• Saneless@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The problem is the paradox of “it doesn’t matter what server you pick” while also giving them a choice.

    If choices don’t matter, why have a choice?

    Although I disagree that it doesn’t matter

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      1 year ago

      No choice doesn’t matterat all. However, the decision on which mastodon server to use for your social media is about as important as what you’ll choose to eat today for dinner. Yeah, kinda important for the dinner itself and you don’t want some crap, but if you do, you could just eat it anyway for now and try something else tomorrow.

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        1 year ago

        It does affect your experience.

        Joining a server with a small number of people vs a bunch will impact your initial experience and how fast you branch out

        It’s not anything that can’t be overcome but let’s not pretend every user understands how to expand their network

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          When you pick “federated” you’ll see all posts, independent from your instance. But that’s pretty much impossible because unless you have Tusky the posts will be too fast.

          So yeah, to be able to read anything you have to just read the posts on your instance, meaning it does matter which one you pick.

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        1 year ago

        or we make a few accounts on a few different servers.

        we don’t need to identify with our fediverse accounts.