I feel like having a preference kind of defeats the point?

I thought they were supposed to be interchangeable?

It’s the communities yours supposed to care about.

That’s always been the burning question for me. Why choose one over the other? What kind of attributes should I look at to do informed comparisons? Like server uptime, number of users, which instances they’ve federated with (or not federated with)…

And how and where can I see all this in one place? If it’s truly interchangeable, which it really isn’t, then why not have a single unified web front to reduce confusion for most normal users?

I think the unified webfront is a bit tough, I believe right now the instance will pull from other instances if someone on the instance your in is following something from their instance

But you can really be on any instance and follow stuff from everywhere else, the search needs a bit of work in cataloging everything so a tool like browse.feddit.de is really useful in finding communities

I would also like to shout out lemmyverse.net, it’s basically indexed every instance and every community (even minuscule instances like mine are counted), and I think it has a really good search and sorting function. Also, it does include KBin magazines, but you have to enable it in the settings menu in the upper right part of the screen.

awesome thank you, just used it to find the elder scrolls oblivion community, hope to start seeing some of my favorite memes again