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I saw a youtube video that said lemmy.ml was full so you can't join. I just picked a random one that wasn't ml so I chose lemmy.world
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I picked lemmy.world because it was recommended and had a large userbase. I know Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjustwor.ks, so if you want to interact with that community, that could be a consideration against, but since the user population across all of Lemmy is currently increasing dramatically, I think everything's a bit of a moving target regardless.
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I use lemmy.ml because i found it has a large user-base. I also like programming.dev and ideally i would like to see all the posts from the one and the other instance into one :)
Mod of a subreddit I was following created an instance, its was the easiest choice
I'm on lemmy.ml because my application was ignored (or not accepted, I don't know) by the smaller instances I've applied to.
I frequently see Stux on mastodon, and I think they're a good person so I decided to choose one of their instances when choosing a Lemmy server.
Chose an instance without mandatory email account and which seemed serious
I picked Lemmy.world because I wanted a fairly large one that will likely maintain support.
It's a local one near my country :)
lemmy.ml was the only general purpose instance when I opened my account. There were only two instances back then - lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml
Others did not exist back than.
Lemmy.ca felt like a natural home as an IRL Canadian resident. I like the variety of content and the moderation seems good so far.
For some reason I couldn't join lemmy.world and few other popular instances, be it because of technical issues, load, idk. I joined sh.itjust.works because I wanted to check fediverse before I commit to host my own instance, which I probably will at some point.
Iโm a pirate ๐ดโโ ๏ธ and like the community itself, friendly and helpful.
Is there really a difference between the different servers? I just browse all (It's lemm.ee btw)
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I picked Rammy for the name and the sidebar:
Just another Lemmy instance. We've got a cool mascott though! Open to everyone.
Why trust some Big Tech corporation to host your data when some random geek can do it? All thanks to the power of the Fediverse!
Initially made an account with the instance opened after my country's subreddit made the shift, but on Jerboa trying to look at other instance content was really rough.
So I joined here since I enjoy the content, and raise the black flag every so often.
It was that or Beehaw and Beehaw happened to be down at the time.