Or something that goes a bit deeper onto each instance and explains them better? I have a mutual on mastodon that I recommended Lemmy to, and tried to link join-lemmy.org/instances, but it doesn’t really do much to warn about hexbear/lemmygrad/.ml/etc. Those instances are defederated from a LOT of lemmy and i don’t want my moot to sign up there and not even know that they’re not really experiencing the Lemmy experience that I’m recommending.
I don’t wanna start a war in the comments about instance dramas, I just wanna find a better resource to recommend Lemmy as a ‘reddit alternative’ -w-
How about pointing them at Piefed instead?
You could point them to the instance chooser. It’s on every piefed instance but is decentralized so may be different on different instances, here’s piefed.social: https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser
Piefed has all the same content but a different feature set and worse app support, but app support is growing.
Piefed uses a social credit system
Just don’t choose piefed.social. Rimu made a few quite questionable decisions to say the least.
oh that’s right! I forgot about piefed. I would like to switch but this is my 3rd account switching instances and I’m not excited about starting all over again 🙁
Piefed and Lemmy can both import your settings (including subscriptions) from another account.
Piefed can important Lemmy subscriptions/settings as well, but Lemmy can only do Lemmy I think.
You can’t bring your posts/comments but you don’t have to start from scratch.
Edit: typo
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