I think it matters significantly less with Lemmy than it does with Mastodon/Pleroma/etc. For one, it's pretty low-stakes: With Mastodon, you lose your follower

I think it matters significantly less with Lemmy than it does with Mastodon/Pleroma/etc. For one, it's pretty low-stakes: With Mastodon, you lose your followers, your posts, and your platform. It's hard to start from scratch, unless you have a chance to move house with the “migration” tool. Lemmy accounts are, comparatively, much more disposable. You can move house at the drop of a hat and it doesn't matter too much; your new profile has fewer comments in its history, who cares? People don't follow _you_, after all, they follow the _community_. If you pick a bad server, just make a new account, no problem.