What made you choose your Fediverse Instance?
Why did you choose your Fediverse Instance, does it have a bigger meaning than it was a bigger instance or was it for a certain reason? Did you have to be on your instance you chose?
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I’m hosting my own, I don’t wanna have to rely on someone else to do a good job for me
I was looking over instances sorted by uptime, saw one that had high uptime, a lot of users, and a literal promise that shit will just work in its name. I did a bit of scoping to see that it was easy to view communities across all instances from SJW and figured, fuck it, seems like as good a choice as any.
I just picked the biggest one this time. I’ve had 3 others shut down on me since I’ve been using Lemmy.
I picked one at random. Then I quickly realised .ml is nuts so I picked a different random one. How do I feel about about my instance? No strong feelings one way or the other. It’s ok I guess
I wanted a place for the digital nomad and travel niche, so I made it. I’m hoping to have resources like maps, tips, and other things like blogs
check out the communities https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/communities?home_select=local
there’s also [pixelfed](https://pixel/ fed.keyboardvagabobd.com) and mastodon, though it’s been a bit harder to get them as full with content
It’s located in my country.
Gender dysphoria
The other furry instance shut down. 😞
i chose mander.xyz because they do not de-federate or block any instances (other than threads) - I would like the opportunity to do my own censoring. That said, it is a great instance with good up time and hosted communities. Science FTW. A++
Blåhaj.
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.
It would be weird to host an instance without using it…
It was the first one I saw that didn’t have a “silly” name.
Dring the Reddit Migration, this was the first one I heard about, so I picked it. Haven’t been bothered to change it since.
Do you feel you will change in the future?
I know there’s been an okay amount of people that have said about how they moved from Lemmy World due to moderation over reach along with often being de-federated from other instances on bias’ (I have no evidence of this, just comments from others to this post)
Probably not, unless something major happens.
Cuz shit just works
Always amazing when things do that
