While the other recommendation in the thread are good, I think they are hard to implement things that will take time.

A quick fix solution can be to add a button on join-lemmy which says something like ‘Confused on where to join? click to join a recommended instance’ that redirects to the sign-up of one of the recommended instances (there is already a list).

This will allow for load balancing and easier time for people to just come and join.

You’re doing great work man! Thanks for making this

Yea I think it’s broken right now

He really sound like ‘fuck it I’ll just improvise and get this shit over with’ from his answers.

Is there a link where I can see the mastodon numbers? New to fediverse and interested in knowing whats happening with mastodon.