Does it even make a difference? Would much appreciate some suggestions.

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    1 month ago

    This has really made me lose faith in a defederated system like this.

    @Anyone: please let me know if I’m wrong about these and if there’s a solution, but as far as I can see:

    • I can’t export my account (most importantly all the posts and comments I’ve saved).
    • It’s difficult to find where a server is based.
    • Some instances seem to be solo hobby projects. I don’t want to pick another instance that is at risk of being killed.
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      1 month ago
      • Your saved posts and comments are included in your exported settings along with your subscriptions. I was happy to discover that when I did it yesterday.

      • Most instances say where they are based in their instance description. If not, you can do a whois lookup to see the general area they are in. Another option is asking in the meta community of the instance.

      • Similar to the second point above, most instance owners are transparent with their infrastructure and the ones who are running small servers as hobby projects usually put it as a disclaimer.

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      1 month ago

      The lack of account mobility is really a huge problem with the fediverse, you lose all your stuff if you move to another instance.

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      You’re being down voted, but I feel you. It’s why I picked one of the largest instances when I joined, despite what other Lemmings tend to tell people to do. Picking a small instance is a bad idea because they die out like that. I’ve seen several fairly significant smaller instances die out at this point. I don’t want to wake up and my account suddenly vanished one day because the host forgot about it.