There should be a kind of “sorting hat” personality test to attract the interest of prospective Lemmy joiners. People who love solarpunk stuff, for example, would easily find their home in slrpnk.net. Set a link to it on sites like join-lemmy.org to make the fediverse more approachable to casuals.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    5 hours ago

    I feel like the functional differences between instances are:

    • Interface and mobile apps (Lemmy vs mbin vs Piefed vs other)
    • More populated instances are going to have more “extra-instance” content federated to them, because more users means more subscriptions to comms/mags/whatevers at foreign instances
    • Instance uptime and reliability (which depends heavily on the number and attentiveness of instance admins)
    • Different instances will choose to defederate with other instances in different ways

    When I first immigrated here, the most popular platforms were Lemmy and kbin. I liked the kbin interface more, so I started on kbin.social - which folded after a while. So I switched to fedia.io, which runs mbin, a kbin fork.

    None of this has anything to do with “aligning a personal identity with an instance.”