Lemmy's total users exceeds 740k today, up from 540k yesterday

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=7

In other news, Sync is coming to Lemmy.

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I kind to want to jump to a smaller instance
- I self host! Very nice having an instance all to myself.
  
  I'm planning to self host - but just have one question, mostly a confirmation, as long as you're not hosting communities, you can comment and interact with others, without needing other instances to explicitly sync with your insurance, right?
  I kind of want my own instance just to control what communities I sync for my own account, but not going to host any myself, so defederation of some instances doesn't affect me (unless I myself want to block them)
  
  This is exactly what I'm doing and it has been working great so far.
  
  Do the big instances need to give permission, to your self-hosted instance, to read and post on their communities?
  Do those instance owners need to manually approve access from some unknown small instance?
  
  No. In both cases, they'd either have to manually block federation to your instance, or be operating on a whitelist-only federation basis.
  Once you spin up your own instance and browse around a bit/subscribe to some communities, wait a bit, and then click on the "Instances" link at the bottom of the page and you'll see a bunch of instances that will have automatically federated.
  
  That sounds correct to me.
  
  Same here. I love owning my own identity.
  
  How do you self host? Is the always free AWS package an option to do this?
- You could self host :)
  
  I aim to self-host myself, one of these days. I'm having analysis paralysis picking a VPS tho, because I'll want to move my other online socials there too.
  
  Use Docker or Ansible or something, so that migrating between VPSs is easy.
  (Also, if you're solid, what does that make me?!)
  
  LiquidGrue doesn't quite have the same ring to it
  
  (Also, if you’re solid, what does that make me?!)
  Liquid, Gas or Plasma, mate. 🙃
- i really love the smaller communities, going to be so interesting to see how they all evolve and interact. Anyone that hasn't i really recommend going to the various other smaller instances just to look and get a feel for them, it's a great way to find interesting communities and you can subscribe from the instance you're on (assuming its federated).

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