The email requirement was annoying but this instance is fast.

Some villainous instances should be defederated tho.

I kinda dig this new (compared to Reddit) "friendly competition" dynamic between servers.

I wrote a essay with a million grammatical errors, then decided I'd prefer to have my account on a instance that is smaller and in the EU as I have that option :)

Also part of it was anxiety of who saw and approved 👍

Exactly why I choosed lemmy.world. I looked for something less busy, but justification for account? C'mon...

I'm on two, this and sopuli.xyz - which I joined on a whim before even knowing what lemmy was. I'm pretty sure my personal statement was merely "I miss usenet". And, it's weird, but the community search function is...inconsistent at best. I've tried searches on three different instances for a common term and come up with nothing (sopuli), 4 communities (.world), and 6 communities (.ml). .world seems like a more generic fit and, um, yeah - no personal statement.

I've been having a good time on vlemmy.net. It's small, has a fairly active admin, and seems to be fostering a healthy community with a reasonable number of restrictions.

me too lol. no ill intentions but just cba to apply for an account

i wrote about two or three sentences for every question, neatly formatted into three tiny paragraphs, got accepted within 5 minutes!

You haven't seen the lemmygrad join requirements.

I didn’t know there was an entrance quiz on the others!

I tried signing up here twice and wrote an essay both times and didn’t get accepted before I found lemmy.world. That’s alright I love it here anyway

Before I got in here, I tried to get into there. Glad they didn't let me in!

I tried lemmy.one, wrote like 3 short sentences to answer their questions, and never got a response.

still waiting for the adm to approve the account (4 days now), ain't nobody got time for that