I’m new to Lemmy. I came across join-lemmy.org and browsed the servers by “most active.” Blåhaj stood out to me because of its cute logo. I’m a straight cis girl, but I love the LGBT community, and being an escort I’ve met many trans girls (and some gay guys) through my work, so I’ll always stand in full solidarity with them. I also noticed that the instance has downvotes disabled, which made it feel like the right place for me, lol. Curious how it went for you all.
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.