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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My girlfriend
Your girlfriend is on the Instance or created the instance?
She is on it
Tee hee, funni name.
[+based in Canada]
It would be weird to host an instance without using it…
Cuz shit just works
Always amazing when things do that
I didn’t give a shit
My account on the old nsfw stopped working because apparently someone shit the bed or stopped doing something or whatever
It’s not something that I care about, so I just did whatever
I have no idea what instance I’m on
I don’t even know what instances are, or what difference it makes
You know, I actually love reading this. People complain a lot about how complicated the fediverse/lemmy/whatever is and they cannot even sign up, yada yada. And yet here you are, not giving a damn about it all and still you manages to make an account and you are here. Kudos to you!
You are on lemmy.world
You can see the instance others are on by the @ after their name. If they don’t have one, they are local to you.
I think that it depends on how you access lemmy. Iirc, voyager and some others allow you to toggle user instances (at least for comments)
That sounds odd if that is an option. My doesn’t show instances if it’s the same as mine. However, since this is all federated, you can have the same username as someone else from another instance. If it doesn’t show instances then that could be confusing at best, if not used maliciously.
It’s not really locked or kept from us. We can just choose it to visually declutter.
I don’t really care what instance someone is from. If I need to know, I can just tap their name.
I don’t really care what instance they’re from, but I do care who they are. It’s like if we just went by our first names here, there would be so much confusion with common first names. You’d need to at least use their last name to know if they’re the same person or not. With federation, you can have the same name as someone else on a different instance. I don’t really care where they’re from usually, but it is important for identification.
In my opinion, this is less declutter and more obfuscation. There’s potentially important information that isn’t being shown. Often it isn’t an issue, but sometimes it is.
Yeah, also when you click on an account you see the full name and when commenting.
maintainer is from my country, rules are good and reasonable, nice local content, no local drama
I made accounts on a few instances, but I stuck with this one (and eventually joined the team) for the same reasons
That’s a good combo, especially local content. Do you ever find the local content gets lost?
i dont know, i dont pay that much attention to stuff like that so i’m not 100% sure about the drama part either, but i dont recall ever being annoyed by such things which is good enough for me. Its not extremely huge instance, around 5k users and 200 posts/ day. I think that helps too. Oh, i forgot to mention that I like admins here too, they are nice people.
I’m a trekkie, so startrek.website it was.
Ooh, I might switch.
Welcome! Where no Lemming has gone before! 🖖
Very small blocked list and doesn’t block NSFW. Users should make their own choices. Also awesome stats every month.
This is probably the first sharkey post I see on lemmy. It looks really good, nice.
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NSFW is a very generic tag. I usually browse subscribed so porn popping up is not a problem. I still want to see NSFW-tagged footage from conflicts or the occasional mild NSFW art. Photos are blurred by default so it’s not like someone will see it by accident.
Also, your client probably has an option to display NSFW posts. I don’t see any reason for an instance admin to do so.
I heard people I respect talk about it in ways I enjoyed :)
The public feed, rules, etc. also looked like a good match for me. And I’m absolutely grateful to be able to post from here!
After reaching out and proving I was human, the admins agreed to activate my account manually so I didn’t have to enter a valid email address.
HALT! Surprise mandatory sock inspection!
Best I can do at the moment
Still wearing my caterpillarsThis will suffice. Carry on! :)
That’s such a out of the way thing the admins done for you. It seems like sh.itjust.works is a fairly decent place for Lemmy users to go from what I’ve seen so far.
Well, it was simple, as my previous user, neidu2, had a long history of posts/comments, most of which I believe aren’t that trashy. Or maybe the perfect level of trashy for SJW, idk.
So what made you pick the same instance and username (+1)? Would it not have been okay to stay on the same account?
I instance hopped for a while, just to test things out, really. Feddit.nl is alright, except people kept assuming I was dutch (although, I’ve been called worse things)
Same here. lemm.ee refugee, wanted something similar in regards to federation policy and admin vibe.
In comparison, lemmy.today is a bit slower, but I’ll take slow and extant over extinct any day.
I am a programmer.
Same. Well, was. Still at heart.
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)
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.
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.
Yeah if something has like “Hey I’m a terrible person.net” yeah get rid of them.
With the hexbear that kinda sucks, by the sounds of it they have a lot of traffic and well keeping the system from flooding others is great it kinda needs some work if you are getting that much traffic from one instance.
With Hexbear, it wasn’t just traffic. It was straight up harassment. They were constantly calling our users Nazis, bigots, imperialists, etc. for no reason
Its name.
Gender dysphoria
