I chose “.ca” because I live in Canada. I abandoned reddit because I do not live in a vassal state ruled by “The President of the United States of America” (who is most likely a pedophile). I get what a “Federation” is in the real world but I still don’t understand the “Fediverse”, more so in the recent light of the Cloudfare failure. I don’t care though, I just read and post comments for fun. I thought it interesting that the style and look (and even icon) of Lemmy was surprisingly similar to reddit. I like Lemmy better than reddit though.

I can remember the URL of sh.itjust.works

Because I didn’t know what I was doing. I just wanted to get away from Reddit.

Because the owner/maintainer is based in EU (Stux is Dutch)… literally just that. Lemmy.world being a decent size certainly helps

I also originally created an account on Kbin, gradually used it less and then the project had its fair share of issues, so I just registered a new account instead

I have floated the thoughts of selfhosting an instance, but it seemed a bit unnecessary given the forum/aggregator nature of Lemmy… In hindsight, I even closed my microblog instance (Firefish, a whole story of its own) because it was too much resource/headaches, so it was probably a good choice I never selfhosted Lemmy

This is one of 3 accounts I made the first week. It was the only one that worked the whole time so I wound up using it.

And the other two instances no longer exist

I joined .ml because the devs are there.

Then I interacted with people, and realized that was a big mistake.

Spent some time on LBZ, but the admin is making a few too many choices for the users (I’ll block my own assholes, thanks)

So now I’m on sh.itjust.works

The internet is a series of tubes, but unfortunately, I don’t understand plumbing

I’d seen a lot of posts from blahaj’s admin, @Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, and I really liked her admin/moderating philosophy (particularly this post, which I have bookmarked it’s so good), and it was also where the big /c/196 community was. I don’t like having to deal with a whole subset of online people, and Ada does a really bangup job of banning those kind of troublesome people before I ever even see them or have to interact with them. My personal blocklist is almost empty, because Ada does such a good job of preventing me from having to interact with those people. Anyway, thanks for all the hard great work, Ada! You make my Lemmy experience so much more pleasant!

sh.itjust.works cos I was hoping it would just work

I like reading the stuff posted on !futurology@futurology.today, so I made an account on that instance. Didn’t think about anything else at that point.

Blahaj is adorable and I’m bi so I liked the inclusion

Kinda random. I create new accounts from time to time (you will never guess my previous two usernames), and this time I ended up on SJW because the admins were OK with activating my account despite using abbogus email address during signup.

My reasoning was, it seemed like one that wouldn’t die off in a year or less. Making it less of a hassle down the road when I need to start another account, add all or really all of the communities to my subs, and possibly having to transfer moderation to the new account.

. World was probably at the top of a list that i picked from. Don’t remember what it was sorted by but it was probably not alphabetical.

Because I really had no idea what was going on lol