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D06M4@lemmy.zip 2 days agoProbably the uncertainty of choosing a server and have it either vanish unexpectedly or it’s admins ban your account without prior warning or transparency, which is also pretty common here in the fediverse.
I always help onboard people choosing one or two longstanding servers they might like. The last time I told someone to just use the matrix.org server to begin (years ago) it had closed registrations two hours earlier. Never again. 😅
timestatic@feddit.org 1 day ago
Wait but isn’t matrix.org available to anyone now?
D06M4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It probably is. They just close registrations from time to time. But other smaller servers are usually a better choice.
There’s a couple of server lists I like to check.
timestatic@feddit.org 1 day ago
I agree that smaller communities might care more about the users, but they often heavily depend on single individuals which is a heavy risk factor long term imo
D06M4@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
It is. We witness it almost every month here in the fediverse. But for the time being, unless more decentralized options like Briar, Simplex and Session become more accessible and reliable, a few federated options are the best we have available even if their server/node/instance admins carry too much power and responsibility over them.