The shark, mostly.

Also because I'm on their Calckey instance too.

And this:

I saw blahaj and I was sold

I'm Canadian eh

It's the most based one.

I'm the admin. Why? Because I enjoy doing, it's in the spirit of decentralisation, and I didn't want to risk being part of an instance that defederates from leftist instances like Lemmygrad or Hexbear.

The server is hosted in my country, the TLD belongs to my country and the current admins seem chill and dedicated to make it work. Hopefully that's the recipe to it's longevity.

Once they add some donation method I'll gladly donate and if they need help I'll gladly offer my technical knowledge.

I'd rather comrades than liberals where my home instance is concerned; but I didn't have a temperature gauge for what hexbear posted like. Might make a hexbear alt in case something happens to the grad, tho; they're good folks so far.

I'm a scientist so I joined the instance that seemed to match my interests the best. I like browsing Local and seeing all the other science posts as well

I mean I joined it 3 years ago because I followed r/cth from reddit and for a while it was pretty much the only active instance

Because only lemmy.ml was popular 2 years ago.

German Feddit thats it

I built my own 😁

When the reddit went bad I started looking for anti-corporate communities that would migrate.

r/cyberpunk was the first place I checked, but there was no discussion about migrating at all there. r/selfhosted was another obvious idea but people there seemed very reluctant as well.

The only sub that pointed to some clear migration path was r/piracy. I really appreciate the integrity of dbzer0 in this situation.

I started on Beehaw but created a second account on lemmy.world since I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing any content. Once the slowdowns started I took a deeper dive into different instances and saw there was one centered around music and production and this would fit me best. I still use all three but I still think this will be home for me.

I googled about lemmy, found a blog post to introduce the whole concept, they linked an instance recommendation thing based on (if I understood correctly) the uptime, (de)federation and user count of the instance, and I just clicked one of the suggestions. So many posts claimed that it doesn't make a great difference that I eventually decided to toss my overoptimisation habit and take what was suggested to me.

But I'm still learning my way around here, who knows if this will stay my forever home.

IDK I just kinda ended up here. The domain is easy to memorize, I guess.

(Edit: And it never goes down cause no one uses it.)

I didn't want to have my stuff out of my control so I made my own instance.

Found some power tripping mods in some instances, lemmy.ml seems fairly neutral.

I like science and Mander has a lot of neat science communities. I also keep a back up account for Lemmy.world.

Yarr 🏴‍☠️

I was told, by someone I know in a local Discord, that it was a reddit replacement for Midwest leftists. At the time I didn't know what Lemmy was. Now that I'm using it in place of reddit, it's performing very well. I like our local instance a lot. I am tempted to move to Startrek.website though, just because I'm a huge nerd