Other consideration I’ve become aware of with time:
Some instances are defederated from many others. I’ve had to look to find one that isn’t. I want the option to block instances but don’t want the decision made for me. I forget the resource someone gave me for this.
I’ve had to look for an instance that seems stable enough and not at risk of being killed off or going down for extended periods without maintainance. I had accounts on Lemm.ee and the NSFW instance that were both killed off.
You’ve mentioned smaller numbers (which isn’t a bad thing). But the distributed nature is an issue for me. Communities are not unified and you get multiple small communities across multiple instances and a very fragmented userbase.
Some apps or even fediverse instances like PieFed can help with the fragmentation of communities. In PieFed’s case, you can create or follow “Feeds” which combine multiple communities into 1. It also combines anything that’s been cross-posted so that you can see the comments from any crosspost all in the same place.
Other consideration I’ve become aware of with time:
Some instances are defederated from many others. I’ve had to look to find one that isn’t. I want the option to block instances but don’t want the decision made for me. I forget the resource someone gave me for this.
I’ve had to look for an instance that seems stable enough and not at risk of being killed off or going down for extended periods without maintainance. I had accounts on Lemm.ee and the NSFW instance that were both killed off.
You’ve mentioned smaller numbers (which isn’t a bad thing). But the distributed nature is an issue for me. Communities are not unified and you get multiple small communities across multiple instances and a very fragmented userbase.
Some apps or even fediverse instances like PieFed can help with the fragmentation of communities. In PieFed’s case, you can create or follow “Feeds” which combine multiple communities into 1. It also combines anything that’s been cross-posted so that you can see the comments from any crosspost all in the same place.