Until you accidentally end up on an instance that defederated from lemmy.world and are confused why there are no cute cat pictures

Is there a way to easily find an instance based on what you want to use lemmy for, not just what the instance is about?

Discord and email worked for a long time with needing something extra after the name. Why would the fediverse be different?

There is also only 1 [email protected]

Why would there being extra numbers or a different instace change anything?

Compared being tethered to multiple instances(one for each account), being tethered to one centralized instance is less of a form of centralization?

A while ago, programming.dev had a problem where nothing from the instance federated for a week. Lemmy felt so empty

No.

I think we should let meta federated to the fediverse until they try to influence it or integrate ads in posts or something else that can hurt the fediverse

Wouldnt the name of your profile be more specific than your ip address so it doesnt matter if they get your ip address or not?

Also, why would they store the data? They cant show you ads

Wouldnt it count for lemmy.world and other European instances because they are from Europe?

Lemmy.world banned piracy so a lot of people will stop using lemmy.world, splitting the load