I want to make some videos, but I do not want to add them to TY, I am looking for an alternative, unfortunately I know Vimeo, but this is not what I am looking for.

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  • KatherinaReichelt@feddit.orgEnglish
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    9 小時前

    The thing is that instances do not matter that much in the fediverse. But those instance directories are trying to steer users to instances that might fit their profile. Take a look at how Lemmy is doing it:

    So I seem to have to chose here: If I’m a FOSS interested LGBT from Canaca, do I go to lemmy.ml, lemmy.ca or blahaj.zone? If I’m german and interested in computers, is it feddit.org or lemmy.zip or dbzer0.com? Or is a general purpose instance better? You are really losing users here.

    (I’m not going into the issue that some of those instances should really not be recommended to new users at all)

    Mastodon has a different problem: Too many small niche instances, which might sound interesting to new users, but which have low activity and will switch off in a few months.