Haha wow. What an effective way to describe it.

Long term, I agree – the whole point of the fediverse is to distribute the user base, moderation capacity, etc. Initially though, we’re just trying to make it as easy as possible to for folks to discover lemmy and use it.

Sending them on a wild goose chase to find an instance and sign up complicates that. Getting them to come back the next day is also way harder when that experience sucks.

Yeah – its gonna be a while. Gonna post in some of the ones that do exist and see if I can help develop them.

/r/welding /r/machinists /r/cherokeexj /r/jeep made it though (and some wrangler community… so, yay?)