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[โ€“] Skavau@piefed.social 26 points 1 day ago (4 children)

We need some new (a couple) of general-use instances to help direct this traffic! Piefed.social will help you and redirect traffic to you.

[โ€“] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago

If by "direct traffic" you mean to send them there, then I'd say we don't need that, and shouldn't want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if you're on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least don't send new people there.

[โ€“] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 13 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

I'm working on getting https://nord.pub/ online!(rebrand from experimental nord.red) Well, it is online but I wanted proper HA, Backups, and some curated Topics.

Hosted in the Nordics and committed to not being dependent on US tech. (using Hetzner Finland and BunnyCDN)

[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 7 points 21 hours ago

Awesome. When you're ready, go to https://nord.pub/admin/instance_chooser and fill in the form.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 18 hours ago

That would be great!

[โ€“] Skavau@piefed.social 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You're going for a general use instance?

[โ€“] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, general use with somewhat if a focus on the Nordics "market", but I'm not planning on launching competing communities against anything existing.

[โ€“] Skavau@piefed.social 7 points 22 hours ago

Sure, but I'm more thinking about increasing server spread across Piefed rather than specific communities as such.

[โ€“] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 17 hours ago

Signed up! I still might stick to this account mainly, but a Nordic oriented Piefed instance is definitely appealing.

[โ€“] biltong@piefed.co.za 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

PieFed.co.za is hosted in Germany

It's kinda geared towards South Africans, but it'll be a place where anyone is welcome. I still need to do some housekeeping though.

[โ€“] cabbage@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I really love that you're building a South African instance!

As much as the influx of Europeans to the fediverse is lovely to see, the European/North American bias here is really striking. That's of course not a problem of too many Europeans, but rather not enough other people.

[โ€“] biltong@piefed.co.za 7 points 23 hours ago

Thanks, it's quite fun to setup and run an instance and helping the community grow. Hopefully I can get a bunch of South African and Africans to join my instance.

But anyone is welcome.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] biltong@piefed.co.za 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, I need to figure that out. You're welcome to be one.

[โ€“] Blaze@piefed.zip 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank you for the offer, but I don't have the sysadmin skills, and I already have a bit too much on my plate as you can guess ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] biltong@piefed.co.za 5 points 1 day ago

Cool Cool, I thought you might already have a lot on your plate

[โ€“] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (3 children)

Yep we already have a bunch of good instances ready to go:

...and ~60 more which seem to be for personal or closed-group use but which could open their doors any time - https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

[โ€“] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

i love living in lgb~~t~~q~~i~~a country

[โ€“] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 17 hours ago

And a million more on the way!

The instance chooser thing is a great addition to PF to help get users distributed across instances.