There is perennial discussion about what fediverse servers (Lemmy or otherwise) to recommend to new users. I have a proposal, perhaps not very original but I haven't seen it made often.

Let's just recommend that newbies pick an instance that is located close to them geographically. That's to say: their country, their region, or (ideally) their town.

Some context. Personally, I am not totally sold on social media, federated or otherwise. The evidence is now pretty clear that it causes major social harms. One way it does this is by fuelling polarization around hot-button national and international debates, at the expense of local issues. Reviving democracy is going to mean boosting communities at a local level. This could be a small way to do that.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

I disagree. You are just supporting that platform and it's built to silo you so you will feel like you ke you are being heard but you will never reach "the masses". Stay here, help build the fediverse, welcome people with open arms and make this a place people want to come. If we really believe this is both batter and scalelable, we need to keep building and more will come.