Seems accurate. This example is a good one: if you create a community and want it to succeed, you are going to promote it on !newcommunities@lemmy.world. Or maybe you aren't aware of !newcommunities, because you are a now mod, but then it's still useful to have that there.

[–] rglullis 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

On the other hand, I'm see newcommunities being flooded with posts from piefed.social and thinking the following:

If this becomes an automatic thing, I'd be less inclined to subscribe to the community.
How is concentration around piefed.social any different from concentration around LW?

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If this becomes an automatic thing, I’d be less inclined to subscribe to the community.

Well, sure, but that's still the most active community on that topic. And I know because I've been trying to push for !communitypromo@lemmy.ca for years, without success.

How is concentration around piefed.social any different from concentration around LW?

The feature is available for any Piefed instance, there are currently 13 with more than 10 monthly active users: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

Edit: also, Piefed has an instance chooser, if you click on Register, you end up on this page: https://piefed.zip/auth/instance_chooser