People don't know what choosing a server entails, because it does matter and a lot of people aren't exactly helpful when they say "just pick any" or "it's like email"

Server choice matters because:

Server might federate with a limited number of other servers;
Server might be blacklisted by some servers which you might want to interact with;
Servers can be running different versions of software, so people might think about security;
Servers can go offline
Server choice can significantly impact how people perceive you. "Oh look, another tankie from ml"

So, server choice matters and people coming in from corporate shit don't know how much they need to know to make an informed decision, thus giving up.

[–] Vittelius@feddit.org 2 points 11 hours ago

Your server is your algorithm. That's what the local feed is for. If you pick a server that caters to your interest, then the local feed becomes a potent discovery tool. That's even more true for non-English communities because English language content is probably going to drown out everything else on the all/global feed

[–] pohart@programming.dev 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah I was pretty disappointed when my server started limiting what political servers I see by default. I want it to show up and then choose for myself, not have to sell out every community. Their supposed to just showvup. It's not like they were nazis or porn even.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, figuring out Instances with Lemmy took several days for me. Lemmy.world simply wasn't fit for my purposes, and potentially could have made me tune out the entire Lemmy ecosystem. I was like "this is it?".