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by vlz
1087 days ago
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> It’s kinda like email. Ok, that does not sound reassuring. What does that mean for my account if the server I am on disappears? Can I still login? Will my posts disappear? (probably not, but join-lemmy.org doesn‘t say if I am not mistaken) My email provider has some way to make money. There is a good chance that it is around in 10 years. What about these servers? Who is running them and why should a single one still be around in 10 years? If the choice of a server really is not important, why doesn’t join-lemmy.org have a "join random server" button. Maybe these are non-issues. As a casually interested person I genuinely don’t know. |
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IME the reason they don't have a "join random" button is that would be bad for smaller instances and a "join largest and most popular instance" would be criticized for showing favoritism and discourage adopting the entire point of decentralized technology. Matrix gets this criticism all the time because they push a default sever in their defacto standard app Element.
As a casually interested user? Just Google what to do because more users will trust the latest tweet or reddit thread more than a FAQ page. You most likely created an email account without going to "email.acme.org" and asking what provider to pick and probably have gone though a few providers without much loss.