So from what I can see there, don't advertise the fediverse via join-lemmy.org. It's actively offputting to people. They don't understand it.
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I need to stop replying to so many comments, it makes me look like a desperate saleswoman in the parking lot.
Instance choosers in general are an anti-pattern.
The Piefed one is quite okay
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.
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
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.
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
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).
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.
Nice. The top comment is recommending Lemmy with 200 points.
Also:
It's a decentralised platform that is rather complicated to use. It's been around for years and has failed to take off. It has it's own set of issues.
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Own set of issues? Possibly referring to .ml, hexbear and the other tankie strongholds.
is piefed.social european? or what piefed instances are european?
No, it's from New Zealand. Or at least that's where Rimu is from.
Piefed.zip is European.
The instance chooser sorts by ping so people can easily find those closest to them. Europeans will tend to have european-hosted instances listed first.
https://piefed.ee/ claims an association with Estonia.
https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/ is french, probably in EU?
https://piefed.zip/ has the worst ping for me (in New Zealand) so must be in EU somewhere.