Following the spirit of spreading across the Fediverse (and because my main instance is down so many times, because diverse reasons) I’m intrigued about the joining instance process, because I honestly don’t know what criteria to have in order to join another one if I ever want to do it.
That made me curious of how you decided to join?
I firstly join to lemmy.fmhy.ml thanks to Spez and a Reddit post from FMHY subreddit, then the tragedy occurred, then I joined to lemmy.world which is/was my main one because I pictured it like a good home, then lemmy.fmhy.net revived and I am with them too, but seems like they are in a bit of trouble with the server, finally now I am in lemm.ee, but only because I just wanted another backup, not because I searched for it especially (also it was mentioned in a comment about smaller instances and one user from here throw a joke to not join here because it sucks so that way the server would be more stable, so yeah, I joined).
To be clear I am not in search for yet another instance (that sounds like a good instance name to be fair), I just want to know how the deciding process is for you, is it just random? Is it because of personal tastes?
I couldn’t care less about NSFW stuff, I don’t search for it specifically, but my day won’t be ruined if I see a tit.
I like gaming, tech, Linux, SBC gaming, emulation, macOS, Android stuff etc (yeah how original) should I look for an instance dedicated to that if I ever want to join yet another one? Because I see topics like this in almost any instance.
I read you lemmings!
EDIT: BTW the migration process has been easier for me thanks to LASIM, so I wouldn’t be scared if I ever want/have to migrate again.
I’m the admin :P
Why’d you start an instance?
We started a regular fediverse instance because we wanted a space for queer and gender diverse folk to be safe, on something that wasn’t Mastodon or Mastodon derived.
Once we had that running, we spun up a lemmy instance just to check it out, and it sat there basically only used by me, until Reddit Day came along, and our userbase went from 3 to 3000 in the space of a week. So now, our lemmy instance serves the same purpose as our main instance, which is to provide a safe space for our community, but focused on lemmy/the threadiverse
It’s good to hear that even small instances benefitted from Reddit Day and not just lemmy.world
Every instance that pre-dated Reddit Day saw crazy growth during the migration.
We were around long before lemmy.world, and despite the small userbase, we had a couple of popular (at the time) communities used by the rest of the lemmyverse.
It’s a good option for when you want to follow every instance and not be beholden to the server admin randomly de-federating an instance they don’t agree with personally (which was one one of the issues Reddit faced, mods with their own agenda)
If you run your own instance you can choose exactly what you get to interact with
Yeah this one right here. I run my own little instance, made it easy to choose.
One of my favorite parts of lemmy has been seeing what niche servers users come in from. The interconnectivity makes it feel like a universe of forums.
The smaller community sizes adds to that forum-vibe, I think.
Irreverent commentary, staunchly pro LGBT community, correct opinions
correct opinions
Smh fucking liberal
Happy Molotov day
Best emojis
Im a communist
I am also a communist but I don’t want to be on a widely defederated server.
that’s totally valid! I spend 95% of my time on lemmygrad (and now hexbear) comms anyways, so it doesn’t really matter to me other than being annoying when I have to make sure I’m not wasting my time commenting something to a user of a defederated instance
Back in the day, there was an instance called GTIO where 80% of the posts were from two instances that had later defederated from each other (lemmy.ml and Wolfballs). That one was a pain, you just had to make an alt to really use it.
I’m the admin of mine and also like books and writing
Where is yours based? Like what country and what time zone, if applicable?
US VPS & eastern standard time
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I was on lemmygrad at first but then they banned me for being a liberal so now I’m on hexbear
banned me for being a liberal
Explains why they’ve completely ignored my registration request, only wanted to learn more about socialism over there since my instance is defederated from them. Oh well 🤷♂️
Youre better off. Lemmygrad is like 90% Russian propagandists. Dudes think editing a commercial to whiten skin tone is the same as genociding children.
Reminds me of late stage 4chan and r/the_donald
As a Hexbear user, I personally get paychecks from both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for every comment. It’s a pretty sweet gig ngl.
I love the wumao weekend bonus, earn five mao Fridays, six mao Saturdays and seven mao Sundays. It’s the icing on the posting cake.
Xi ate all my food with a giant spoon. It’s true because the TV told me so. They are telling the truth just like they told the truth about MKUltra and Vietnam and those WMDs and-
Have you tried reading the thread? We were talking about lemmygrad.
But I’ve been seeing yall dipshits on hexbear brigaiding and doxxing people for the tamest shit so I wouldn’t be surprised to see yall far behind.
ok I’ll bite. Who’s been brigaded, or doxxed, via hexbear? Our own users?
This is the funniest shit I’ve seen all day, thank you lmao
Then you read boring shit.
Don’t be so hard on yourself
I’m rubber ur glue
If I’m glue does that mean we’re stuck like this now?
Shit
I fucking love comments like this from people who have no clue that hexbear is mostly ideologically alligned with lemmygrad and then get dunked on for it. Here’s a quote for you from a super scary man named Mao that you should learn to take to heart so you don’t get dunked on like this (emphasis mine):
I. NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK
Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?
It won’t do!
It won’t do!
You must investigate!
You must not talk nonsense!
- Mao Zedong, Oppose Book Worship
So? I call out hexbear for being shitty in its own way too.
Just because one site is clearly a Russian psy-op doesn’t mean the people who fell for the psy-op are in the same group.
Its funny you think there is some nuance im missing, but as is typical for the group in here triggered by my callout, you can’t actually state the problem.
You have to shit on some theoretical point that nobody made.
sure thing, you definitely made that comment knowing what hexbear was. If you thought hexbear was really that shitty, you wouldn’t have said it’s better to be on there than on lemmygrad??? They literally post more news about the conflict than lemmygrad does, absolutely baffling behavior to say that lemmygrad is the psyop and not hexbear (it’s delusional to say it’s a psyop either way)
You could just read the older comments where I discussed hexbear?
