reporting for duty to join the revolution. thank you for hosting us!!
I also got a couple of "you broke reddit" pages trying to follow the post. So even reddit servers couldn't keep up with how made people are. And this is on a Friday, traditionally the day to do things you do not want noticed.
Maybe we should agree on a default landing server, and throw it on a scaling AWS instance?
You could also just have a website that 1. Selects a random instance from the ones currently available and up and 2. Shows all instances and whether they are up or down. This would encourage new users to not all pile on to the same instance.
I'm not very knowledgeable about this stuff (what's a docker? What's a kubernetes? Lol) but I don't think as of right now with Lemmy, kbin, etc you can just throw a bigger single server at the problem. Anyways, that's kinda against the purpose of decentralization anyway. I know you're supposed to pick a server based on what one you like, rules or whatever but right now they're pretty much all equivalent (except lemmygrad, lol)
Surely not a random instance. Lots of instances are niche or have more strict requirements on the user, even if they're public.
I'm saying again, there should be a way for instances to better propagate their interests/philosophy/politics/communitues and for the user to pick one based on that.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Should work for that, they just need to have a good newbie page with a curated selection of generic servers at the top, with a random one selected, maybe based on location?
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