Yes, I just made the switch to a closer instance yesterday. So much faster. I was on lemmy.world for the past few weeks but then I realized the server is hosted in Europe and I was getting 144ms ping from US east coast. This new instance I'm on, I'm getting 22ms ping.
You can test latency yourself from cmd by typing "ping lemmy.world" for example
I hope they don't roll this out to Tmobile Prepaid. I don't really trust Tmobile with my bank account information.
Paying over $100 each month on cell plans is crazy. If all you use is talk, text, and some data, Connect by Tmobile Prepaid has $15 plan with 3.5GB per month