Do ping times matter in choosing an instance? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 5 months ago by marmar22@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Most servers that I am interested on joining are hosted in Europe/US. The ping on those servers are usually 200-400 ms compared to big mastodon instances like fosstodon.org and universeodon.com (20-50 ms). Would this affect the responsiveness in a noticeable way?

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[-] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Not really.

I joined early stuff was unstable. I couldn't join one that was in my country (UK) and eventually managed to join one in Oz without knowing - just my luck!

I don't have any noticeable delays in content loading unless there's a general problem with the version of Lemmy.