I joined Beehaw early on when things where a lot quieter because I liked what they were trying to do (and back then there were only like two instances, and I didn’t want to put more load on lemmy.ml).

Joined sh.itjust.works to make a community after the sysadmin just casually walked up with a huge server, which is a level of swagger I can get behind. I’ve since moved to this as my “main” account since Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (which sucks, but is understandable).

May move again to pawb.social at some point, although that means people will know something about me. :P

Edit: And now pawb.social has defederated with sh.itjust.works… I’m getting more and more tempted to just roll my own personal instance just for me…

Back in my day, the only instance that federated with all other instances was lemmy.ml 👴🏻

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

I was curious when I heard about Kbin. I like it so far

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.

I bounced back and forth between several lemmy instances and kbin.social. I feel like I gave them all a fair shot. I ended up sticking with kbin because I like the interface better, and it integrates with the fediverse better (microblog/mastodon integration). It is younger though, so it still has some more growing pains to go through, but the developer is very active, so I’m confident it’ll get there. Ultimately, it will have a much more robust feature set than lemmy, and I still won’t miss out on anything posted in a lemmy instance.

feddit.de because it was made for german potatoes like me

Kbin just because I love the interface and I love the idea of having both articles and microblogs!

My current instance has a bunch of sports communities, and typically the first thing i like to look at when i was on reddit were the sports subs. I was previously on beehaw but they kind of shut themselves off from some of other big communities so i migrated off

I did not. I ended up on lemmy.world but visiting over, which I think is a cool feature.

feddit.dk. I wanted a regional instance as my home instance, because they tend to be chill with controlled growth, while also having native language discussions. My country didn’t have a Lemmy instance at the time, so I picked the closest option. I love Denmark and they don’t seem too annoyed by my presence (yet). Thanks for having me 🫶🏻 🇩🇰

I was told it was better for load balancing if we didn’t all use the same one. So I just looked for one that had easy signups and didn’t seem overeager to block stuff. Apparently, some from this instance come form /r/china. I’m not, but I do drink coffee. Anyway, I think it’s working out so far; better than reddit anyway.

I made an account at kbin.social and just went with it. It’s all gonna be federated anyway (unless it gets defederated) and each day actually feels like it’s improving.

I joined lemmy.ml because the join-lemmy site gave me extremely little to go on. It was a coin toss between this and beehaw.org once I realized how few instances were established and not right-wing.

That was only 2 weeks ago and already I’ve seen the site force 2 server upgrades, even as the admins have strongly encouraged new users to join elsewhere to prevent centralization.

The instance list desperately needs a few columns added, including whether new signups are encouraged or discouraged.

I joined lemmy.fmhy.ml because it allowed NSFW without being focused on it and I prefer the more open approach.

I’m very happy with my choice