Ask Lemmy

I'm using sdf half because they are part of a service I already paid for and half because I'm too lazy to make myself more accounts somewhere else.

I chose from the general purpose instances because I don’t know enough about or align myself closely with the more niche instances. The stability of the instances and number of instances it blocked/was blocked by was also a factor, since I wanted a neutral experience - here’s where I found that data.

After lemm.ee shut down, I wanted to try PieFed, and the name piefed.world made me imagine a world fed with pie. Thought that was cute.

It was the first one I saw that didn't have a "silly" name.

My girlfriend

pawb.social because furries (kbin.social was discontinued i think so i had to leave there)

moved my mastodon account to furry.engineer because it was run by the pawb.social team. also i'd never seen a .engineer domain before lol.

and i have an account at waf.moe because i like how it looks and wafrn is different and cool. there's also custom css on profiles.

Just whatever’s most popular in English. So lemmy.world. And lemmy.ca because I’m Canadian. Any suggestions from others?

I’m hosting my own, I don’t wanna have to rely on someone else to do a good job for me

so I liked kbin a lot and it was cause of ernest and what he was doing. then when it kinda fell apart I joined a small mbin instance based on what they guy who runs it wrote which was mostly just about being very much against censorship. Then piefed came about and what im on now is kinda the main instance and honestly its about the devs again who just were passionate about making something great and really expanding capabilities and such. I use a web portal and mostly im following the features I guess with features being things that put as much control in the hands of the user as possible.

I just picked the biggest one this time. I've had 3 others shut down on me since I've been using Lemmy.

I tried out Lemmy.ml for a while but then I kept getting accused of being a tankie, so I gave up. Piefed showed up in my reddit feed and feddit.online was the first one I saw.

I think people go the wrong way with instancing, I get it that people don't want to see certain things and that is true of everyone too but we should be doing that kind of filtering as individual users only after the instance allows mostly everything to come in, excluding anything obviously bad but not automatically excluding anything political in certain ways for example.

So that's why I choose things like peertube.wtf because it is everything minus whatever I choose not to subscribe to.

And Lemmy.zip because it is relatively open for everyone

People also go the same way with ai, trying to pin it down to specific things in its personality before you even prompt it, it should be biased towards more connectivity before you go pinning it down.

lemmy.zip has so far been chill. Lemmy world is in practice run by a small group of overbearing mods that remove posts they personally don't like as opposed to just letting the community decide, even when no community rules have been broken. They also defederate and block other instances aggressively. I don't like my instance to censor things I want access to.

It worked, and was better than my previous instance.

I have problems with control and lack of choice, when my first instance started de-federating willy nilly I started growing distaste on it. To me it wasn't about what /was/ being censored, to me it was the fact that they were doing so in the first place, while doing so with very little public input. It gave really large Karen/power trip vibes and made me feel like at the end of the day, they didn't really care about the userbase.

Dutch

I made it! I'm on MULTIVERSE, the antirealist instance

Because the admin lets me post semi-random thoughts on it, plus it makes a nice space heater in the winter and background noise in the summer.

I used lemm.ee bc of their defederation policy. When it died, I chose mander.xyz for the same reason.

Well the german feddit.de stopped working where I initially was after the reddit exodus thing. Feddit.org became the best successor. They have a sensible block list and a lot of german and european communities so I like it here. And I think the mod team is doing a pretty good job

Kbin went down so I choose the biggest one to not have to deal with it going down

wetdry.world is an awesome name and fun instance.