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I have accounts on three instances but Iโ€™m unsure which one should be my main account.

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[โ€“] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Look at posts and comments from the instance admin. Does this person seem to know anything about running a server or managing software? Do you like the admin's tone and attitude? Does it seem like the instance will be around for the long-term, or is it someone's hobby that they may abandon on a whim?

Look at the instance's ban list. Do you agree with the choices? Maybe you want your All feed to include exploding-heads and lemmygrad, or maybe you don't.

Does the instance seem to have a community theme that you want to be associated with? Some emphasize LGBTQ+ communities, or NSFW content, or particular political views.

[โ€“] lemmychatwitpeeps@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How annoying. I thought the point of being federated was that i had 1 account for everywhere. Now the douchebag running my instance is going to ban certain communities (defederate) on my behalf? The fuck. Do i need an account on every server if i want to see everything? It's removed. Give me a ban button and open everything up.

[โ€“] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMO the point of a distributed network isn't convenience or unbridled free speech, but freedom of choice. Not only are there hundreds of instances to choose from, but anyone can run their own instance however they like, including you. If you host your own then you alone hold the ban button.

[โ€“] codus@leby.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Similar to how there are Mastodon hosting providers, I imagine Lemmy providers will eventually appear to make being your own admin even simpler.

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The transparency in funding and discussion of donations, the country or state it is hosted in (local laws), does its moderation policy align with your values?

If it's a small instance fewer communities may be federated already so you may need to be the one to manually search for them for the first time (thus adding them to your instance's "all" feed). Larger instances will already have many communities discovered and a fuller all feed. Though with lemmyverse.net and some determination you can build up the federated communities list up entirely yourself (and give everyone registered there an expanded "all").

[โ€“] fr33man@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I am on Lemmy.zip and the admins are very transparent on the funding as they have set up an Open Collective page, and they are also very receptive to user suggestions and feedback.

[โ€“] incogtino@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did a lot of that building up because there wasn't much content that interested me coming through.

In hindsight it may have meant I should have chosen a different instance but now it's done I'm pretty happy and as you mentioned, it expanded the content for other users on the instance

The moderation policy can be important, on lemmy.zip they're somewhat anti-defederation so I spent a half hour banning all the big communities from the problematic instances

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

You should use one of those tools to back up that work to a backup acct somewhere.

[โ€“] OrkneyKomodo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funny to see VLemmy on that list considering it abruptly ceased to exist a few days ago.

I think a few things on the are a bit out of date. I missed VLemmy going dark.

[โ€“] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

This is why paying attention to administration views and local laws of an instance are important.

Having a no defederation free for all was not a good idea.

[โ€“] Veraticus@lib.lgbt 6 points 1 year ago

Ideological similarity.

Do the admins federate/unfederate from instances you care about? Do they ban/allow communities in a way you agree with?

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

Do you plan to create communities? If so, choose the instance where the communities best fit the theme of that instance.

[โ€“] Link69@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you just want the most popular and wide range of profiles, go with Lemmy.world

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