kbin.social was the first thing on the recommended list.

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    okay the only thing is, I’m not sure if it’s a good idea to keep making instance names that don’t start with kbin.___ because then if kbin/lemmy really do take off, it would be so hard to google search for them. You can’t do the site:kbin.* search if those instances with different names make magazines/communities and you can’t find them with that google filter

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      I don’t necessarily disagree, I don’t see it happening though unfortunately. The whole idea with federation is for people to make their own instances or to fork the software from the original so they can do their thing. The whole idea being “freedom to do what you want.” Telling people what to name their websites/instances likely won’t fly with the instances owners

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        that’s fair, since the instance owners are hosting for us. The only thing is, I feel like the users might not know about this. I didn’t really think about it until a little later that oh yeah, there is no [search for something “fediverse”] google search, and we’re encouraged to join new instances and for the most part think of them as just servers to build the fediverse. I know I shouldn’t try to box the fediverse ideas like reddit, but I am finding it frustrating that the decentralization is having these cons.

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          I think we just need more tools to help with that. Like website to show all communities across all kbin and Lemmy instances or a place that we can advertise instances for new users. The way things currently are certainly makes it difficult for discoverability (even for experienced fediverse users it can be difficult to discover new stuff, you don’t know what you don’t know)

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            I do see them adding a page to see everything, and it definitely could help new users find communities