I’m just still figuring this all out sorry if it’s a dumb question

EDIT: Thank you all for the answers! I’m honestly loving the entire idea of the fediverse, im a new fan!

  • Lodion 🇦🇺
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    102 years ago

    Not a dumb question… but some other things to consider:

    • moderation/rules
    • political leaning/community feel
    • geographic location… less important but can influence user experience
    • @PhantomPhanatic
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      22 years ago

      I was unable to determine any of these before I joined. It certainly isn’t easy. Is there a simple way to learn about these qualities of instances?

      • Lodion 🇦🇺
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        12 years ago

        Front page side bar usually shows rules. The others there is no simple way to find out in advance.
        My point was that it DOES matter where you create your account, beyond just getting a name you like. So I expect many people will hop around from instance to instance until they find “home”.

        • @PhantomPhanatic
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          12 years ago

          That’s fair. I do think bouncing around right now isn’t too bad. Sign up is simple and names are available. It could be harder later when name choices are slim or sign ups require more effort.

        • @24Vindustrialdildo@sh.itjust.works
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          12 years ago

          Whilst it’s all part of the fediverse experience, I think there needs to be a much lower friction workflow to migrate users, even if banned, to reduce the cost to a user of disagreements with mods that can’t be resolved harmoniously on an instance.

  • @jax@lemmy.cloudhub.social
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    52 years ago

    Pretty much! There isn’t currently a way to migrate accounts though, so keep that in mind.

    Might not be a feature you need now, but it is a nice-to-have from Mastodon that I’d like to see available everywhere.

    • @PhantomPhanatic
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      32 years ago

      My fear is that an instance I join could fold and lose my history and name. I believe we’ll probably see a feature that allows migration in the future, but it seems the best solution now is to roll your own.

      • @sparklingsquirrel@feddit.de
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        22 years ago

        Same. I think this might also be one of the reasons people join larger instances (besides not knowing where to go). At least it was like that for me. I really hope we see that feature sooner than later. Maybe I’ll try setting up my own instance when I have enough time to figure out how that works.

  • @Kris@thebestinstance.com
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    42 years ago

    Yes. But think of it as an email. @you@gmail.com and @you@yahoo.com is the same as @you@lemmy.ml and @you@lemmy.world.

    I have @kris@thebestinstance.com heh

  • unker73
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    2 years ago

    Yep. Find any instance/server you can join. Then search for communities to subscribe to, from any other instances.

    I’m all of 2 days old!

  • Talos
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    12 years ago

    I just chose Lemmy.world at random, pretty much. You can still view and participate in other servers.

  • @Wander@yiffit.net
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    12 years ago

    There’s one thing you might want to take into account and that’s whether the instance accepts nsfw content or not. From the large ones, only lemmy.ml will refuse to show you nsfw.

    Also, don’t choose an instance that’s so problematic that it is blocked by all other instances.

    Other than that it should not matter really much.

  • @bryan@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 years ago

    Was one of the reasons I picked the server I’m on.

    The downside is if you are the first person on that server to subscribe to a community then the syncing of the posts and comments starts when you subscribe. So you might not get to see older content.

    This is not really a big deal and you can always go to the originating server that hosts a community to read old stuff.