I've jumped around a lot after paying attention to other folks' instances and looking into ones that sound interesting in some way. As I've gotten more familiar with the fediverse concept and what's out there, I've hopped instances. I'm not a heavy user, so it takes a little time, but I'm definitely a little bit more satisfied after every jump. I actually just moved to kbin.social tonight, but haven't changed my login on this app yet. Swapped Mastodon servers, too, ended up at vmst.io. First one I actually found multiple things I was interested in following.
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I go to the ones that everyone else defederates. Means they have something important to say. I'm against all censorship.
It depends on who is defederating from you. Extremists? You're probably doing something right. Normal people? Maybe not so much.
Depends on your definition of "extremists" and "normal people"
I came here with the dndmemes crowd to https://ttrpg.network/ and I’m having a great time. Find your people, and you can easily subscribe across to what you want to see.
For me, if you are choosing a different instances for your alt account, always have a look at the instance's server location info and their blocked list, just in case
I chose my instance because of the admin (Stux). Basically, I knew that I could trust that it would be well run and have great moderation standards. It's a small server for now and pretty sleepy. Most of my subscriptions are from lemmy.world and a few other larger servers but it doesn't matter. I guess "local" might be less useful but that doesn't bother me. I can say that, over the two weeks I've been here, I haven't experienced any sort of performance issues or downtime.
The one case where I could see it being important is creating new communities -- it's probably more likely to have one take off on a larger server.
I’ve got an alt on sopuli.xyz