Lemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance!

came from reddit. lemmy principles seem to align with me open for everyone and communities run their own instance if required

Why does lemmy.world, the largest instance, not simply eat the other instances?

Then it would just be Reddit all over again.
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Centralization is bad
So we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users... for free... Hmm yes that's going to work.

People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies.

We're in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it's not going to last.
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- I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!

I am happy to contribute! I think it's time for me to move on from Reddit. I am excited to help this platform grow and become something great - I just need to become less of a lurker.

Former lurkers unite!
- Was a reddit lurker for years and became a massive contributor.
  
  I am looking forward to continuing thag momentum. Heh.

Nope! This is the biggest lemmy instance now! Fun!

44.2K users, 1 community, 0 posts!

Now that's only a little sus
- robots need community too! /s

But... is that even a good thing? I mean, the point of the fediverse is to distribute the load across instances.

The upside is join-lemmy.org always puts the smaller but growing instances at the top to somewhat distribute the load for new users. Also there are new general purpose instances popping up, I quite like it and as long as there is no drama you can access most of the Fediverse from almost any instance.
The point is that everyone CAN start an instance and become bigger. It's the users that decide.
- I like this way of putting it. It’s like that post that was around a few days ago discussing lemmy as being “CEO-proof”.
  
  It’s not really I guess, but if an instance got big and started being unfriendly/unreasonable to users they could just go to another instance and still be part of the federation.
If it gets too much they can just stop letting people join, can't they? I think for the beginning a little bit of centralizing will make stuff easier. For the long run it might be less desirable.

99.5% uptime is very impressive for a community that is experiencing such explosive growth.

Awesome!

Nice numbers there. I just wanted an instance with IPv6 already enabled and randomly landed on lemmy.world. No regrets :)

I did read that @Ruud said in a post that Lemme.world can handle 1 million users as of right now.

He hopes that other instances get more traction so the crowds are distributed.

Go daddy

That's because I brought snacks, who doesn't like the most finger friendly food?

the little engine that could

I got bombarded by ads for this recently: is that the Jack in the Box clown? Or just a generic one?
- It's a generic clown. The Little Engine That Could is a classic children's novel.

Please someone tell me how to delete accounts off of memmy app it drives me nuts seeing both because it loads the one I don’t want to load.

Add that as a feature request on his GitHub. If you don’t know how to I’ll do it for you
- Alternatively the discord server just got a feedback channel, you can suggest it there

Nice, what is this k6qw instance about, though? So many users and just 1 community without any posts?

It does seem a little out of balance. We should ask @gaylord@lemmy.k6qw.com how/why they're personally reviewed 38,000 email-less sign up statements in under 7 days and who they think is populating his server (according to one of his posts from a week ago).

(not sure my tag syntax was correct.... maybe @gaylord@lemmy.k6qw.com autolinking works?)

Glad to be part of this new phenomenon. Long live Lemmy.

This is due to bots. Not organic growth.

There's an awful amount of engagement for it to all be bots. Unless I too am a bot?
- We are all bots on this blessed day!
ruud is on it, no bots here. relax and enjoy the ride. :)

Any idea how many might be bots?

I don't think we have that many. The instances that were victims of bot attacks grew by more than 10k in less than a day. This instance's growth has been steady at 1k~2k per day with the captcha enabled.
- The captcha seems to be protecting the bigger, older instances, it's all new instances that you've never heard of that randomly have 10k+ bot accounts.
  
  https://the-federation.info/platform/73#drawer-opened
  
  If you scroll to the list of servers and sort by total users, you can see dozens of ghost servers with thousands of accounts and like 10 active users. Alternatively, leave it on the default sorting to see all of the servers that actually have activity.
  
  Should be pretty easy to defederate those instances if the bots start causing problems.
- I believe we also have one of the best active users to total user ratios in the 'Lemmyverse', at least for instances of this size. Fun stuff.

Over in kbin.social.. wondering if there will be a simple way to consolidate duplicate magazines/communities

It'd be interesting to have metamagazines or something along the like. There's a lot of repeat mags out there that would benefit from an easy way to share/federate at a smaller scale than per-instance.
- I'd like something in this vein to view multiple communities of the same topic at once (like folders/multi-reddits/etc.) too.
  
  Another idea, if possible, might be to have Lemmy search for existing communities/magazines in linked instances as you're trying to make a community, similar to how it searches for already posted links, so that folks are given a heads up to those existing communities. If they want to go on to make their own local version then it's just up to them.

Damn it, I specifically joined this one because it was less popular.

Oh well lol

Me too! Damn kids, get off our lawn!
- The future is here, old man.

obligatory it's inevitable

it's impossible for me to see this image without picturing that dog's face in the dust storm

edit: for the uninformed
- Woah how the hell did you do that arrow

I've seen more bigger communities on here than the ml instance

More bigger they do be

Now can we defederate the .ml tankies?

"Yay we're winning the race!" shoots the engine

Unfortunately I don't have much faith in this social network until the bot issue is addressed. There is a huge contingent of spambots just waiting for their moments here.

Spam bots or spam servers? Everyone is saying regulate signups for servers but anyone can spin up a Lemmy server and spam with thousands of accounts until they are defedarated. Then 5 minutes later do it again with a new server. It’s not hard to setup a Lemmy server.
- Yeah, a nice feature of federation is that real communities can adjust their sign-up processes to minimize bot sign-ups, and while determined botfarms can spin up their own servers, that leads to pretty much the least controversial use case for admins to block another server.
  
  Mastodon's run into similar issues in the past with both bots and scrapers and typically no one has any issue with admins there defederating and entirely blocking those servers.
- I actually think this is a non-issue , sure it will be a pain for a while but the decentralized model will easily adapt to this IMO. Its not like reddit was immune from bots eh.
  
  An example is how obviously you can spot the bad actors here. I do not think is will be any more challenging indeed I think it will be easier to counter

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