Hardware specs used to run the instance (for supporting active users, the beefier the better and the more reliable it makes the instance from going down)
Instance sign up policies (I prefer closed, requested account creation, because the hardware then comfortably supports the active users, and also mitigates bot account creation spams)
General support for popular federated content and level of defederation (can’t use lemmy properly without general federation)
maybe ideology of the instance admin (?) but not really
I joined Sopuli 9 months ago, and they do a really good job with all of my categories.
I also created accounts on the main .ml and shit just works instance but one or the other factors failed there, where it didn’t here, so I’m waiting for Lemmy to allow account migration to fully get rid of those.
In order of priority:-
I joined Sopuli 9 months ago, and they do a really good job with all of my categories.
I also created accounts on the main .ml and shit just works instance but one or the other factors failed there, where it didn’t here, so I’m waiting for Lemmy to allow account migration to fully get rid of those.