I want something spread out from a maint instance, and is relevant to me, so I went with Midwest.social. I also knew about their mastodon track record, which helps me feel secure knowing it's a good instance
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The language. There is few server that are solely or mostly in Portuguese.
Was looking for a smaller instance (to help spread out the lemmy load a bit) which doesn't block many instances so I don't risk having an instance I want to see blocked. By the way I also use Arch
I added an account to a few geared towards specific community types. Then I can easily switch accounts and view local.
I'm considering standing up an instance for this type of thing myself.
I went with ReddThat as the past tense seemed apt. Also it's a small enough instance not to feel overwhelming, while being large enough to provide content.
Lemmy user for a couple of days here. I jumped on lemmy.world because it was big and the name suggested it was universal and open, it had open registration and allows nsfw content.
I suffered through the technical issues many of us experienced, but everything seems much better and smoother now (maybe because they were able to fix the issues, or maybe because enough people left because of them, I can't say!)
Does it matter what you use? Yes and no, I guess. Apparently the last few days performance issues were mostly local to dot-world. I did make another profile on lemm.ee and I noticed the different instances seem to show different feeds with some different content, but also many of the same posts from the same communities as well. I'm still trying to figure out how they decide what they show in their feeds. Something to do with federation, I guess, but I'm not pretending to understand the meaning of that concept yet. Given that instances can choose to federated or defederate, it seems like it must matter to some extent what instance you are on even though content can be shared between instances.
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I went for what I believe to be the bigger one, because it might get a higher quality of support from third parties, and still be here after a year.