Not really, a slick design can't really get away from the fact this is presenting a new user with too much information that they don't have the system knowledge to understand. This will still lead to choice paralysis and ultimately the user not signing up for any instance.

I'd even say that Piefed putting it on the instance level registration page is actually a really bad idea.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I usually just point people to https://piefed.zip/ , that way they don't have to choose anything by themselves

If people ask about different instances then I link the instance chooser

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'll defer to you given I don't do outreach while you do. Honestly an ideal would just be a simple website that chooses a random instance from a list of known good instances and takes them through the sign up process.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The issue is that good instances are probably going to be influenced by the user location, and there aren't that many Piefed instances at the moment anyway to really have alternatives on the same continent

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't see why it'd have to be limited to Piefed instances and we can do certain heuristics to test if an instance is good for a user's location (Piefed's instance chooser does this).

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I personally prefer to point people to Piefed nowadays for the comments consolidation feature alone. Discussion split across multiple communities is an issue raised a lot in the Reddit thread linked in the OP, and comments consolidation allows to solve this.