After spending a few days learning about lemmy and other fediverse websites, I was curious about people’s processes for picking a server that is right for them. I’ve seen most posts say to pick one that is not too big or small and that has similar interests as yourself. But if we are all mostly federated, doesn’t it make the most sense to join the biggest or likeliest server to stay around and federated with the most other servers? Then you can just travel to the instances you share interests in. I chose this instance because you could just sign up and be in it, and that was all I needed to check things out. And although I found many communities in other instances, even if let’s say all of my subscribed communities are on other instances, doesn’t it make sense to just stay here so long as they are federated with sh.itjust.works? It may be too early to know for sure, but it seems like this instance is going to stick around for the foreseeable future, why risk joining the smaller instances that might not be here for long. Also, if you have subscribed communities in several instances, I assume you have to follow all the different server’s rules. I’d be curious to hear other people’s thoughts in regards to picking a home instance.
Edit: Are there any restrictions to interacting with communities on other instances?
It seems kind of inevitable that there will be a bit of a period of instability before things settle a bit, and it that time maintaining accounts on multiple instances is inevitable. I am running into a few reasonable issues with federation in lemmy that I am sure will be ironed out eventually.
But yeah, it is kind of a bummer to set yourself up on one instance, and then watch it get defederated from a another major instance, even if it is for ultimately justified reasons.
Good point, I expect things to look very different a year from now. I’m honestly not sure if it will continue to grow or if its just a fad. I hope for the former.
Mastodon still seems to be getting better and growing every day. I think there is definitely some work that is going to have to be done to set up sustainable development of Lemmy.