I didn't realise that one was Canadian as well. I did love the name as it vibes with my exact feelings as I've explored lemmy instances and this whole concept. Ended up at lemmy.ca as that .ca domain just sold it for me

Do what makes you happy. Bring with you what you want, but remember this is a fresh start all the same :)

Gotta support the '.ca' anyway we can! Underutilized domain imo

For others...

If you're Canadian lemmy.ca has also been great. There is an application but I was approved in less than 4 hours answering the 4 simple questions.

They've also recently rejigged the administration and just upgraded to a brand spanking fast server this canada day

Funnily enough seems everyone is coming at this from the wrong angle personally. I don't give af who I'm talking to sure, and I can confirm the instance if I must by clicking into their profile.

That said, I more so care about someone pretending to be me in an active thread. Like an active discussion or argument and someone decides to recreate your user on a different instanceand start inserting comments that confuse the discussion.

Or maybe you've stopped commenting, then someone else continues the conversation unbeknownst to you in your name.

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Whereas you signed up on lemmy.world, I signed up on lemmy.ca.

Our accounts live on these different instances of the same platform.

Someone else may have an account on sh.itjust.works.

Each of these instances can have communities (subreddit equivalent). Through federation (essentially agreement to talk with eachother). We (account holders on different instances) can interact, post and comment anywhere on these and other federated instances.

In a weird way, these instances are an adhoc load balancer since I am using resources primarily from lemmy.ca and you are using resources from lemmy.world. This last piece is most relevant to the potential issue stated. A good load balancer, balances the load efficiently and effectively. If everyone made an account on lemmy.world it would get an uneven share of the load and struggle to keep its infrastructure alive or scaled well. Additionally, it goes against the decentralized nature of federated instances.

Now please take this all with a grain of salt, I have been here since july 1 and so am taking the rough concept I've learned and tried to explain it. Likely missing critical technical details and the analogies may be imperfect. :)

Similar-ish for me. Although not speed, just saw lemmy.ca and couldn't not support the 'local' domain. Understanding the fediverse enough to know I can still access it all (for the msot part) helped.

I stumbled into lemmy disoriented and just went with lemmy.ca because I always want to support 'local' domains. I'm surprised people go for for something like '.world' tbh. Although, I think your logic makes sense I also know how little people read and its safer to say people just signed up for the instance that was the path of least resistance (low application threshold, links guiding them in, etc)

Definitely would have enjoyed this over a big stick from the woods back in the day ahaha

🟤 close enough, whether you view it as more valuable due to lack of effort or less valuable cause its an emoji is completely up to you!

Not even the effort to type out Lemmy themselves, ripped straight from a webpage. Perfection