Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
Damn it, I chose lemm.ee as my backup account (primary is lemmy.world) as it wasn’t the number two…
The reverse Tinkerbell.
lemm.ee best instance 100%
100%
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.
100%
Isn’t that the one that censors the word “bitch”?
Are you thinking of beehaw.org?
Nawh, I’m the instance had a “lem” prefix of some sort.
I’m gonna go with no, since I’m reading it perfectly currently.
Hmmm, maybe that’s .ml then.
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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Noooooooooooo. Don’t get too big or that’ll just paint a target on our server for the DDOS attacks!
stop growing I don’t want to move instances again 🫠
I see only two ways for this to stop happening:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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
goddammit
i joined dxcomplex because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
then it folded so i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name)i’m starting to wonder if i’m cursed
Wtf go away
but what if going away makes it worse? .world’s downtime has only increased since i made my l.ee acct
Lol same, I joined FMHY first because I wanted in on a smaller instance. I now self host. Fool me once.
Now you’ll fold when you’re damn good and ready!
Exactly 😂
You are become death
Well then, please post where you’re gonna go next so we can avoid your trail.
well actually, i did recently make a backup acct. on lemmy.dbzer0.com…
Well that’s not great for me then
If you want an instance that almost definitely won’t go under, sdf.org has existed since
19861987 and has an instance at lemmy.sdf.orgactually 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
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I get your point, but I think lemm.ee is still so much smaller than lemmy.world that it’s not much of a problem (at least not yet).
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…
Oh boy, I can’t wait until everyone defederares from us too. /s
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.
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!
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.
It is good for the threadiverse
Che, that means drama incoming.
Che, that means drama incoming.
Beehaw hasn’t been in the news lately…
Can We Not !
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
Where’s lemm.ee located physically?
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This was asked in the lemm.ee discord and the answer given is below.
Ping times are low everywhere because the files we serve are hosted on globally distributed servers. So if you’re in North America, you will download the frontend code (and images etc) from a North American server. But the backend is actually hosted in Germany
Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring.
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.
Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you’re concerned though.
It’s just using cloudflare. So likely your private data is just temporarily stored on the CloudFlare node in your region and in Germany.
So which country’s laws apply to user generated content?
“were using a rock bottom VPS out of germany with cloudlfare”
