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Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)
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The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why on Earth would a newbie join a small instance? How would they even find out about one?

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Assuming they search Lemmy, and one of top results is the join-lemmy page (second result for me, below Lemmy.world), the server recommendation tool can suggest small instances with only a couple hundred members. For instance, if one selects Art as the topic and English as the language.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oof.