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A lingering question about Federation from a user perspective (kbin.social)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Many of the subscriptions I'm making are to magazines that are coming from lemmy or other nstances because these are the ones making their way into my feed. Is there any downside to this in the fediverse?

Is there any reason (technical or otherwise) why I should prefer magazines that are at kbin.social (or kbin.anything) or does it literally not matter at all?

Edited to add: Thanks for all the good answers, I get it now!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If there's a kbin mag, I'll consciously give preference to that one simply because I like kbin and I want it to be as active and healthy as others are. I have the ability to make it that. So there's that perspective, though admittedly I am subbed to 4 different crochet subs and 3 of them are lemmy by necessity.

I don't think there's any giant downside other than that and the possibility of losing your favored instance somehow, whether through defederation, catastrophic server crash, or another spez admin.