Exactly. That’s the “not addressing the actual problems” part. It’s a sounds-good, feels-good, low impact, high visibility token effort. Throw out a little morsel for the general public that doesn’t really help, but critically, doesn’t impact profits for the wealthy class.
Yeah, this is one of the main problems impeding lemmy’s growth. Normies don’t care about “instances.”
Maybe there needs to be some rough IP geolocating to just pick one for them and redirect.