How do people decide which instance to be on? How do you work through confusion of same acct names on different instances? Should we namestake on every instance we can and see which one seems best suited to us? How did you pick?

@nancybaym Homophily. It looks like most of the social computing researchers are finding their way to octodon.social.

@erhardt For any particular reason? I picked octodon through dumb luck and timing.

@nancybaym I was initially drawn to the name of this server, but I also took note that @natematias also chose this one before I registered.

@erhardt @natematias excellent criteria. if it's good enough for nate....

@nancybaym @natematias I might trust him too much. As a researcher of community governance, Nathan could either be leading us into particularly well-functioning or particularly chaotic systems...