It is like picking an email provider, but it’s like picking an email provider in the early days when there were no big players. People are more comfortable picking a provider that has a big name backing it. You even just mentioned providers from Google and Microsoft. No such options exist for Lemmy so people see all the instances and get overwhelmed. Personally it doesn’t bother me because I don’t care that much about my account history, but if you’re a content creator you don’t want to lose your account so it can be a deterrence, and other people may worry more about picking the wrong instance. I think it’s also not very straightforward what the implications of picking an instance is and a lot of instances don’t do a good job explaining their policies.
It is like picking an email provider, but it’s like picking an email provider in the early days when there were no big players. People are more comfortable picking a provider that has a big name backing it. You even just mentioned providers from Google and Microsoft. No such options exist for Lemmy so people see all the instances and get overwhelmed. Personally it doesn’t bother me because I don’t care that much about my account history, but if you’re a content creator you don’t want to lose your account so it can be a deterrence, and other people may worry more about picking the wrong instance. I think it’s also not very straightforward what the implications of picking an instance is and a lot of instances don’t do a good job explaining their policies.