I joined this one because I just followed the obvious ways to sign up after looking up what Lemmy was about. I didn’t know about instances until I tried to sign in and had to find mine.

Is there a way to mess up making an alt by joining an unfit instance? From what I’ve read, it doesn’t really matter outside of an instance going down and your profile going with it.

Any help is appreciated.

  • Michael Douglass@thelemmy.clubOP
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    7 hours ago

    I do love the UI. I tend to wing stuff, so I’ll just go ahead with this.

    Umm, any recs on how to get started before I stumble in the dark?

        • Linda R@nord.pubEnglish
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          2 hours ago

          Well, there’s still the problem of finding an instance ;)

          For choosing my own instance, I’ve found this tool very handy: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list .

          Click the top of the column for uptime percentage. The ones with 100% are probably a bad idea, because that means they’ve never been updated. Then maybe take a look at where the server is located. If something looks good by these statistics, click the name of the instance to check the server version number. You generally won’t want an instance that lags far behind others in the version number – that indicicates a lazy server admin. It’s also good to read the instance description.

          Also, note that this listing currently conflates PieFed and PyLova, even though they are now two separate codebases. They still look and feel about the same because PyLova was forked from PieFed such a short time ago.