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submitted 3 weeks ago by Mr_Stellar@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Does it even make a difference? Would much appreciate some suggestions.

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[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 weeks ago

Your saved posts and comments are included in your exported settings along with your subscriptions. I was happy to discover that when I did it yesterday.
Most instances say where they are based in their instance description. If not, you can do a whois lookup to see the general area they are in. Another option is asking in the meta community of the instance.
Similar to the second point above, most instance owners are transparent with their infrastructure and the ones who are running small servers as hobby projects usually put it as a disclaimer.