I added an account to a few geared towards specific community types. Then I can easily switch accounts and view local.
I'm considering standing up an instance for this type of thing myself.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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I saw a local instance for new Zealanders and joined.
Ideology!
The TLD.
I picked lemmy.world because it was recommended and had a large userbase. I know Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjustwor.ks, so if you want to interact with that community, that could be a consideration against, but since the user population across all of Lemmy is currently increasing dramatically, I think everything's a bit of a moving target regardless.
lemmy.world because it was top recommended. In the future I might change to either host my own or use my wife's ex-husband's instance.
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
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I signed up with beehaw first, but realized that they were defederated from lemmygrad, which I wanted access to. As I became more acquainted with lemmy and started looking into the "flavors" of the different instances, I joined lemmy.ml because they are unapologetic communists and won't defederate with lemmygrad.
As an aside, it's fucking insane to me that lemmygrad is so controversial yet there's crickets about exploding-heads and people are happy to be on instances that don't block them. Cool
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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.
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.
Ideology π.
Heard lemmy.ml and lemmy.world were being overwhelmed.
Blahaj zone is explicitly and deliberately queer friendly, and a bit more lenient than beehaw
Ideology π
I frequently see Stux on mastodon, and I think they're a good person so I decided to choose one of their instances when choosing a Lemmy server.
It was nearby geographically and the guy running it seemed to know what he was doing from a technical aspect.
β’Lemmy.ml - Signed up here first, was recommended to it as a general place to sign up to
β’Lemmy.blahaj.zone - Egg memes, blΓ₯haj memes, just memes
β’Lemmy.world - Handy for extra world news communities
β’Lemmynsfw.com - Do I need to explain. This is under a different name, but I've kinda used that name over on the other place and I'm slowly bringing my content over (plus new stuff)
I only use one and four regularly
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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)
One of the few only lgbt friendly servers
Are many other servers proactively anti-lgbt?
Is there really a difference between the different servers? I just browse all (It's lemm.ee btw)
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I've got accounts on 4 different instances just to see what things are like. Sometimes I want to see all sorts of posts, sometimes I want a feed of just LGBT-positive stuff, sometimes I just want to get off, different accounts on different instances for different things :)
Iβm a pirate π΄ββ οΈ and like the community itself, friendly and helpful.
Others did not exist back than.
It federates with the servers that have some stuff I want access to on them, and it also has rules against being a huge douche. And it's supported by Jerboa.
That's pretty much it. Mix of convenience and what passes for my moral scruples.
I found beehaw first, so I started there but then discovered that the admins manage the community creation there. So I made a new account on lemmy.world to mod that, and most browsed with my beehaw account. But then beehaw needed to de-federate from lemmy.world, so I made a vLemmy and lemmy.one accounts so I could interact with both beehaw and lemmy.world.
tl;dr As someone else mentioned, finding a smaller, low-profile instance to have your home account but interacting with other instances seems to be the best approach