haunts, but in the meantime I’ve gotten a lot more reading done than I used to, so I’ve got that going for me.

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.

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.

The github page said to pick one at rasdom and not over think it.

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.

I chose lemmy.world solely on the fact it had a lot of members. Lemmy.ml was a contender too. I just wanted to jump in and check things out. Knowing (slightly)more now, I don’t think it was a bad choice.

lemmy.ml says they are overloaded, I then found beehaw but they requires signup application so I say fuck it and choose lemmy.world instead.

lemmy.world seemed reputable with a straightforward domain name, and no out-of-the-ordinary policies.

Not gonna lie. I’ve got multiple accounts across platforms. But yours seems to be responding quickly and the content is solid, so… here I am.

Knowing that Beehaw and Lemmy.ml were overloaded, I chose the next biggest one in my country at the time, which was Lemmy.one.

I joined @lemmy.world because the admin @[email protected] had a lot of experience running a large Mastodon instance, and @lemmy.ml was asking folks to go elsewhere.

I joined sh.itjust.works because I like the domain. It makes me smile 🙂

lemmy.world is more open and performant than lemmy.ml and Beehaw.

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

I chose programming.dev because i am a programmer and developer.