Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner

• 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I had to make the life-threatening choice between Gmail, Hotmail, and Proton, I almost died!

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Tbf that's a big deal for Mastodon aka Fediverse, not so much on the Threadiverse with K/Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed.

  And the tools that exist to help are laughably bad - the last time I tried the auto-selector website it chose for me hexbear.net, and I noticed Lemmy.ml was prominently displayed up high in their listing (surely the Windows-using centrists and conservatives on Reddit will have no problems joining that extremist leftist instance of FOSS enthusiasts... r-r-right?!).

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• BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I don't think the "choosing a server" thing has been a serious roadblock for years, if it ever was. Most people just pick The Big One anyway. If they knew enough to care about distributing users properly among instances, they probably wouldn't be intimidated by picking

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