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What made you pick the Lemmy server you are on? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LastPirate@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Does it actually matter?

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[–] Bill@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah it does kinda matter, which is problematic for onboarding new users. Personally:

I read the rules/TOS.
I checked the Instances page to make sure instances I wanted to access were linked and not blocked.
I looked for any introduction posts to see what the backend infrastructure was like.
I checked the username I wanted was available.

It should not be that complicated, but it also has to be unfortunately. I had to make sure all those things matched what I personally wanted. This much choice is great for heavily-invested tech nerds with free time but sucks for anyone else wanting to join in.