But it does matter, doesn’t it? My understanding is that your account data lives somewhere on the server you join, so you need to have some level of trust in that server. When I joined Lemmy yesterday, I saw some of the more popular servers were overloaded, so I joined a small one that seemed reasonable. But I guess that instance was having some trouble, and I couldn’t get content and search to load on the site. I swapped over to a more popular instance and seem to be running fine, so I guess it was instance-specific issues.
And also, I imagine an unreliable site could go down without warning, and take your account with it.
Or do I totally misunderstand how this fediverse thing works? Either case, it’s probably a decent idea to host your own instance if you can, but that introduces a pretty high barrier to entry.
Logic Projects on YouTube has a RPG they’re working on that could be relevant to you.
I’ve tried something myself and ended up writing my own data structures to hold handles to the sprites and change them as necessary. But that’s a lot of work still and not sure if it’s the best long-term.