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Adding to that: there is no need to go into detail about the fediverse and how it connects to other instances and mastodon and all that.
For a newcomer, the most important thing is to get their feet wet. Introduce them to ONE instance. kbin.social and lemmy.world are my favorites to introduce to people because it's relatively easy to signup and there is a decent amount of content/activity.
Once they're comfortable poking around, that's when you start talking about instances.
If you start off by telling them to pick an instance, their eyes are going to glaze over. Pick one for them. If they really prefer another instance, great, they can create a new account when they feel strongly enough about it themselves.
I'm pretty tech and understand how federation works, but the analysis paralysis of picking a server still made me decide against making an account when I first looked into Lemmy. I strongly agree - just send them to a single sign-up page, (mostly) doesn't matter which. There isn't even karma, so if they decide they want to be on another server once they're familiar there isn't much to lose.
I agree wholeheartedly.
Personally I think lemmy.world makes an excellent landing/containment Instance, but I can see a case for it not being appropriate for all. We're basically just creating reddit here. If reddit bothered you too much, you may as well just defederate us now. It would be appropriate.