That's the beauty of multiple instances. As long as people push heading to join-lemmy.org over any one particular instance, things should be mostly okay.

[–] ghostinthewires@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago

I signed up from prgrmaming.dev and I really like the function of being able to sign up within a different community that you can choose.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

Yep, if they can find a smaller, specialised, or localised instance it is better for the network for them to join that and learn to subscribe to others rather than lumping on one big server.

It's just a little awkward for new users to subscribe and navigate across instances at the moment, but new features and "gasp" third party apps can make that easier.

[–] passport@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On the other hand sending people to a list of servers that includes stuff like lemmygrad and yiffit pretty high on the list is... a potential turnoff

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 5 points 2 years ago

There is https://lemmyverse.net/ as an alternative, I don't see any immediately shady communities in the top of the listing. Though it does put lemmy.ml as #1, which isn't ideal since it'd probably draw a lot of people right to it.

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

I prefer https://lemmyverse.net

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I prefer https://lemmyverse.net/communities