If I came across as passive aggressive, I apologize, that was not my intention.
It’s rather difficult to ask the question without joining SOME instance.
In my personal view, it’s already a strange question to ask internet strangers and if people cared about a service or an account they create, I would expect them to do basic 5 minute “research” about that service/account by which I mean clicking on the rules and guidelines in the sidebar. If I didn’t do that, it would mean to me that I have no expectation of that service at all. Maybe I’m expecting too much, I don’t know, but that’s something I would definitely do and expect others to do as well.
And a feature of the fediverse is that it really doesn’t matter which instance you join first, because you’re supposed to be able to switch very easily.
If you don’t care about your account and just want to be able to access lemmy, which instance you join doesn’t matter because if the instance turns out to be bad or goes out of service, you can set up another account in 10 seconds. But if you care about your comment/post history or can’t be bothered to set up a new account on another instance, at this moment, it does matter who you choose to trust at least a little bit.
If I came across as passive aggressive, I apologize, that was not my intention.
In my personal view, it’s already a strange question to ask internet strangers and if people cared about a service or an account they create, I would expect them to do basic 5 minute “research” about that service/account by which I mean clicking on the rules and guidelines in the sidebar. If I didn’t do that, it would mean to me that I have no expectation of that service at all. Maybe I’m expecting too much, I don’t know, but that’s something I would definitely do and expect others to do as well.
If you don’t care about your account and just want to be able to access lemmy, which instance you join doesn’t matter because if the instance turns out to be bad or goes out of service, you can set up another account in 10 seconds. But if you care about your comment/post history or can’t be bothered to set up a new account on another instance, at this moment, it does matter who you choose to trust at least a little bit.