Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Threadi is too small for that, if was had 2 million MAUs (50% English / 50 % other langues), what you are proposing would be semi-viable.
Between Lemmy / Piefed / Mbin, er have something like ~50 K MAUs tops.
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So the recommended unit can be the nearest server with any critical mass. If you’re in Greece you get pushed to whatever’s the leading
.grserver. Ultimately it doesn’t matter much since we can all interact with everything via federation. My point is that this might responsibilize users more, and encourage communities to overlap with the offline world a bit more - a place where community is very much needed right now.Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 6 days ago
But then you have the question of what do you define as critical mass and which specialized instances to exclude.
Don’t get me wrong, I support your idea and I generally think an instance should always be pre-selected for a new user (with an option to pick your own). Some of it should definitely be based on geo/regional factors.