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 got into a fight in a bar, and some guy showed up, intervened, then hung out and kinda insisted I follow in my father’s footsteps. I was like, meh, but I had nothing better to do, so I signed up.
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So what makes lemmy.zip better than running your own instance? I know there’s plenty of benefits for people joining things like Lemmy World if you want a very restricted environment but what does lemmy.zip have over running your own instance?
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Cuz shit just works
Always amazing when things do that
I think people go the wrong way with instancing, I get it that people don’t want to see certain things and that is true of everyone too but we should be doing that kind of filtering as individual users only after the instance allows mostly everything to come in, excluding anything obviously bad but not automatically excluding anything political in certain ways for example.
So that’s why I choose things like peertube.wtf because it is everything minus whatever I choose not to subscribe to.
And Lemmy.zip because it is relatively open for everyone
People also go the same way with ai, trying to pin it down to specific things in its personality before you even prompt it, it should be biased towards more connectivity before you go pinning it 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++
So what’s the advantage for you with using mander.xyz over running your own instance? As you mentioned it’s great when you have your own censoring.
The other furry instance shut down. 😞
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For Lemmy I just chose a larger instance and went with it. I’ve considered moving to one more aligned with my interests though hasn’t been much reason to yet.
For Mastodon I went with Fosstodon precisely for my interests as I can better enjoy the local feed.
A good local feed is always helpful. Though I’ve resorted more to the Global as of late as run my own instances and often don’t invite to many people.
I’m using sdf half because they are part of a service I already paid for and half because I’m too lazy to make myself more accounts somewhere else.
It’s the beauty of the Fediverse we don’t need to create accounts elsewhere… well at least most of the time.
so I liked kbin a lot and it was cause of ernest and what he was doing. then when it kinda fell apart I joined a small mbin instance based on what they guy who runs it wrote which was mostly just about being very much against censorship. Then piefed came about and what im on now is kinda the main instance and honestly its about the devs again who just were passionate about making something great and really expanding capabilities and such. I use a web portal and mostly im following the features I guess with features being things that put as much control in the hands of the user as possible.
Yeah it was sad seeing Kbin fall apart, tried Mbin and it’s great but doesn’t have the same feel in some ways sadly, Maybe the project could get a heart and grow in there own direction in the future as there’s so many things they could do to become a great all around Instance but heard amazing things about Piefed and it’s on the list of Software I hope to visit and try out in the near future.
yeah mbin forked because earnest was a bit to controlling but honestly it kinda felt like a good mmo in maintenance mode. Piefed is sorta the best of both as while it certainly has some stand out hard working devs it also has a development community talking and trying to make it and taking feedback. Seriously I have not paid attention at times only to find out there were a bunch more options in the configs and im like woa.
I figured SDF were the sort of people who would consider uptime a badge of honour.
I should probably be on Hexbear but I didn’t know of its existence at the time. Very problematic, my Xibuck direct deposits keep bouncing.
.world was the biggest one. I have since switched to one that doesnt have abusive zionist mods in news and worldnews (looking at you, jordanlund), but I still come back to .world periodically when I dont see much new content on the instance I like. Mods moderating to support their own biases can ruin a site.
Gender dysphoria
It’s located in my country.
It was the first one I saw that didn’t have a “silly” name.
