Admins / instance owners can control what other instances and communities the local users have access to. And entire instances can be dropped automatically because of long response times.
This was one of the top instances recommended on join-lemmy, and it couldn’t find top communities from lemmyverse. Out of curiosity, I poked my head back to the instance a second ago, and I see users asking the server owner about it.
Maybe my experience is rare, but if the instance you choose is going to have a material effect on what instances and communities you can interact with, that’s essential info to choosing a home.
Searching for specific communities and they aren’t present on the server.
All communities exist across the fediverse, it doesn’t matter on which instance you personally are. Or am I missing something?
Admins / instance owners can control what other instances and communities the local users have access to. And entire instances can be dropped automatically because of long response times.
Yeah, defederation exists but that doesn’t (shouldn’t?) happen that often.
This was one of the top instances recommended on join-lemmy, and it couldn’t find top communities from lemmyverse. Out of curiosity, I poked my head back to the instance a second ago, and I see users asking the server owner about it.
Maybe my experience is rare, but if the instance you choose is going to have a material effect on what instances and communities you can interact with, that’s essential info to choosing a home.