I joined this one because I just followed the obvious ways to sign up after looking up what Lemmy was about. I didn’t know about instances until I tried to sign in and had to find mine.
Is there a way to mess up making an alt by joining an unfit instance? From what I’ve read, it doesn’t really matter outside of an instance going down and your profile going with it.
Any help is appreciated.
Id say what are your preferences… If you want mainstream for main stuff, Lemmy.world. if you want piracy or anarchy, lemmy.dbzer0.com is great. If you are from Canada Lemmy.ca is good. What’s bad? Opinionated. .ml is large but has backlash, .hexbear sees a lot of backlash, but not knowing you… It’s open game
Yeah, I guess that would be it. Music, anime, television. Maybe some random hobby stuff.
Just join any instance and then subscribe to communities that relate to those interests. You don’t have to browse All or even Local.
You can do this with the account you’re posting with right now it you want.
How do I search instances?
Here’s a list of instances https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Then you can search any communities across all instances that your instance is federated with