you dont need to pick a small server like that man. that's what he's saying. All servers can communicate. You're not locked into servers. This isnt an MMO...

you dont need to pick a small server like that man. that's what he's saying. All servers can communicate. You're not locked into servers. This isnt an MMO... infosec.exchange, the one I use, isnt an exclusive thing. It basically just shows my name as: unloco@infosec.exchange. I can see and talk to mastodon.social. I can use hashtags and people from other servers will see it just like twitter. The server you pick is just a name and a local server. If you pick a server that's dying, just move to the next one. You keep everything, it just changes from: unloco@infosec.exhange to unloco@mastodon.social. You wont lose the friends, just the host name changes.