We 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

It’s kinda geared towards South Africans, but it’ll be a place where anyone is welcome. I still need to do some housekeeping though.

I really love that you’re 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. That’s of course not a problem of too many Europeans, but rather not enough other people.

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Thanks, it’s quite fun to setup and run an instance and helping the community grow. Hopefully I can get a bunch of South African and Africans to join my instance.

But anyone is welcome.