DuckDuckGo AKA Bing is complete dog doo. When you are looking for news it only tries to shove in the Microsoft MSN news page. The algorithm manipulation in favor of Western MSM bias is even heavier than Google. When you search certain terms it refuses to show articles containing those exact terms.

The fediverse needs to be plug and play. Blaming non techy users is a cop out.

Every instance has its ups and downs. Account age is of little value so I would say use your current account for a while and explore the different instances.

You can also make different accounts on different instances with the same username. That practice is totally normal.

Because .world is the biggest instance it tends to be the most Reddit like. Maybe try lemmy.sdf if you want a different more local experience.

Besides the server hosting location there appears to be very little Dutch about it.

But then again the Dutch politicians are known to kowtow America does. The Netherlands recently voted against the EU defense spending because they love NATO and the orange man so much.

Lemmy.world