In many self-hosting services, I see there are many options for many instances and all look similar even some services have many same looking instances in the term usability, privacy and security, So how could i choose between them?
P.s I am unable to selfhost for many reasons releated to the expensive cost of the servers in my poor country and the limited internet quota available here.
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You mean for a service like Lemmy? Some people may choose:
- closer geographically because it’s sometimes faster
- moderation policies and federation/defederation policies
- larger instances may mean better survivability, or smaller instances because they seem to be less attractive targets for cyberattacks
- larger instances because some functionalities (like community searches, post searches) will be faster because the contents are most likely on the server already
- based on the laws of the country where the instance is hosted
All in all, you can also create accounts on a few instances and just try them out.