I think overtime one generalist instance will rise above the rest

isn’t that lemmy.ml/lemmy.world? especially lemmy.world as it’s trying to be reddit 2.

in the meantime it’s just weird enough that I think you’ll lose some people back to reddit.

being unable to stay out of comfort zone for long moment

I feel like Lemmy is a lot closer to a functional replacement for reddit then mastodon is for Twitter

why do you say so?

But it’s still weird enough to be hard to recommend.

weird doesn’t mean bad, you know.

personally i think getting your wife to have a lemmy.ml account would be the best, because i doubt most lemmy instances have lemmy.ml blocked (as opposed to lemmygrad.ml), so she would have more choices when it comes to engaging in communities/posts from different instances.

hexbear is a leftist lemmy instance just like the 'grad, but it’s more casual (though sometimes gets heated) than the grad.