Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance

but what if going away makes it worse? .world's downtime has only increased since i made my l.ee acct

well actually, i did recently make a backup acct. on lemmy.dbzer0.com...

Now you’ll fold when you’re damn good and ready!

actually i almost went for sdf instead of l.ee. the reason i didn't was that it seems almost too good to be true? i see so many sites around that proclaim they're hosted on sdf, the biggest text on their homepage says "create a free account" and yet there isn't a donate button

i realise there's one on their lemmy instance, and i might choose them if l.ee does fold, but i felt like i was taking advantage of something meant for others

yeah you're right, but i'm not (just) being funny when i said that - lemmy.world had only just started when i joined (10 days), still had the old (much nicer) icon and no banner, etc. it had 188 users / month, compared to .ml's (at the time) 1.8k and lemm.ee's (current, according to the above infographic) 3.7k...

actually this is incredible how fast it grew

I don't care what anyone says I will always read it as start rek

In this version of the meme she's actually from an alien culture where it's considered rude not to kiss someone and squeeze their butt after accepting a medal. Their version of "bless you" after a sneeze.

I swear to god it's in the show somewhere look it up.

People want to be where people are. My guess is we’ll end up with a bunch of super instances eventually.

One big thing that hasn't changed from reddit is that lemmy instances are still based on an autocratic power structure. Whether or not your content gets seen or you get to see other content depends on the relationships between those leaders. That means choosing your leadership is of utmost importance, and I eventually settled on lemm.ee because it was the first instance I came across that both a) seemed like it had actual adults running the show, and b) was large enough for that leadership have already faced some challenges and have an established track record.

That's the downside to a niche instance.

A slight advantage to big servers is the increase in anonymity on the backend. Given the server admins can do what ever that want. An admin on small server would no doubt be looking into who and where their individual users are. Big severs are more likely to become more population based. Doesn't really matter though I suppose.

A good 40% of users are spread out on servers with less then 5% of the overall user base, but that is still a good 60% in the top 5 instances, considering how laggy lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are, I am surprised anyone stays on them.

Smaller instances take longer to load content from bigger instances.

I have a kbin account and a lemmy account, but I find myself more active on lemmy because it's faster to load new content.

It's not easy to see the list of all communities in an instance you don't have an account. If I login and federate as user@example.com, I can see all the local communities inside example.com, but not others like lemmy.world. I don't mean individual posts or an individual community, I mean list of all instance communities. I think this is one of high priority issues to be patched.

it's not that bizarre; people want easy and people don't seem to really understand how it works so they'd rather go where the most people are or the one that is "trending".

I've found that sometimes old posts don't propagate to newer servers. So if you want to participate in a old thread, you need another account.

The disadvantage of being on a small instance is that you could have an admin who is a fucking moron and ends up breaking stuff because they don't know what they are doing.

Sauce: am admin. am fucking moron.

If they ever defederate from piracy communities, yeah, but I don't think so, admin has a very anti defederate policy, so I see this scenario very hard to occur.

one of the reasons it's fast is because they limit image sizes which lower server load.

That's great!

I see only two ways for this to stop happening:

• Instance admins make a collective pact to close registrations if their instance reaches x% of the total active base, and only open again when this number goes down to x/2%. I think x=10 would be a good start.
• Instead of donations, instances start charging for access after a certain number. This is what my instance is doing: the first 250 active users are free, after that payment is required.

Why not both?

The key is to not attempt to foster a reputation in anonymous social media

You are the only user with the username Efwis@lemmy.zip. Nobody else can have that username.

I'm gonna go with no, since I'm reading it perfectly currently.

Are you thinking of beehaw.org?

I think the beauty of Fediverse is that the majority of people can find pretty amazing instances for themselves. I could say the same of mine.

"were using a rock bottom VPS out of germany with cloudlfare"

Do you know if personal data (like emails, IP addresses) is also distributed across the world? I mean, this is important from the privacy perspective. Different countries have different rules.

So which country's laws apply to user generated content?

Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring.

I made one such tool!

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

I know there's also a python script out there and a new Android app that has active syncing. I don't have links handy to those on mobile.

You lose comment history and all that jazz too but it's better than nothing. I'm not sure if devs plan to implement a way to do it but it's one of the reasons I decided to roll my own instance. Nothing more frustrating than using someone else's and losing access while they take days to get it back up.

I need more data on that first point. Everyone's defederation rationales and strategies have evolved over the last few months.

People will gravitate to those instances run by talented devs.

Eh, people gravitate to where everyone else is. Half of the fediverse doesn't realize federation means, you can read/post to most communities from most instances, bar federation issues. They see, OH HEY, Lemmy World has the most posts. I want to go where all of the posts are.

People RUN from instances, whenever the instance starts breaking, and the admins show their ineptitude. Either that, or when instances start clicking the defederation button too much.