It's at the top of the list on join-lemmy.org's popular server list, next to lemmy.world and beehaw.org, of course new users will sign up on the more popular ones. Plus, a few posts on reddit called out these three which set everything in motion.
Once folks start to understand how it works, they might start to sign up on other ones, for a "cooler handle @ address" for their user, or register a domain and start their own instance like I did.
Anyway, welcome aboard, right?
Well, hello from feddit.de! Since I'm a german user I thought it'd be only logical to register on a german instance. While new registrations are semi-locked, the criteria for being let in are quite easy to pass and they are mostly in place to filter out spam. Got my account approved right on the next day
New feddit.de user reporting in
Ze Germans seem to have their own monopolistic instance
feddit.it ๐โโ๏ธ
That looks like a missed opportunity to me not using fedd.it :-)
I definitely didnt pick sh.itjust.works for the funny name, naaaaaaaaah
Join us over in beehaw, it's super chill and welcoming
I created my account at sh.itjust.works but I don't fully understand Lemmy yet. Finding communities seems confusing.
proudly hailing from NOT lemmy.ml ๐ค
Yeah I have been finding it hard to wrap my head around this federation part.
lemm.ee gang
I just hope it lasts, worst thing would be if people just went back to reddit
I'm so sorry, I haven't seen the pinned post before registering. Maybe add notice to registration page?
I think people naturally tend toward the servers of the people that started the project and also the servers that have the most people on them. As the federated technology continues to smooth out I think more people might be more comfortable spreading out to other servers.
Personally I started out on the Beehaw server but they had some rules I didn't like so then I found another server.
