The solution is so easy, we just need a quickly digestible post that can be posted to Reddit and be immediately grokked. I propose the following: (hem, hem)
I have been saying this for years. We need themed instances. People keep wanting to make general purpose Lemmy instances, then wonder why everyone ends up on the de facto main instance. Somebody open sportslemmy.sports or fedimusic.song and you’ll start getting folks 1. tripping over the sign-up process less and 2. actually spreading out.
There is also another German instance discuss.tchncs.de by Milan Ihl. I migrated here when feddit.de’s admin disappeared and feddit.org didn’t exist yet. I’m pretty happy so far, Milan is doing a good job. Only once (that I noticed) his Hetzner server went down for a few hours, but thanks to the status page it was at least obvious and he also fixed it quickly.
The solution is so easy, we just need a quickly digestible post that can be posted to Reddit and be immediately grokked. I propose the following: (hem, hem)
I really think it will drive up the numbers without any confusion
Du där, svenne! Gå till feddit.nu
Eh ! Toi, le Franco ! Viens sur jlai.lu !
You there, Dane! Go to feddit.dk!
You could probably send most americans to midwestsocial
I have been saying this for years. We need themed instances. People keep wanting to make general purpose Lemmy instances, then wonder why everyone ends up on the de facto main instance. Somebody open sportslemmy.sports or fedimusic.song and you’ll start getting folks 1. tripping over the sign-up process less and 2. actually spreading out.
It’s Brit/Briton and German, fyi.
Speak not to me in the low-tongue, Arcanian!
You there, the Australian! Go to aussie.zone!
There is also another German instance discuss.tchncs.de by Milan Ihl. I migrated here when feddit.de’s admin disappeared and feddit.org didn’t exist yet. I’m pretty happy so far, Milan is doing a good job. Only once (that I noticed) his Hetzner server went down for a few hours, but thanks to the status page it was at least obvious and he also fixed it quickly.