cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25427659

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  • Maroon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 hour ago

    Why are these instances so big, but not others? Like if I made a public instance and allow people to join, would it become this big?

    Also, where do .world instances fall on this map?

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      59 minutes ago

      Why are these instances so big, but not others? Like if I made a public instance and allow people to join, would it become this big?

      Depends on a lot of factors. The big 3 are:

      1. Reliability/accessibility. These instances all have significant capacity, good uptime ratio, connection speed, etc. All of those things necessitate expenses, of course, though not necessarily massive expenses. I believe sh.itjust.works gets by with less than 10k per year.

      2. Administration. Some people want a light hand, others a heavy hand; some want minimal bias, others want to see anyone who disagrees get the boot. In all cases, an active and responsive admin team helps.

      3. Communities. Power users drive social media. How active initial users and communities are drives future growth.

      Oh, and all of these instances are several years old, including being extant at the Great Exodus back in '23, which significantly boosted everyone’s numbers.

      Also, where do .world instances fall on this map?

      Lemmy.world is in the center; other .world instances are probably similarly placed.

  • Eyedust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    I think it’s even funnier that we hand out labels right at the ticket stand to lemmy and turn around to say that labeling people based on norms is bad.

    Someone needs to make a comic, you can’t even make this shit up. Sign up for your next stake burning at a server near you.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    13·
    15 hours ago

    Well this game a few solid chuckles…

    the money shot:

    “not explicitly anti-capitalist” is the furthers right you can get on lemmy

    Yas hehe

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    18 hours ago

    Lol I love that SJW is listed as right wing for not explicitly being anticapitalist. Gave me a good laugh.

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Yeah, I hadn’t thought of political leanings when I signed up. I literally just googled for a list of instances, and the first instance that I successfully signed up with stuck. I tried .ml and .world first, but their signup pages were DoS’ed by the hoardes of redditors like myself fleeing when our apps died because of the api BS…

      Can’t say that I regret my instance though. When ml and blahaj are going off on each other, I’ll grab some popcorn and sit back… But I’ve learned that you shouldn’t engage with a .ml community, and the mods on .world are probably the most like the power hungry cunts on reddit.

    • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
      12·
      18 hours ago

      It was nazi and had fucking loli shit on it. That made LITERALLY every instance defederate. Even the ones that were neutral said fuck you to them.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      305·
      23 hours ago

      Was it exploding heads?

      Believe so. Fuck them though, they don’t even deserve to have their name written in the meme.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        7·
        16 hours ago

        There was Wolfballs, which started out as a right-leaning free speech instance, but was obviously quickly overrun by trolls and fascists, so everyone defederated them and the owner decided to shut it down. As a result all the problematic people including the mods from Wolfballs moved to Exploding-Heads, which welcomed them with open arms despite also not being originally a pure right-wing instance. And yeah obviously they got defederated as well then…

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
    162·
    23 hours ago

    I suppose the fun starts trying to slot other instances in there.

    So reply with an instance and thrash out it’s place on the graph.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        Arguably dbzer0 would be a bit further towards the libertarian right, although still in the bottom left corner.

              • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
                3·
                17 hours ago

                “Libertarian socialism” is quite a bit broader than “ancom” and there are plenty of anarcho-individualists that out of individualist considerations consider themselves socialists.

                Lets take piracy as an example:

                An ancom would likely argue that this is bad under the current circumstances and that the creators should be fairly compensated or rather have their needs covered so that they are free to make stuff. However they would likely also concede that piracy from large corporations would be somewhat ok as large privately owned corporations are a bad thing and thus don’t deserve any protection.

                An anarcho-individualist would be likely in favour of piracy even under the current circumstances as it usually benefits the person pirating much more than it hurts the people working on the digital media, but maybe concede that you shouldn’t do it for small individual creators trying to make a living.

                So you see that the final outcome isn’t that different, but an ancom would likely shy away from openly promoting piracy of digital media.

                • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  9 hours ago

                  Great post! I consider myself a “libertarian socialist," but most on Lemmy doesn’t know what that is, so I just say socialist.

                • inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  2·
                  14 hours ago

                  I’m ancom and one of the main admins for db0 is more anarcho-individualist based on this example.

                  I don’t care about pirating Hollywood blockbusters, I do care about generative AI stealing individual creators work with no compensation to ultimately put out garbage disguised as “art”.

                  That’s the big difference between myself and the admins of db0 is they’re pro AI and don’t believe at all in intellectual property even for individuals.

                  But I’m still there because it’s a dope instance and we can agree to disagree.

                • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  17 hours ago

                  Wouldn’t an ancom not believe in ownership — and therefore think piracy is not inherently immoral? Obviously they believe in community distribution and mutual aid so they would believe that if people involved with the creation of those media were struggling they would help those people, but not necessarily through the proxy of buying the movie but through general mutual aid.