The linked post shows how most non-tech people’s understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

    • AwesomeLowlanderEnglish
      1•2 days ago

      In general, wouldn’t one of the English speaking instances be a better choice?

      • Blaze (he/him)English
        4•2 days ago

        Long story short, there is no ideal generalist instance. If you open the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)

        • Lemmy.world is too big
        • Lemm.ee is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad, something that is not very welcoming to new users (see this thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28798607/15305964 )
        • sh.itjust.works names contains “shit”, which can deter users
        • lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
        • feddit.org, as you mentioned, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
        • dbzer0 federated hexbear
        • programming.dev is topic-centric (and has a database corruption for the last month https://programming.dev/post/20515601?scrollToComments=true)
        • blahaj is queer-focused
        • discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
        • lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
        • lemmy.zip is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
        • sopuli.xyz doesn’t have “lemmy” or “feddit” in its name
        • beehaw is way outdated
        • infosec.pub is topic-centric
        • aussie.zone is country-centric
        • midwest.social is region-centric

        The next page has reddthat.com which is known to have federation issues with LW due to its location in Australia, and lemmy.today which does not defederate anyone