• 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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      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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        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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            It’s not even the speed. It’s also the content. All from all instances seems cool until you can’t read 80% of it because it’s in another language. I’m glad those instances exist but when I have to scroll through 5 posts to see one I can read, and it’s some low-effort post (on average) the experience is not a good one

            Even after all that work, you’ve gotten through 3 seconds of the world’s timeline

            Local is a good one, if your instance is lively enough. Then you can add people and see boosts and your world grows nicely

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              I find the “explore” page super useful for exploration! Spend a few minutes twice a day or so and the content quality is quite high, great place to branch out into boosts from. On my instance, I also do my best to curate the global feed to be somewhat useful (though things to creep in at the edges, I need to do some culling now for some Misskey bridges that are pretty loud in that feed).

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                I think that’s newer, no? Or at least slower to adopt by 3rd party apps. I don’t remember that being a thing 8 months ago.

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                  added in March of last year, and not sure about third party apps since I use the official interface. I find it very useful though, between that, hashtags, public lists of people to follow, and boosts, I set my feed up in about 6 hours and it’s been on minimal-maintenance-mode since and serving me fine. depends on how much the niche communities you like adopt the Fediverse too, YMMV!

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

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

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        Exactly. It just saves you the step of refollowing. Not a value-less feature, but my own posts matter to me too.

        If an instance is shutting down I can migrate and keep ally followers but I’ll just be at zero again for content. Not a good situation

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                Apologies, my familiarity with some of the terms of Mastodon are still a bit rough around the edges. By relationships, do you mean your followers and who you follow?

                If so, it does seem like your followers is preserved (so long as nothing inhibits the move signal), as for who you follow its not clear on the docs whether that is preserved or not (and I’ve not done an account move of my own) - but you can export a list of who you’re following from your account preferences, and then reimport it on your new account for sure.