Randomly came across mine. Was gunna join a larger instance just for testing, but it was right as the big Reddit rush was happening and my signups kept failing.

So I went with this one.

SDF has been around since the 1980's. It is one of the most historically trustworthy institutions on the Internet.

I've been an SDF member since 2001.

So it just made sense to use my community's instance of Lemmy, since I also use their Pixelfed and Mastodon.

I tend to hang in indie game development subreddits and didn't want to have to deal with confrontational trolls on a regular basis, so programming.dev felt like a relatively safe choice since it's neither a super large server or a general-purpose one. I just wanna make lil' games and have little patience for those lacking in empathy and maturity.

I chose beehaw. I chose wrong. So now I'm on lemmy.world and nothing was lost 😎

lemmy.world is more open and performant than lemmy.ml and Beehaw.

I actually made my home in the one hosting a previous reddit community I was fond of, just choose one u like.

Joined sh.itjust.works since it's located in North America, has open registration, and the admin sounds like he knows what he's doing running a server. I've stayed 'cause it's been stable and I like the admin's vibe. It and lemmy.world seem to have become the main large "general purpose" instances since they both have open registration.

I also have an account on kbin that I'm not using much at the moment. I think that site has lots of future potential, though.

I picked my regional one (technically also better for latency)

I chose kbin, loved the integration with mastodon

lemmy.ml says they are overloaded, I then found beehaw but they requires signup application so I say fuck it and choose lemmy.world instead.

I joined mander.xyz because it has a central theme around the natural sciences. It could possibly include STEM content as well; there is an ongoing discussion about it. The admin(s) are present and very responsive.

For anyone with a love of science and/or nature I recommend it highly as a home instance of Lemmy.

I chose programming.dev because i am a programmer and developer.

Was looking for a furry one, and pawb.social seemed to be well-run (since it was related to a couple of decently-sized Mastodon servers) and was generic enough (and not NSFW focused). There also seemed to be a decent number of technical people there as well (in fact, one of the Mastodon instances is furry.engineer), so it matched up with my other interests as well. I considered lemmyrs.org, but ended up not choosing it.

Lemmy.world: because it was the top result on Google and I neither knew about the other servers nor remembered my experiences with Mastodon.

Probably going to stay here anyway.

Mostly out of laziness

Kbin because it was the first one that actually let me register and didn't freeze

This was linked on some post about alternatives to that other site I want to stop using. And honestly I'm quite confused on the "it doesn't matter/it does matter" so I'm just rolling with it and not trying to worry about it.

I chose lemmy.world solely on the fact it had a lot of members. Lemmy.ml was a contender too. I just wanted to jump in and check things out. Knowing (slightly)more now, I don't think it was a bad choice.

feddit.dk. I wanted a regional instance as my home instance, because they tend to be chill with controlled growth, while also having native language discussions. My country didn't have a Lemmy instance at the time, so I picked the closest option. I love Denmark and they don't seem too annoyed by my presence (yet). Thanks for having me 🫶🏻 🇩🇰

I went with lemmy.ca because I figured it'd put me in proximity to Canadian Political discourse.

I chose lemmy.world after lemmy.ml closed their registration. Just glad I made my account somewhere.

Not gonna lie. I've got multiple accounts across platforms. But yours seems to be responding quickly and the content is solid, so... here I am.

I joined @lemmy.world because the admin @[email protected] had a lot of experience running a large Mastodon instance, and @lemmy.ml was asking folks to go elsewhere.

I'm on Beehaw because there are no downvote button