• Demigodrick
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    232 years ago

    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

    • oce 🐆
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      22 years ago

      What is felt by users is the absolute number rather than the proportion.

        • oce 🐆
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          2 years ago

          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.

          • @[email protected]
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            12 years ago

            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.

            • oce 🐆
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              22 years ago

              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.

  • @[email protected]
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    242 years ago

    Noooooooooooo. Don’t get too big or that’ll just paint a target on our server for the DDOS attacks!

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

        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.

  • RickRussell_CA
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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!

    • walden
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      122 years ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years ago

      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.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          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

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          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

    • @[email protected]
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      122 years ago

      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

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼
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    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

  • unalivejoy
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    132 years ago

    Oh boy, I can’t wait until everyone defederares from us too. /s

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years ago

    Nice! The only issue is the extremely small size limit of images, but still a great instance

    • Draconic NEO
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      62 years ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    402 years ago

    I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.

    • @[email protected]
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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

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 years ago

          Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you’re concerned though.

        • @[email protected]
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          92 years ago

          It’s just using cloudflare. So likely your private data is just temporarily stored on the CloudFlare node in your region and in Germany.

      • trashcan
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        12 years ago

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