kbin has been the best community so far that I've found. I plan to stick around here for awhile. I've also got an account on lemmy.ca that I was using mainly for the hockey community. Now that kbin is able to access the wider fediverse I am not sure how much longer I'll keep using that account.
Seriously, this. I tried for days to register on Lemmy. One day I was mid-registration and the button was just spinning, doing nothing, so I came over to kbin, registered and started using the site. Lemmy never stopped spinning. No thanks.
Though I suspect that means that either the clients are gonna start visibly stuffing instance names at the end of the username -- maybe some abbreviated form of instance name -- or there's gonna have to be some other effort to stop users from pretending to be other users and creating problems.
You can distinguish between users by their user icon, but that's user-selected, not assigned by the server, so a malicious user could just clone another's.
It was doing the same thing for me but I checked my email and there was a verification, once I completed it my registration went through. It didn't actually tell me it was sending an email which is probably a flaw but it seems that's the missing piece.
I didn't want to be on the "main" instance, kinda defeats the point of federation.
While they were testing UI 0.17 on the instance it totally broke the site for me on both my phone and PC, I couldn't click anything for nearly a week.
So I settled on lemm.ee as it was a general purpose instance that wasn't too big, and the admin is committed to staying around. And of course I was actually able to click on things. It's nice here!
I chose mine because, or rather, I decided to run mine because I'd like to do my part in providing a space on the fediverse for Portuguese folk and the Portuguese language. We're generally a small group, so it felt almost like a no-brainer to kickstart a community on Lemmy.
i moved over to lemmy.world after i heard somewhere that lemmy.ml was run by a tankie and had been censoring proof of the tiananmen square massacre. idk if it's true or not, but I didn't wanna take any chances.
Beehaw was my first, when I joined it was 3rd or 4th most users, but had just been upgraded (per a pinned post) and had a cool community vibe. This was like a few days pre protest I think?
Lemmy.one got made on the first day of the mass Exodus, and beehaw was STRUGGLING. I knew the mods were a small team and the server wasnt able to keep up so I went to a less populated instance.
Reddthat.com is new and I haven't used it yet, I went there because it seemed middle of the pack, and I wanted to have an account where I create a community.
And then lemmynsfw is for...actually, I miscounted I only have three accounts.
I was told it was better for load balancing if we didn't all use the same one. So I just looked for one that had easy signups and didn't seem overeager to block stuff. Apparently, some from this instance come form /r/china. I'm not, but I do drink coffee. Anyway, I think it's working out so far; better than reddit anyway.
@wumpus@minorsecond Good for availability. Good for redundancy. Largely reduces and or eliminates opportunities for profiteering. Makes individuals more like first class citizens in the web. Long live decentralization and federation.
lemm.ee said it was newcomer-friendly and I was a newcomer so bingo bango there I went. I suppose I can always join a different instance if I need to but I'm still just getting a grip on this place so I'm good for now.
I took one look at lemmy and was put off from it (no offense). I later stumbled upon kbin and liked kbin for kbin. and the first few days i was here federation was basically entirely offline. helped really get a feel for things. The ui is cozy and it's more or less what I'd want from social media. the various lemmy instances are kinda.... not great in terms of the ui.
as for why kbin.social in particular... it's the biggest kbin instance and the "main" one. I also made a fedia.io account but I don't use it.
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