I’m new to Lemmy. I came across join-lemmy.org and browsed the servers by “most active.” Blåhaj stood out to me because of its cute logo. I’m a straight cis girl, but I love the LGBT community, and being an escort I’ve met many trans girls (and some gay guys) through my work, so I’ll always stand in full solidarity with them. I also noticed that the instance has downvotes disabled, which made it feel like the right place for me, lol. Curious how it went for you all.
Because I didn’t know what I was doing. I just wanted to get away from Reddit.
This is one of 3 accounts I made the first week. It was the only one that worked the whole time so I wound up using it.
And the other two instances no longer exist
I like retro things. Also I host this instance.
Shoutout for PieFed
I choose the instance hosted in a country the most reluctant to mass surveillance and collaborate withe the US
I mainly use(d) Reddit for Piracy content (Piracy, PiratedGames, Steam Deck Pirates etc). When the migrate happened, saw they made a Piracy Lemmy instance and just joined that.
I was originally on programming.dev, but they had a database issue that lasted for weeks where lots of content would never appear. Someone suggested .zip and it’s been great. There is monthly communication/state-of-the-server posts, and otherwise it just works.
.dev was fixed long ago and I still maintain an account there, but I am invested in .zip at this point.
The SDF started back in the late 80’s as a anime dial up BBS. SDF is a reference to the anime Robotech, A show released in the 80’s but that I grew up watching as a kid in the 90’s.
In the early 2000’s, I was trying to figure out this thing called Linux, I found a site that would give me access to a unix machine for free and it had a name and logo that reminded me of the anime I loved as a kid. While poking around I found that they had a fairly active message board, were willing to give me an email address, usenet access (albeit, limited), and would host small personal web site for me if I wanted. They were my primary email address through most of the 00’s before I, regrettably now, switched to gmail like everyone else.
Fast forward to 2022, and I find out that there is this thing called Lemmy and it’s supposed to be like Reddit but better. So I put up my own server… and it crashed and burned. Mainly due to my own stupidity. I failed to make backups and borked an update.
While I was playing with my own server, I found something interesting. Not only was the SDF still kicking, but they had decided to host Lemmy and Mastodon servers as well. So I signed up for both and started donating to the SDF again. Been here ever since. Good place, decent folks. I don’t see myself going anywhere else for a while.
I had to dig a bit on that page just to find what SDF stood for. This whole time I assumed it was “Software Development Fund”
The internet is a series of tubes, but unfortunately, I don’t understand plumbing
Furry. Some choices make themselves.
In all honesty, I’ve been in the fandom for years. External opinions fluctuate with the times, but if there’s one thing furries know how to do it’s build community with tech, adamantly support human rights, and be vehemently anti-establishment (EDIT: and apparently not count, I got distracted mid-sentence). A++, love being a stupid animal.
Only one that let me in (besides Lemmy NSFW)
i had an .ml account since much before the 2023 reddit exodus, but later realized some controversies related to the .ml operators and decided to move. i had heard of sdf.org before and noticed they created a fresh lemmy instance so i signed up. these days there doesn’t seem to be much maintenance done though… (at least communication wise)
I’d seen a lot of posts from blahaj’s admin, @Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, and I really liked her admin/moderating philosophy (particularly this post, which I have bookmarked it’s so good), and it was also where the big /c/196 community was. I don’t like having to deal with a whole subset of online people, and Ada does a really bangup job of banning those kind of troublesome people before I ever even see them or have to interact with them. My personal blocklist is almost empty, because Ada does such a good job of preventing me from having to interact with those people. Anyway, thanks for all the hard great work, Ada! You make my Lemmy experience so much more pleasant!
I don’t know what neopronouns are, but I agree with what they said. I agree with the commenter who said they/them is the default until corrected or you see it in their user flair.
I joined .ml because the devs are there.
Then I interacted with people, and realized that was a big mistake.
Spent some time on LBZ, but the admin is making a few too many choices for the users (I’ll block my own assholes, thanks)
So now I’m on sh.itjust.works
Same here with ml and I got banned from subs and by mods because I am just a filthy leftist and not a full on totalitarian cultist. Signed up on some different other ones. Learned some time ago that it is possible to filter everything and everyone from ml and my Fediverse experience has improved bigly.
I started out on .world; then i found dbzer0.com, which aligns a lot more with my values (i personally am a socialist who also likes the idea of communism, but in the end i am simply against concentration of power and exploitation), and then i switched over to anarchist.nexus so i could use piefed instead of lemmy itself; the last move was a consequence of the lemmy devs being shitheads, even if they create good software. I still use the dbzer0 account while on my phone, tho.
