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 first joined lemmy.dbzer0.com for the piracy and because the instance owner is an anarchist (or at least he claims to be, I don't really know that), then I got locked out of my bitwarden so I decided to make another account at reddthat.com so I don't have to type another essay to apply for lemmy.dbzer0.com (they've been application only since the spam bot threat and the temporary captcha removal from the code in Lemmy 18.0) And I chose reddthat because the name sounds fun, like reddit, but instead of read-it, it's read-that. Very pun-ny 😆
I don't really like reddthat after finding out that they disabled downvotes (they used ti allow downvoted if I remember correctly), but I don't want to deal with creating another account again so here I am.
If I forget my password again (let's hope not), I'd probably use lemmy.fmhy.net (formerly lemmy.fmhy.ml) because of piracy and no applications.
Just FYI: My entire application message was a single sentence and it was approved in less than an hour.
Oh.. well if you ever consider to jump, check out the tool I linked, it will only take you a few minutes!
I hope migration tools like this improve to fetch all account data like upvotes, comments, posts, saved etc...