Don't use the word "instance". Don't mention anything. If anyone asks, tell them it's all technical backend stuff that doesn't matter to the end user. Send them to piefed.zip and/or lemmy.zip.

Ah,then it makes sense

This is what I usually do, but sometimes they ask about it specifically or they heard Lemmy is "fragmented"

Indeed. That's why I personally always avoid trying talking to people about instances, and the Fediverse. I just point them to the two links before, and that's it.

The set up here with so much importance on different "instances" and all the "fediverse" talk is all off putting.

That, along with the insane RU propaganda communities like ml is going to send people looking for somewhere else.

Yeah I've been kind of struggling with what words to use as well. For now I've been using instances only, never mentioning servers and emphasize the connectedness.

I kind of conflicted. On the one hand, I don't mind too much. This might be slightly mean and non inclusive but this is filtering and gatekeeping and maybe that's okay.

On the other hand I do want more less techy users in to populate the less techy communities. This slows down the joining rate.

Just drop the instance concept altogether. Point them to old piefed zip and piefed zip (not sure if Reddit blacklists the links) and let them figure it out.

Is there any app that let's you aggregate the different servers, so I can read content from multiple as if it was one site?

We need better messaging lol. This is why I don't like the word "instances" or "servers", I prefer "gateways" or "access points"

Definitely!

My respect and sympathies to everyone out there fighting the good fight in the comments.

Like the motto

Yeah people have old opinions on Lemmy, at this point it might be easier to hook them with PieFed cause it's new

I guess... But I know a fair number of people, smart and well-educated, who take retail or service or trades jobs even tho they could get better-paid corporate gigs.

No, it is a metaphor for the uneducated/uninformed and uninterested in said. I rub shoulders with everyone irl, I'm not elitist. But it's about to get exhaustingly dumb in here

Suggest: "Piefed, it's like Lemmy but ALIVE!"

sewer workers and 7-Eleven clerks

You mean The Working Class? They'll fit right in!

That's a compelling reason to be here: The tsunami of carefully-shaped-propaganda and bot sewage that is the home-feed. People want out of that.

I'm not clicking that link or going to Reddit...

But today I open Facebook because I sell a lot of shit on Marketplace....

There it was in my general news feed... All the top comments were talking about Lemmy.

This place is about to be overrun with sewer workers and 7-Eleven clerks.

Some of them will still give it a try

users don't join ⇄ not enough users

It's unfortunate a lot of those mentions are self-fulfilling defeatist ones like "Lemmy, but it's dead compared to Reddit".

That's my excuse to still having a reddit account lol

No but actually some of the hobby subs I follow over there I am too lazy to help build here. I'd comment occasionally, just like this, but that's a far as I go most of the time.

lol, just in case someone wants to help recruit Redditors to the Fediverse

Is posting two links to reddit with this argument some kind of meta humor?