Later down the line? Yeah, definitely. Your home instance determines the following things:
Who your admin is. Your admin has a lot of control over the instance. If spez started an instance, I’m fairly confident the entire fediverse community would avoid it.
What the rules are. How strict is the moderation? What are the standards you’re supposed to hold yourself to? Some are lax, some are more stringent.
How popular is your instance? In general, less popular = better. You’re gonna see the big recommended instances buckle and error over the course of the day. I’m kinda guilty of this, being on sh.itjust.works, but if it gets too bad I’ll probably make myself a temporary account on another instance temporarily. I really like how @theDude@sh.itjust.works is organizing stuff and I want the community to succeed. If that means reducing the load for a bit, I’ll happily do it.
Not a gigantic amount, tbh. I took a quick look at the post & comment history of your admins (@QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz and @Ninmi@sopuli.xyz), they seem like cool people. The rules seem reasonable. No red flags that I can spot on a cursory poke around.
For a new user? No. Makes no difference.
Later down the line? Yeah, definitely. Your home instance determines the following things:
Who your admin is. Your admin has a lot of control over the instance. If spez started an instance, I’m fairly confident the entire fediverse community would avoid it.
What the rules are. How strict is the moderation? What are the standards you’re supposed to hold yourself to? Some are lax, some are more stringent.
How popular is your instance? In general, less popular = better. You’re gonna see the big recommended instances buckle and error over the course of the day. I’m kinda guilty of this, being on sh.itjust.works, but if it gets too bad I’ll probably make myself a temporary account on another instance temporarily. I really like how @theDude@sh.itjust.works is organizing stuff and I want the community to succeed. If that means reducing the load for a bit, I’ll happily do it.
Still testing Sopuli. What do you know about it?
Not a gigantic amount, tbh. I took a quick look at the post & comment history of your admins (@QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz and @Ninmi@sopuli.xyz), they seem like cool people. The rules seem reasonable. No red flags that I can spot on a cursory poke around.