Does it actually matter?
Registrations were open
Basically this, I tried some servers until I found one that let me register without problems.
…it was the first server that came up. I clicked on it, and here we are.
I’ve been happy with mastodon.world and Lemmy.world has the same admin(s).
I think there are two main schools of thought when choosing an instance:
- Smaller more interest based. The advantage here is your local timeline/feed will closer match what you’re into.
- Larger general interest. Your feed will be less tailored but you have the advantage of more stability, reliability, and commitment to maintaining the instance.
It’s the typical small fish in a big sea or a big fish in a small sea dichotomy
I wanted a smaller instance and because I use Arch, btw.
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).
Beehaw said adios to a lot of the communities I subbed to so I just came to where they were anyway.
I wanted to experience massive slowdowns and losses of basic functionality every time spez pissed off reddit again.
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.