Definitely

We’ve had disagreements in the past, but I can’t agree with you more in this case. It’s the entire point

But why not use your main account? Creating an alt just for this question seems strange

2 hours account, based on the other comments this seems to be borderline trolling

Nowadays I just recommend Piefed.zip.

If someone wants a regional instance they usually figure it out by themselves, also the Piefed instance chooser can help and has a latency indicator: https://piefed.social/post/1337079

For the nationale behind, here’s a list from a post on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com that’s a few months old https://lemmy.zip/c/fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com?dataType=Post&pageCursor=P2d1f586&sort=NewComments

• Lemmy.world is too big
• sh.itjust.works names contains “shit”, which can deter users
• lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
• feddit.org, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
• dbzer0 is focus centric
• programming.dev is topic-centric
• blahaj is queer-focused
• discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
• lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
• beehaw defederates LW and SJW
• infosec.pub is topic-centric
• aussie.zone is country-centric
• midwest.social is region-centric and admin can power trip at times (https://sopuli.xyz/post/20038037)

You’re correct, on top of that !languagesettings@lemmy.zip

there needs to be some rough guide on making your community federated and then advertising it effectively so communities can get that early kick.

We can draft something on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

This burns people out. Key moderators of communities quit and communities become abandoned.

Are you referring to something specific? I haven’t seen a trend of a lot of mods quitting, modding is just not that attractive in the first place

Piefed offered more features (still does) when lemm.ee shut down.

There weren’t that many instances at the time but I just created !newcomers@piefed.zip to decentralize

!movies@piefed.social and !television@piefed.social hopefully took over

I mod quite a few of those, most of them were on lemm.ee

Another reminder to decentralize I guess

Admins usually don’t want to allow direct registrations without email validation as it makes it too easy for spammers

!lemmyapps@lemmy.world

Provider doesn’t really have any downside

https://piefed.zip/communities?search=&home_select=any&subscribe_select=any&topic_id=0&feed_id=0&language_id=0&instance=&sort_by=active_weekly+desc

“Active people” is weekly active users

Seems better now

Thanks for sharing

Piefed has multiple ways of pulling in comms an instance doesnt yet know about. The newest version for example pulls in comms that have been posted on !newcommunities@lemmy.world

https://piefed.zip/comment/1546001

https://chat.piefed.social/#narrow/stream/10-mods-.2F-community-building/topic/Lemmy-federate/near/4751

think there is a problem when you have the likes of !christianity@lemmy.world being downvote brigaded to the point that it actually is unfairly balancing the posts due to the slim minority of Christians on here.

Are you and the other mods aware that you can see who downvotes, and potentially ban systematic downvoters? That’s a topic that is regularly debated, but I guess in your case it could be useful?