Lemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance!

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

Then it would just be Reddit all over again.
I try to avoid eating sh.it, but you do you.
- I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
is there a !woosh for the replies to your comment?
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.
- Let's have a mass organized bake sale. We'll call the lemon squares "Lemmy Squares". People will love it.
- I don't think a Wikipedia-style donation system would be bad. It's better than ads.
- I'm sure how the ecosystem of Lemmy will play out is that there are a handful, maybe 6 or 7, main instances that require funding and are simply massive with teams committed to them. Then you have the niche medium sized instances that are known for a particular community or two, such as an instance that is well known for its great vegetarian community or whatever. Then you'll have tiny instances that are used by irl friend groups, or for simply tech savvy people that want a home base instance that they can control.
  We're already sort of set up like this, but less organized and smaller overall. Many instances have duplicates of the same communities right now which I think will slowly fade away as future updates make it easier to visit/search other instances.
Centralization is bad
I'd upvote this comment twice if I could. :D
This this originate from Friends or did they reference some other movie thingy?
- Pretty sure it's from Futurama.
- Nope, that was a Futurama original.

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

obligatory it's inevitable

it's impossible for me to see this image without picturing that dog's face in the dust storm
- Woah how the hell did you do that arrow
- Strange, the spoiler doesn't work for me. I just see "::: spoiler" then the image.

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

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.
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.
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.

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

Oh well lol

@OlgratinMagmatoe I joined kbin.social for the same reason, yet...
@1337tux
Me too! Damn kids, get off our lawn!
- The future is here, old man.

For some reason, when I tried to sign up for another instance, it wouldn't send the confirmation emal or load when I tried to send it. I guess this is the only working instance that is easy to get to.

For me, it's because the password I entered didn't meet the minimum requirements. The instance signup page had some kind of issue with actually letting me know that was the problem, it just gave me the spinning pinwheel forever. I refreshed and tried changing the password to something more complex and it worked instantly

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

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

As far as I can tell from here, kbin.social has about as much people on it.

Can I join kbin.social with Lemmy clients or do I need a separate app?
- Might have to test that one out yourself. Ofcourse you can subscribe to kbin.social communities from your lemmy.world instance but if you can actually add them that's another question. Let me know :P

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.

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?)

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

Everytime I see you post a comment it is a painful reminder that Bugles are no longer sold in my country.

Awesome!

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

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

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.

the little engine that could

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.
- 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
- 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.

Congrats on the growth .world!

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

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.
- 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.
- 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'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

This is due to bots. Not organic growth.

ruud is on it, no bots here. relax and enjoy the ride. :)
The rapid Lemmy growth as a whole is certainly bot driven but lemmy.world addressed the bot issue already so the majority of new accounts are most likely organic.
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!

Not beelibhaw, I'm happy