Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.
The other .ml instances had a .ml free domain. Lemmy.ml paid for the domain so it’s in no danger of losing it.
That’s great!
This graph is actually wrong, lemmy.ml doesn’t have open sign ups, it just appears to because the Lemmy software doesn’t accurately distinguish between open and closed registrations, it only distinguishes between open registrations and application-based registrations. If registrations are closed it’ll look just like they are open, but we’ll just give an error message when you try to sign up which is incredibly deceiving.
I filed an issue to fix this discrepancy on their GitHub.
Another issue with this graph is that it shows lemmy.world as American but it’s actually hosted in Finland.
Canadian and running on 99% renewal energy were all I needed to know to join sh.itjust.works
Also the name is top notch! And it’s been pretty true to it too.
There was a rough week or two there but it’s been good lately. Happy being a part of it though.
I like how the name can be read in 2 ways: shit just works and shh it just works!
I always read it as “shit it just works”
Also two good reasons for me as well.
It’s strange that it doesn’t report a Canadian flag on the graphic in the post heading though. Looks like Netherlands?
Tbf, depending on the region, that’s just how the electricity is made. The fbxl network runs off of electricity generation made up of 86% hydroelectric and biomass, with the balance made up of wind, solar, and natural gas.
As I have repeatedly repeatedly said, with a geography of canada, the entire country could be 100% renewables in a decade or two if there was a real focus on hydroelectric generation that is presently powering entire regions, and it would make people’s lives better in the process with plentiful inexpensive hydroelectric we would make electric heat the most competitive and thus would start offsetting burning fossil fuels for building heat which would have a massive impact on carbon emissions since buildings make up 25% of total emissions and most building heat is done with fossil fuels because electricity is too expensive and the costs are rising so people are migrating to fossil fuels even with the carbon tax…
But I digress…
If it were hosted in Nova Scotia half of its power would come from coal. So I don’t take it for granted
I’m confused why it says it is in the Netherlands
I thought that was the French flag? I figured it got confused by the instance being bilingual.
It probably goes by ip only.
My people!
I do kinda love this name.
is there a canada based domain running under lemm.eh? because if not, there should be.
I have never heard a better idea
.eh isn’t an available top level domain
an outrage!
Based
Oh goody. There’s a [email protected] and it’s not me. And it’s using one of my older profile pictures.
EDIT: 2023/8/29 update – I posted to the lemm.ee support community and the admins decided to disable the account. Well done!
That’s why we disabled the buy-sell-trade community on our niche instance. Nobody got scammed during the short time it was open, but if a username can be duplicated it makes scamming that much easier.
The only bad part about the fediverse, imho, it’s hard to be the only one with your username. What makes it bad is a malicious user, that you may have pissed off somehow, start using your username in a smear campaign to hurt your reputation.
The key is to not attempt to foster a reputation in anonymous social media
True. I try to stay anonymous. But that doesn’t work on all social medias. Take Facebook for example, they show all that info in your profile allowing haters to hate
Facebook is not anonymous social media. It’s spyware to the max
This is true, yet no one wants to listen to reality
You are the only user with the username
[email protected]. Nobody else can have that username.But, [email protected]?
I don’t understand the question.
Capital I and lowercase l look alike.
It’s a play on that joke.
This is true, just like I have an ml account too. But I wouldn’t put past someone to create another account on another instance with efwis and start some shit because I hurt their feelings. So far that hasn’t been an issue but there is a first time. Especially since the username doesn’t show what instance your’re on on the feeds
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Uhhhhh. Yeah this was always something I was worried about with multiple instances. Having multiple usernames run my different people. The @ at the end will be crucial for people keep them separate
Good for them. Glad to see five different ones over 2200.
I need to switch from lemmy.one. we are still stuck with the context bug of18.3
You might have to, it’s been a while
What is that bug? My comment trees are a bit messed up so I might have it too
Cannot access directly a comment from the link
is there a way to transfer my account to another instance? lemmy.world for me is unreliable and slow :/
They’re quick when it comes to defederating lefties. Not so much with toxic right wingers.
In all seriousness though, some apps copy subbed communities. Having a backup lemmy is useful.
I need more data on that first point. Everyone’s defederation rationales and strategies have evolved over the last few months.
Exploding heads was slow. Hexbear was instantaneous.
Read the Hexbear defederation post if you want to see how subjective it actually was.
