This is the first instance that immediately accepted me when I tried to register. I tried other auto accept instances but my applications literally wouldn’t get through and I’d be stuck on the application page. Anyway, so far I find this site really neat and the loading speed is the best I’ve tried. Thank you for setting up this instance admins. Hope the Fediverse grows.

Since you can subscribe to stuff even from other "instances"? Does it really matter which one you sign up on?

It's not like I'm Communist or Fascist so the major players should probably be in contact with each other anyways.

Instances can defederate each other so you can't see communities. Beehaw just defederated us due to the large influx of users containing some people trolling their communities. The moderation tools are not great right now and so rather than dealing with the influx of trolls they defederated this instance.

So you can't see Beehaw communities and their users cannot see your posts if you post on another instance's community.

This lets instances decide who they want to associate with and is a good thing for the long-term health of social media. You don't want to be a part of instances that associate with terrorist instances or other shady things, de-federation is the tool to keep that from happening.

In general, any instance is as good as any other but as time goes on there may be a few different 'islands' of instances that are functionally separate from each other and you'll either choose one or use multiple accounts to swap between them.