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Oh, yeah, it's engaging stuffs. I've gone through:

• Oh, no, this instance defederates for safety but it stops working for days
• Oh, look, that instance is close to me and I can go faster
• Oh, crap, this instance doesn't allow downvote
• Oh, shoot, this instance doesn't work real well with this community
• Oh, look, that instance is using cloudflare
• Oh, no, this instance has trouble with this browser's extension

The good thing about all these is, one instance going down is not a problem anymore!

It can't truly be automatic. The other advantage of decentralization is that rules are also decentralized. Not all instances are the same in regards to what they will or will not allow to be posted locally. And they may defederate from other instances, etc. So it can't be automatic. A directory of instances with summarized rules, or instance niches would be helpful. And just another reminder to everyone, you don't even need to sign up with Lemmy to use Lemmy.

Yeah mastodon has some instance choosers that choose an instance based on preferences and other factors.

Yeah, especially all the Reddit expats. Myself included. Took me a while to understand what federated meant and how it worked.

But also what redditors want from Lemmy vs what Lemmy is are somewhat two different things.

The average tech idealist underestimates network effects and natural centralization. Any goal beyond a single entity having over half the traffic is probably too ambitious.

I agree with this fine gentleperson. They seem wise and totally cool and stuff.

The problem there is subbing to all my communities on each instance. It's getting to be a longer and longer schlep through that community list to find the ones I want. Plus I might have conversations going on multiple instances, which I will not remember to check on or even which instances I have a conversation going in.

True that

The more mature lemmy becomes the less realistic it will be to have multiple accounts for the same purpose.

Until the most popular instance breaks...

Account migration would definitely help. Most new users just go with the largest server because of FOMO and not understanding fully what federation is yet. Once they are comfortable enough, providing the ability to transfe their account to another instance would definitely be useful. Mastodon already allows you to do that.

eh, picking an instance wasn't too bad for me. I already knew how federation worked, though, so I suppose that was helpful. I just picked one that wasn't too big (cryptocurrency mining has centralization issues too and i knew a bit about that so i knew not to pick the biggest), and had reasonable rules.

I find using the Connect app for Android (not sure about ios) makes it easier to find or subscribe to a community, either by browsing by All or using the search bar, although the search function may take a few tries or not work at all

If you have any experience hosting stuff it's really easy to do using Lemmy-Ansible.

I made my own instance for fun and decided to open it up for the few people who might be interested in joining.

Yes but its honestly a lot of hassle and you would need to be very careful about security and bots

But it's not, right? I'm a Mastodon user, not a Reddit one. So I already migrated there but here doesn't seem like a possibility, which is annoying.

Lemmy.world has federation issues

no, but as a mod I suppose you can simply make your new account a mod as well

I personally just privated my communities and left a link to a new community on a different instance.

Done

As Luke skywalker said: Anywhere!