I’d choose one at least somewhat near yourself. It’ll improve latency, and it’s your window to the world, so you’ll always feel that latency when browsing.
There’s probably some webpage out there that will measure load times, if you don’t have tools yourself.
Yeah discuss.tchncs.de has been serving me well so far too. I don’t really know how it compares to other instances because I haven’t had a previous account elsewhere.
Pick one of the top 50 or 100 ones at random, just avoid lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, they are larger than they should be.
I am currently using discuss.tchncs.de, you can try it out.
Lemmy’s introduction website is good at this btw:
https://join-lemmy.org/instances?topic=all_topics&language=en&scroll=true
I’d choose one at least somewhat near yourself. It’ll improve latency, and it’s your window to the world, so you’ll always feel that latency when browsing.
There’s probably some webpage out there that will measure load times, if you don’t have tools yourself.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/ or https://mbin.fediverse.observer/ will geolocate your IP and try to show a list of geographically-nearby instances; not quite the same thing as network latency, but correlated.
Yeah discuss.tchncs.de has been serving me well so far too. I don’t really know how it compares to other instances because I haven’t had a previous account elsewhere.