biltongPieFed user surge continues! đ
https://piefed.co.za/c/fediverse/p/33160/piefed-users-surge-continues
SkavauWe need some new (a couple) of general-use instances to help direct this traffic! Piefed.social will help you and redirect traffic to you.
PieFed.co.za is hosted in Germany
Itâs kinda geared towards South Africans, but itâll be a place where anyone is welcome. I still need to do some housekeeping though.
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cabbageI really love that youâre building a South African instance!
As much as the influx of Europeans to the fediverse is lovely to see, the European/North American bias here is really striking. Thatâs of course not a problem of too many Europeans, but rather not enough other people.
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Sir. HaxalotIâm working on getting https://nord.pub online!(rebrand from experimental nord.red) Well, it is online but I wanted proper HA, Backups, and some curated Topics.
Hosted in the Nordics and committed to not being dependent on US tech. (using Hetzner Finland and BunnyCDN)
Yeah, general use with somewhat if a focus on the Nordics âmarketâ, but Iâm not planning on launching competing communities against anything existing.
Btw can I suggest joining the Zulip or the Piefed matrix chats.
Iâve been lurking on the Zulip for a while but youâre right itâs about time I sign up!
CoelacanthSigned up! I still might stick to this account mainly, but a Nordic oriented Piefed instance is definitely appealing.
lumpenproletariatQuokk.au is general use and international.
RimuYep we already have a bunch of good instances ready to go:
- https://quokk.au/ - southern hemisphere
- https://piefed.zip/ - finland
- https://feddit.online/ - usa
- https://piefed.ca/ - canada
- https://piefed.blahaj.zone/ - lgbqa
- https://piefed.europe.pub/ - europe
- https://pf.korako.me/ - japan
âŚand ~60 more which seem to be for personal or closed-group use but which could open their doors any time - https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
And a million more on the way!
The instance chooser thing is a great addition to PF to help get users distributed across instances.
If by âdirect trafficâ you mean to send them there, then Iâd say we donât need that, and shouldnât want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if youâre on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least donât send new people there.
Die4EverA small instance isnât going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.
People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people donât understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They wonât stop when an instance gets too large.