Cope dumbass.
It takes all of 10 minutes to open up lemmygrad, see disinformation campaigns such as titling a sub Ukraine war news then trying to fill it with news on NATO being the cause of the war.
I did, you posted in their games comm, made that dumbass response in this thread, started getting shit on, then you started shitting on hexbear, pretty clear timeline of events for me
What? Lol you have a whole headcannon to lean on as a coping mechanism
I guess if you’re just going to make shit up there is no point in further engagement
Lemmygrad is like 90% Russian propagandist
My brother in christ Hexbear had a wall of text statement on the war in Ukraine in anticipation of federation
His point is that Hexbear and Lemmygrad have the same stance on Ukraine:
NATO caused it by arming the nazis during the civil war and making US aid contingent on including the far right in gov’t (instead of contingent on purging the nazis from the gov’t and army), and then by continuing to arm them while they violated Minsk II and did literal pogroms. Western Ukrainian nazis were shelling eastern Ukraine right until the day of the invasion.
Every weapon we send to Ukraine is a bad day for someone, mostly civilians. Anything except ending western participation in the war as quickly as possible is sacrificing more blood of the workers for the profits of the bourgeoisie.
So let’s just take all of this as a given.
How does this justify the genocide Russia is enacting on the people of Ukraine?
And again, I said this before in 2 separate comments but I’ll say it here as well.
It’s one thing to be an individual who has read and internalized Russian psyop content, it is entirely different to be a bad faith propoganda agent organized by the state.
The people I’ve engaged from hexbear are typically dipshit shitposters at worse, lemmygrad is clearly different.
If you spent any time checking out the messaging on 4chan and r/the_donald or any of the other Russian psyop sites, you pick up on some habits.
The most obvious example in the current conversation is lemmygrad hosting a sub called Ukraine war news that has 0 news on active events in Ukraine. Every post is meant to shape your thoughts using bad faith information presentation.
You wrote out your legitimate thoughts and included all details you find viable to discuss. These users know they are participating in bad faith and do so intentionally.
Its why some people get a respectfully written response from me while others are called coping dipshits.
How does this justify the genocide Russia is enacting on the people of Ukraine?
The US is not preventing a genocide, it is facilitating one. The whole succession thing was triggered by the Ukrainian state banning the Russian language and Azov & co doing wide-spread organized violence against Russian minorities, backed by the state, in Eastern Ukraine.
all that other shit you wrote
get over yourself.
The most obvious example in the current conversation is lemmygrad hosting a sub called Ukraine war news that has 0 news on active events in Ukraine.
The community became more general about NATO activities in general because we changed the display name to “Death to NATO” which you would know if you visited !ukraine_war_news@lemmygrad.ml.
With all due respect, some of your comments are giving off the vibe that you would have accused anyone who wanted to stop the Vietnam War as being Russian propagandists.
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Weird, I didn’t see a single pro trans post, I only saw hateposting
I did see the typical Russian disinformation headlines that linked to garbage.
Strange toggle ypu made there. I guess being pro trans for 1 post justifies endless hatred and violence to all other groups amiright?
And being pro trans shouldn’t be a bragging point, that’s called bare minimum lol
Weird you’re so defensive about the instance that’s full of Kremlin agents lmao
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These Russian bots are getting a snarky personality now lol
beware of their disinformatskya
Nice one!
Because we have a dope ass bear
aww I want a bear
Join us, we have the best bear
We got em
we also have
in every possible pride flag 
and more
Come for the dirt bag leftism, stay for the aggressive anti-bigotry initiatives and correct takes.
I started with Lemmy.world but then moved to Lemmy.nz because it was faster.
Fair enough.
I’m on both, but using memmy on iOS I really don’t even notice which instance I’m on anymore. It takes me back to using Apollo
I followed the Daystrom Institute community from reddit to startrek.website.
I have a few different accounts. One on lemmy.world, but that’s been down so much, I decided I needed a backup, and quite frankly, the fact that there’s an entire Trek instance made my choice of a backup a no-brainer.
Even though I was on Reddit for 9 years, I never frequented r/startrek until this year and saw the mod posts about starting a fresh Lemmy instance. Being a member of the Federation in the Fediverse just really appealed to my geek brain.
I’ve been on Hexbear the entire time. It’s inclusive, yet has zero tolerance for reactionary attitudes.
Also since federation we actually have been complaining the quality of posts we see have gone down. You all lack an energy that made r/cth and hexbear such a breath of fresh air.
I still remember the sub
Back in my day we didn’t have these, “bears”.
shouldn’t have stopped at Harper’s FerryHe may have been stopped at Harper’s Ferry, but his soul goes marching on
I’m so thankful I was able to lifeboat during the Discord Interregnum and land safely on these shores
Hard same
I’m not, because the Discord drama sucked
Came to Hexbear because the CTH subreddit was kill and I really hate trying to follow a super active Discord, then TC69 lead the purge of the rightists and it became so good that basically no other website scratches my social media itch anymore. Reddit’s still useful since there’s so much archived content on places like /r/linux but that’s the only reason I go there anymore, Lemmy as a whole seems pretty cool though.
Piracy 🏴☠️
I was on r/chapotraphouse before we got banned from Reddit. I joined chapo.chat after it was made by old r/cth users, and chacha became hexbear.net like maybe a year later.
moved there from lemmy.world because of downtime and also unclear, sloppy defederation policies. i’ve never seen a clear explanation why it took a month to defederate exploding heads (allowing their userbase to grow 3x) and week for rammy site, but hexbear gets defederated “preemptively”. ???
also now i see beehaw content which is something i didn’t expected, but it’s cool
