I didn’t pick Lemmygrad.ml because of tankies. I didn’t pick Lemmy.ml because it was the biggest server in April last year, and I wanted to avoid the biggest servers (same thing with other fediverse pages). Other servers had dozens of users and almost no content. The server I’m on had like 500 users and a moderate amount of content. And it was located in Finland, Europe (I’m from Spain).

…it was the first server that came up. I clicked on it, and here we are.

Beehaw said adios to a lot of the communities I subbed to so I just came to where they were anyway.

Registrations were open

Someone invited me to kbin.social, and did the work of creating a community for us. Like 99.99% of the Redditors in my community did not follow, but I did, and more will come as Reddit gets worse and the Fediverse gets better.

Don’t overlook the effect of providing an actual helping hand to someone to lessen the transition pains, for people who are legit interested and would feel more welcomed that way than having to face that barrier as their very first task.