Is there any difference between Lemmy instances? If so, what are they? How do people choose an instance? How does one decide one instance over another?
On a related topic, do you have any opinions about specific instances? Not trying to start a beef battle or anything. Just curious in learning more.
I personally found a “service” about Lemmy instances about a year ago, with half a dozen instances “highlighted”, advising picking a popular but not too popular one, so I chose the one I use now (though I use Jerboa, extremely rarely the website). Now, I’m curious about learning more and seeing what other options could offer, if anything (not that I ever had any problem with Lemmy Today). Having an alternative could also be useful if there is ever an outage in one instance.
The only differences I’ve seen are the ideologies and focus. Some are about tech, other about anime, are others are echo chambers, I guess.
I can’t exactly tell how people choose their instances, but it’s either perfomancy, theme focus or ideology.