I've tried several time to point people to instance choosers, 9 times out of 10 people reply "I don't want to have to choose, can't you just suggest one for me?"

That's why I ended up pointing to that one.

Also, Piefed has quite a few features that Lemmy currently misses: https://join.piefed.social/features/

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i think lemmy shouldn't devolve into a feature-bloated monstrosity.

i've made the experience consistently in my life that the software that's still around after more than 30 years is mostly the software that's very simple and stable, no new features added after a while. Consider linux command line programs like wget and mkdir. Programs should do one thing and do it well, i believe.

meanwhile feature-creep slowly kills programs like cancer. consider notepad which got tabs, dark theme, and now it's a 300 MB memory-consumption electron-based web browser with a text editor.

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

Crosspost comments consolidation comes up regularly as an issue, Piefed solves it: https://piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/668091/the-problem-of-cross-community-posting#post_replies

Same for actual instance blocking

Lemmy 1.0 will offer similar features: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/3386

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I think advertising a single instance makes it less confusing for the Reddit users, if you give them a link to make them choose then they get analysis paralysis

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

analysis paralysis

ooh I like that term, I'ma use it. Funny thing, I'd been on lemmy for over a year when I decied to make a mastodon account to participate in watch parties. I understood the basics of federation. and I KNEW it didn't really matter what instance I made an account on, but it still took me over a month to make an account because of analysis paralysis.

[–] tlmcleod@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

But when you drive everyone to one instance you end up with things like mastodon.social where they're nearly 50% of the whole, which is decidedly not good. I dunno if lemmy/piefed has that problem or not though. As long as everyone isn't suggesting the same instance it should be alright

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

lemmy.world is the biggest in the Threadiverse by FAR, as long as we aren't suggesting that instance then it's fine

piefed.zip (the one Blaze suggested) is a drop in the bucket of the Threadiverse population, it's relatively small

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago

https://piefed.zip/about has 105 monthly active users

lemmy.world has 14500

I could point 10k new joiners to piefed.zip, it would still be smaller than lemmy.world

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe the issue is the lack of full portability. If an instance die you lose all your content

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Your content is still federated on other instances: https://piefed.zip/c/movies@lemm.ee