• pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    3 hours ago

    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.

  • rockandsock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 hours ago

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

  • Atomic@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    5 hours ago

    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

  • Lor@mander.xyz
    3·
    11 hours ago

    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++

  • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    10 hours ago

    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 really large Karen/power trip vibes and I’m like “yea ok you do you ill go elsewhere”

  • AstroLightz@lemmy.world
    5·
    14 hours ago

    Dring the Reddit Migration, this was the first one I heard about, so I picked it. Haven’t been bothered to change it since.

    • Fedicate Project@break3.socialOP
      2·
      14 hours ago

      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)

        • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          For me the biggest difference is that it organizes different crossposts into a single unit. So if the same link is posted in several different communities you can see the comments for each post in the same comment section. Whereas on lemmy you might see duplicate posts with the same link and the comments would be scattered between them.

          Piefed also has emoji reactions (kind of like Discord) whereas lemmy just has upvotes/downvotes

            • ageedizzle@piefed.caEnglish
              1·
              4 hours ago

              Welcome to the dark side

              Note that these features aren’t always supported on every mobile app. For cross posts I recommend trying out the Mlem app. Interstellar works too for that but it’s not as nice of a user experience in my opinion. Emojis aren’t supported in any of the major apps yet (at least not that I know of) but if you’re a big emojis fan and want to see them then you can use the mobile website and it should work.

              Have fun!

    • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
      2·
      12 hours ago

      Same. But for Mastodon I went with tech.lgbt, which honestly is a way stronger overlap of my identity and interests.

  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    16 hours ago

    I migrated during Reddit’s API debacle. I picked sh.itjust.works for several reasons:

    • No email required to sign up (at the time)
    • Hosted the only NonCredibleDefense community on Lemmy (at the time)
    • Had almost no defederated instances (at the time)
    • Consistent uptime (was 99% at the time and still not far off)
    • Hosted in Canada but accepting of US citizens
    • Powered by 98% renewable energy
    • TheDude abides

    While some things have changed like defederating from more servers, it’s left up to a vote by users of the server and the vote doesn’t get proposed unless there’s a good reason (such as a server being Nazi-friendly or constantly harassing/trolling users)

    • Fedicate Project@break3.socialOP
      11·
      14 hours ago

      I find that keeping the Fediverse open to others as much as possible is a really helpful thing instead of De-Federating on the first little bad message from a user that probably got missed or is being dealt with by the system admin.

      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        The Nazi instance that got blocked literally had something adjacent to “nazi” in their url. Fairly clear decision if you ask me. This was a few months ago so I don’t recall the actual server name without digging it up.

        Then there was the Hexbear fiasco, where they decided to federate with us (apparently they have it set up for admins to opt-in to federation instead of opt-out). They ended up swarming all of our communities for 4-5 days with nonstop harassment. Then their admins decided to re-defederate before we could vote on whether to block them. Literally a “you can’t fire me, I quit!” scenario.