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.

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

I joined Beehaw early on when things where a lot quieter because I liked what they were trying to do (and back then there were only like two instances, and I didn’t want to put more load on lemmy.ml).

Joined sh.itjust.works to make a community after the sysadmin just casually walked up with a huge server, which is a level of swagger I can get behind. I’ve since moved to this as my “main” account since Beehaw defederated with lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works (which sucks, but is understandable).

May move again to pawb.social at some point, although that means people will know something about me. :P

Edit: And now pawb.social has defederated with sh.itjust.works… I’m getting more and more tempted to just roll my own personal instance just for me…

Sticking with BeeHaw for their community (usually browse local only) and now Kbin for the wider fediverse. I’d use Fedia.io over kbin.social (to put less strain on Kbin.social) but fedia.io isn’t federating perfectly yet and seems to have image issues. I’m sure @Jerry will have it running smooth soon enough and I’ll probably migrate my Kbin/fediverse-wide browsing there.

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

I prefer kbin’s UI to the other federated servers I’ve tried. Beehaw is probably #2 for me, and it seems like a really nice community. Mastodon.social is also cool but it’s a lot more twitter-like which I have a hard time getting used to.

Knowing that Beehaw and Lemmy.ml were overloaded, I chose the next biggest one in my country at the time, which was Lemmy.one.

I read two things about the fediverse and immediately hopped over here to make an account. Though I had no idea what I was doing, like no idea. Kbin was the first name that popped up and I signed up for it.

Again, no idea what I was doing. Once I did sort of figure out the fediverse I also signed up for Lemmy but I didn’t seem to like it as much as Kbin so, I’m sticking here.

I initially used reddthat.com because I’ve already tried 5 different instances and the sign up doesnt work. Then I remembered about the piracy community, so i switched over to lemmy.dbzer0.com, a pirate heaven. Feels like home. 😎🏴‍☠️

I joined sh.itjust.works because I like the domain. It makes me smile 🙂

I’m on Beehaw because there are no downvote button

The github page said to pick one at rasdom and not over think it.

I joined lemmy.ml because the join-lemmy site gave me extremely little to go on. It was a coin toss between this and beehaw.org once I realized how few instances were established and not right-wing.

That was only 2 weeks ago and already I’ve seen the site force 2 server upgrades, even as the admins have strongly encouraged new users to join elsewhere to prevent centralization.

The instance list desperately needs a few columns added, including whether new signups are encouraged or discouraged.

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

I joined slrpnk earlier in the year when I was excited about having installed my own home powerplant.