I was looking over instances sorted by uptime, saw one that had high uptime, a lot of users, and a literal promise that shit will just work in its name. I did a bit of scoping to see that it was easy to view communities across all instances from SJW and figured, fuck it, seems like as good a choice as any.

I picked one at random. Then I quickly realised .ml is nuts so I picked a different random one. How do I feel about about my instance? No strong feelings one way or the other. It’s ok I guess

I wanted a place for the digital nomad and travel niche, so I made it. I’m hoping to have resources like maps, tips, and other things like blogs

check out the communities https://piefed.keyboardvagabond.com/communities?home_select=local

there’s also [pixelfed](https://pixel/ fed.keyboardvagabobd.com) and mastodon, though it’s been a bit harder to get them as full with content

It’s located in my country.

It worked, and was better than my previous instance.

I have problems with control and lack of choice, when my first instance started de-federating willy nilly I started growing distaste on it. To me it wasn’t about what /was/ being censored, to me it was the fact that they were doing so in the first place, while doing so with very little public input. It gave really large Karen/power trip vibes and made me feel like at the end of the day, they didn’t really care about the userbase.

i chose mander.xyz because they do not de-federate or block any instances (other than threads) - I would like the opportunity to do my own censoring. That said, it is a great instance with good up time and hosted communities. Science FTW. A++

The other furry instance shut down. 😞

It was the first one I saw that didn’t have a “silly” name.

Gender dysphoria

.world was the biggest one. I have since switched to one that doesnt have abusive zionist mods in news and worldnews (looking at you, jordanlund), but I still come back to .world periodically when I dont see much new content on the instance I like. Mods moderating to support their own biases can ruin a site.

Dring the Reddit Migration, this was the first one I heard about, so I picked it. Haven’t been bothered to change it since.

It would be weird to host an instance without using it…

Blåhaj.

so I liked kbin a lot and it was cause of ernest and what he was doing. then when it kinda fell apart I joined a small mbin instance based on what they guy who runs it wrote which was mostly just about being very much against censorship. Then piefed came about and what im on now is kinda the main instance and honestly its about the devs again who just were passionate about making something great and really expanding capabilities and such. I use a web portal and mostly im following the features I guess with features being things that put as much control in the hands of the user as possible.