Post #3008452

2026-03-27 07:58 UTC

it’s weird that, because once you’re in it’s basically seamless. it’s just that first step of picking a server based on your interests that trips people up, because aren’t you supposed to pick interests after you get in? more national instances would probably solve that, i think, so you can just go to your local one.

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@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-27 08:02

more national instances would probably solve that, i think, so you can just go to your local one. That’s roughly how I chose my instance… I thought I’d choose an instance geographically close to me for latency reasons and such. I didn’t know anything about different Lemmy instances at the time and didn’t (for example) know that my instance actually hosts very few popular communities, so I’d be participating mostly in remote ones. :D

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@Foni@piefed.zip 2026-03-27 08:21

I have never understood the importance of choosing an instance, especially at the beginning. Sign up for any one, try it for a while and if you need to change later, you can do so without problems. On sites like mastodon where followers are essential it can be a problem, in lemmy where karma is not even accumulated, changing servers does not make you lose more than the 5 minutes it takes you to do it

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@tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2026-03-27 08:55

I’m on my 4th instance. Dropped my first be cause of old Lemmy’s autorefreshand other issues. 2 and 3 died as maintainers went away. I had to start over from zero again each time

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@RobotToaster@mander.xyz 2026-03-27 09:00

More instances with minimal/no defederation would help. That way you can just tell people to pick one of those instances and it doesn’t matter which one.

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