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

You're going for a general use instance?

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

That would be great!

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.

Do you have another admin?

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

• https://quokk.au/ - southern hemisphere
• https://piefed.zip/ - uk
• https://feddit.online/ - usa
• https://piefed.ca/ - canada
• https://piefed.blahaj.zone/ - lgbqa
• https://piefed.europe.pub/ - europe
• https://pf.korako.me/ - japan
• https://nord.pub/ - norway

...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

A small instance isn't going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.