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...I made it xD

Our community always cared a lot about decentralization, so naturally we had to have our own instance, even before the reddit api exodus. It only made sense to use the instance of the community I vibe with. Besides this, we offer:

• closed signup to limit bot account creation, you need either manual verification or a signup fee for anonymous users
• high performance instance which is entirely community funded with the signup fees + anonymous donations
• unlimited access to the fediverse, there's no de-federation unless required by law

Honestly, because of my interest, as you can tell from my instance's name and purpose. It's the first furry instance I see and also the most popular one, that's the initial reason.

I joined lemmy.ml because 1 year ago (yes I'm old I know) it was the biggest and most active instance, also it was, very importantly, the most federated with others I believe, the other candidate was lemmygrad but I feared (and that fear came true) fediblocks and defederations

My main activity on Reddit is wetshaving related. A cool user there started this instance so I joined it. We've set it up as similarly to the subreddit as possible as far as rules and organization goes.

That's a cool tool that you linked to! Instances will undoubtedly come and go over the years, and it's good to know something like that exists.

I found one for my regional area because I went looking for my state community, and I didn’t know how to join it from .world. Now that we’re spreading out, I’m using it as my main. I also use Kbin quite frequently too, tho, but they don’t have an iOS app yet so not as much.

Beehaw defederated lemmy.world, but has the best news. I didn’t want to join beehaw, and have family from Canada so…. ca it is

I'm on feddit.it because it's an Italian-speaking instance, so I can read local posts from all kinds of subjects in my own language

Started with a really small instance, didn't really have a whole lot of content in All and struggled to find communities, so I joined lemmy.world, which got me a lot more content and communities, but now it's constantly having issues. So I'm trying this instance (as an alt for now) because there is a federation helper running on it. I'm honestly not sure which instance I will stick with long-term.

The coolest name.

I initially chose vlemmy.net because it seemed big enough but not too big, and didn’t de/federate for non legal reasons (I can choose what I want to see myself).

Unfortunately it went down, so I moved to lemm.ee which seemed pretty similar but bigger so hopefully it will stick around longer.

I chose lemmy.world because it felt the most neutral and least controversial. I also feel like there's enough "backing" behind it and feel semi-confident that it'll stick around.

Honestly I just liked the icon and it didn't seem like a shitty place to be. A smaller instance also basically guaranteed a username I would like to use was available.

Is there any way to export saved messages and comments to a new account?

thought this domain looked cool

Well, I created the instance I'm on so it seemed like a logical choice!

I created it primarily because I am a fan of self-hosting stuff, and I also figured it would be a cool way for me to contribute to the Fediverse - even if its not really that large.

at first I saw these strange domain names and didn't really know how Lemmy works...

I saw lemmy.world, it has thr "world" ending so I was like, okay, this is a worldwide instance, this is what I need.

I was wrong, now I know, but I like World.

Because I thought it'd be interesting to try hosting one myself.

Was looking for a smaller kbin instance to help out with decentralization, saw an ad for kbin.cafe and signed up