Most servers that I am interested on joining are hosted in Europe/US. The ping on those servers are usually 200-400 ms compared to big mastodon instances like fosstodon.org and universeodon.com (20-50 ms). Would this affect the responsiveness in a noticeable way?
I kind of noticed that it’s a bit slower if the ping is high (another continent)
On which continent are you located?
Around Southern Asia. The lowest ping time here is misskey.io (~10 ms) but… I don’t think it would be in my best interest to have doujins in my local timeline
Wouldn’t it better for you to use https://monyet.cc/, the Malaysian instance?
For web browsing? No.
Not really.
I joined early stuff was unstable. I couldn’t join one that was in my country (UK) and eventually managed to join one in Oz without knowing - just my luck!
I don’t have any noticeable delays in content loading unless there’s a general problem with the version of Lemmy.
Not really that important, the first load might be really slow, but after that it should be smooth. The api responses will be slower, but it doesn’t matter that much.