And not join-lemmy.org, that's confusing. Just pick one of the larger servers like lemm.ee or fedia.io and tell people to browse it and click "Sign Up" if they like it.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Don't forget lemmy.fiftyfifty.one , ani.social, programming.dev and lemmynsfw.com

Also Canada and Germany have fairly large servers. Politely promote whatever fits the context and let people know having multiple accounts on different servers is 100% cool 😎

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 53 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'd recommend a smaller community to help spread the load. I originally signed up on .world but they were having some growing pains (And a disgruntled idiot ddosing them) so I moved to .ca which helped tremendously.

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really disagree. For learning lemmy for average people, big instance is best.

There is a point where people who stick around are likely to make a new "real" account on a different smaller server, after they know what they want to browse.

Basically big instances should be like training wheels.

[–] tryagain@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah tbh this is how I did it and I consider myself tEcH sAvVy - still started with .world because I didn't know where else to go.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I went to iusearchlinux.fyi and came back to .world about a week ago. It seems to be doing very well now.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You need to know the special password for .ca

[–] Waffles@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is it "sorry"?

[–] Sinnz@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

„Eh“

[–] tryagain@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Dot see eh?

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm Canadian anyway, so I have it memorized.

[–] Woodie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello Canadian, I’m maple syrup!

[–] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We may be related, I'm 40% maple.

[–] Woodie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

I see! I’m actually 33% polar bear and 66% maple, we may be not so distant cousins!

[–] millionsofplayers@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

maybe start posting links from lemmy like what happened with digg (i think? wasn't there for it)