Don’t get me wrong, commies are badly misguided, but they can hold a good faith rational debate.
I think I’ll have to see how quickly they make a decision on other instances in the future.
The hexbear defederation did seem odd to me since the rationale was the admins there reminding their users to follow other instances rules?
Idk, I’m glad I can still see hexbear comments. I may not agree with them but at least they appear more literate than the exploding heads users.
No, but there are tools that can automatically copy over your subscribed communities.
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.
Nice! The only issue is the extremely small size limit of images, but still a great instance
I really wish they would increase the image size to at least 200 or 300kb to fit larger images. You can get around it by using external image hosting but you can’t do that for banners and profiles.
Damn it, I chose lemm.ee as my backup account (primary is lemmy.world) as it wasn’t the number two…
The reverse Tinkerbell.
We did it!
Wait that wasn’t the point.
Aw man are we gonna have to move?
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.
Oh, I don’t really care about piracy communities. I meant on the basis of it getting big.
People seem to only want their accounts on “general use” instances that are already pretty popular.
Which is… bizarre. There is no downside to having your account on a more niche instance (as long as it isn’t so niche that it gets turned off), and there are arguably disadvantages to having your account on a more popular instance.
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.
That’s the core of every problem that’s occurred to every massive human social structure we’ve ever created in history.
We create systems, the systems become powerful, a small group of autocratic people naturally gravitate towards wanting to lead, the system is taken over by this small group, the system is corrupted, the system fails, the system ends … then we start over again.
It keeps happening over and over again and the common denominator is human greed (either in the need to gain money and wealth … or in the need to just want to gain power over everyone)
The only systems that last are the ones where everyone has an equal stake and a shared power structure. But it’s a balancing game that constantly has to be monitored … because once we stop being vigilant, some greedy idiots will naturally start taking over.
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.
Haven’t noticed any issues, aside from the occasional down time on world.
It’s because instances are defederating from each other.
People want to be where people are. My guess is we’ll end up with a bunch of super instances eventually.
People want to be where people are.
This logic only applies in centralized platforms. In the case of the Fediverse, people are everywhere and anywhere.
But here on lemmy itself we can see people gathering in just a few instances
Not everything happens for a logical reason. It’s human nature to get together in tribes, and the majority of people are okay with just following the pack.
I just hope that eventually more people figure out that there is no significant advantage in being in the largest instances, and that it can be actually harmful (too many resources, potential drama because too much power is given to the admins, etc)
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.
Yeah no exact opposite for me: Big server means lots of user data making abuse of it more appealing and impactful. While an admin of a small instance having some fun digging through user internals would really do no harm (I don’t believe that’s a particularly typical hobby of small instance admins though xD ).
I wouldn’t say no doubt. Some certainly would do that, others could have more integrity.
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 [email protected], 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.
Some apps have that. As for the webui just go to the instances’ site?
Sure you can visit the target instance’s website, but then you have to manually copy and paste
[email protected].I recommend browser plugins
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.
hate to say it, but looks better too
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.
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”.
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.
Getting closer to being ddos’d every six seconds.
They should probably add a % measure to that to show active users as a % of total users to give a more balanced look at active instances
What is felt by users is the absolute number rather than the proportion.
Why not both?
Because when you open and later refresh Lemmy, the quantity of new posts you will see, which gives an idea of Lemmy’s activity, is proportional to the absolute number of active users, not the proportion of active users per instance.
By why not both, I meant why not display both the number of users and the proportion of the total userbase. This does not seem to be an answer to that question.
I thought you asked why wouldn’t both be felt by users. Otherwise, sure both can be displayed, the proportion gives an idea of the dynamic of a community.
Ah, I gotcha.
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Significantly less posts and comments when compared to ML. So, a lurkers instance?
less posts doesn’t really matter. lol. Everything is federated.
Nah, .ml is as old as lemmy itself, while .ee is a really young instance.
That makes sense
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A lot of main communities (especially regarding technology, news and politics) are located in .world and .ml, so users from all instances will participate there.
Oh boy, I can’t wait until everyone defederares from us too. /s
Woah, we grew fast!
lemm.ee has been consistently great for me, wonderful admin too.
Once lemm.ee can host larger images, I believe this will become the best instance on lemmy
one of the reasons it’s fast is because they limit image sizes which lower server load.
