Wandering Adventure Party

@juergen_hubert Can you talk more about how the "thematic" connection affects the content you see, or the connections you make?

I'm on sfba.social. AFAICT, that has little bearing on what I see in my feeds day-to-day. Would my life be any different on furry.engineer or freeradical.zone?

I always kinda felt like server instances should have a bit of the flavor of a subreddit, connecting you to like-minded folks, but maybe that's just not how it works?

(Not trying to be a pest here, this is something I've never quite understood about Mastodon and you seem like someone who knows what's up. Happy to read docs if you point me in the right direction. Thx!)

@juergen_hubert But those are features, and relatively minor ones at that. Where does community fit in? Does my server affect who I see and interact with? That's the biggest determinant of my fedi experience.

@juergen_hubert I assume my questions fall under "Moving to a server where the community and/or rules fit your needs better" ... but I don't see how my "server" and my "community" are related, most people I follow are on different nodes anyways.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@juergen_hubert This part of the Fediverse has always confused me.

I get the system-wide benefits of a decentralization, and preventing any one node from becoming too big.

But in practical terms, what does it matter for me (as an end-user) what node I'm on? I still follow who I follow, I still block bots & assholes, I still see what I see.

So why migrate?

Closely-related question ... If I do migrate, why choose one node over another? In practical terms, how does it affect what I see day-to-day?