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https://piefed.zip/
What they do once they're here is a completely different topic. If the comparison in this meme helps, let's use it, and let's not disregard users who don't get the email comparison, like you did in your first comment.
I would not recommend that one to people on Reddit - I can see that it does not defederate from either hexbear.net or lemmygrad.ml as piefed.social does, see e.g. https://piefed.zip/c/news@hexbear.net and https://piefed.zip/c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml.
Let's see... piefed.world seems to have defederated from both of them: https://piefed.world/c/acab@lemmygrad.ml does exist but it looks to have been imported once rather than something that is connected continually.
https://piefed.ca/ also has no content or communities from either of them so it too looks to have been defederated, and if you are looking to avoid the lemmy.world mods then that could be a great option, for people currently using Reddit who primarily tend to be from the USA?
Or https://feddit.online/ for anyone located in Europe. All of those are great options and I would suggest to recommend them over piefed.zip.
Of course everything is so new so we don't know so much about how well-maintained those servers are - feddit.online has a lower uptime below 95% but the others are all >99.5% so seem great so far?
Feddit.online is hosted in the US.
Piefed.zip pros (transparency with regular reports, reactive admins) outshine the cons for me. With how Piefed allows user-level instance blocking, not having hb and grad defederated is acceptable.
PieFed.ca is Canada oriented.
Piefed.ca shows All posts by default, to anyone including guests without an account, whereas Lemmy.ca's default was to show only Local - the latter was a huge blocker, so that having changed now on their piefed instance makes all the difference?
I could see promoting lemmy.zip with a warning, similar to how you sometimes used to do with lemm.ee iirc, citing how it did not make moderation choices for the user unlike Reddit. But for a mainstream normie I would avoid it, or again at least put in a word of caution to explain.
PieFed.ca and Lemmy.ca are targeted for Canadian people, it's in the name, the logos, everything. Using that as a default recommendation would bring a lot of non Canadians to those instances, which would dilute the sense of community those instances have, and would be met with hesitation by potential new joiners "I'm not Canadian, why would I join here, isn't there a more generic instance"?
As far as I know, there's no alternative for a reliable EU hosted Piefed reliable instance, so until one shows up, I'm going to stick to piefed.zip
What about PieFed.social? I keep thinking of it as a more experimental instance, but while it may receive updates before any of the others it was you iirc who pointed out to me that it is no longer used as the "test" instance anymore. It defederates from both of those. I forget where it is located though?
I try to not recommend the flagship instance. Not sure about where it's hosted.
But in this case PieFed is so new, it doesn't have anywhere close to the same mod issues as PieFed.World, and if there are no better options... it could be the best among the available choices?