it’s confusing from the perspective of choice paralysis, ultimately you can just make a new account and move to another instance if you really don’t like the one you’re on.
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ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world 1 week ago
A lot of disingenuous Lemmy users in that thread pretending that picking a server is more confusing than filing your taxes. I think join-lemmy should probably hot-list like 6 or 7 servers instead of making you choose via a primary interest, since you can migrate your account later anyway. But I am personally not tech oriented and managed to make an account and find an app without an issue.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
travysh@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Unless something has changed, migrating your account is more like copy/pasting config on a new account. Your post history etc however does not come with it. If that’s something that matters to you then picking the “right” server matters a little bit.
For example lemmy.world has defederated from a bunch of instances (lemmy.world/instances) Creating your account there means you’re missing some of the full experience of Lemmy, for better or for worse. A smaller instance may federate more content, but may run slower or worst case stop working entirely if the admin abandons it.
I just used a handful of different servers over the course of a few weeks to see which was my ideal server.
tempest@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I know this might hurt to read but the average reddit user probably is someone who doesn’t know how email works.