I had to make the life-threatening choice between Gmail, Hotmail, and Proton, I almost died!
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Saleh@feddit.org 11 hours agoBut imagine having to choose a server from which to access the fediverse! This is just too complicated!
6nk06@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 10 hours ago
I don't think the "choosing a server" thing has been a serious roadblock for years, if it ever was. Most people just pick The Big One anyway. If they knew enough to care about distributing users properly among instances, they probably wouldn't be intimidated by picking
OpenStars@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Tbf that's a big deal for Mastodon aka Fediverse, not so much on the Threadiverse with K/Mbin, Lemmy, or PieFed.
And the tools that exist to help are laughably bad - the last time I tried the auto-selector website it chose for me hexbear.net, and I noticed Lemmy.ml was prominently displayed up high in their listing (surely the Windows-using centrists and conservatives on Reddit will have no problems joining that extremist leftist instance of FOSS enthusiasts... r-r-right?!).