If by “direct traffic” you mean to send them there, then I’d say we don’t need that, and shouldn’t want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if you’re on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least don’t send new people there.
A small instance isn’t going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.
People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people don’t understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They won’t stop when an instance gets too large.
If by “direct traffic” you mean to send them there, then I’d say we don’t need that, and shouldn’t want it. The whole reason federation works is because control is spread out. Giving one, or a few, instances control of most of the content and users is a horrible idea and begging for issues. Speaking of, if you’re on lemmy.world, you should consider spreading elsewhere. At least don’t send new people there.
A small instance isn’t going to grow past PieFed.social in 1 day, let alone an actually big instance like Lemmy.world. If an instance grows too big then we just stop suggesting it and pick a new instance to suggest.
People still direct people to Lemmy.world. A lot of people don’t understand the benefits of federation still and want everyone on one instance. They won’t stop when an instance gets too large.
Well yeah but those aren’t the people reading this thread
I don’t know. I wouldn’t be so sure. It’s a good idea to spread the message anywhere.