Any instance of the top 15 is fine, be aware of .ml and lemmygrad political stances, and that Beehaw runs a very old version of Lemmy
Any instance of the top 16 is fine
FTFY.
To be fair, the top 30 or 40 are pretty solid.
And you can keep your old account!
Or you could have an account on literally every instance, like blaze.
What would change practically if I switched instances, like how would my day to day be different? I honestly do not know much about the fediverse.
The list of blocked instances might changed (check [myinstancena.me]/instances) and blocked users. Not every instances shows downvote. This make the all feed slighty different.
Your local feed will change a lot. In there you only see your instances community slrpnk.net is slorpunk oriented, feddit.it is italian speaking community and so on.
Your subscription feed will remain the same.
The list of possible interface will be different. That's on web browser but I don't know it affect application users.
Just switch instances, folks. I like .ee; there's lots of other good ones, too
Where are you located? Seems normal here in Europe
I'm in Europe too. Is not unusable, just a bit slow to charge the pages.
Try deleting all stored browser data for lemmy.world and then log in again.
Lemmy.world is on an old version that still has a bug that makes it accumulate excessive amounts of brower storage and that slows down your browser.
Discuss.Online is really fast for people in the USA. Being in Europe, you might check out sopuli.xyz?
If there only was a solution to that in this decentral and federated platform...
Export your user data, find a different instance, and hop over there.
It's practically effortless to change instances these days.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list , sort by active users
Any instance of the top 15 is fine, be aware of .ml and lemmygrad political stances, and that Beehaw runs a very old version of Lemmy
FTFY.
To be fair, the top 30 or 40 are pretty solid.
And you can keep your old account!
Or you could have an account on literally every instance, like blaze.
What would change practically if I switched instances, like how would my day to day be different? I honestly do not know much about the fediverse.
The list of blocked instances might changed (check [myinstancena.me]/instances) and blocked users. Not every instances shows downvote. This make the all feed slighty different.
Your local feed will change a lot. In there you only see your instances community slrpnk.net is slorpunk oriented, feddit.it is italian speaking community and so on. Your subscription feed will remain the same.
The list of possible interface will be different. That's on web browser but I don't know it affect application users.