I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.

  • @WhoRoger@lemmy.world
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    Lemmy.ml actively asked people to sign up elsewhere. They have a small server and aren’t meant to be a general instance.

    Lemmy.world is run by people who have one of the larger Mastodon servers, and actively advertises to be open and neutral.

    • Drunemeton
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      371 year ago

      It’s also the devs server and they have Lemmy code to write. Can’t be spending time moderating.

          • Rule of the defaults. Most people use whatever the default is. That’s why there is always a push to he the default thing. Microsoft pushes edge on their stuff, Google pushes chrome, apps pushes safari, etc.

            • Provoked Gamer
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              That’s also why Google pays Apple $20 billion annually to be Safari’s default search engine. Most people can’t be bothered to change their defaults/don’t want to after having it as their default for so long.

        • ƊƲƘЄƬӇƠƦƖƠƝ
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          01 year ago

          That’s a problem that will reveal itself later. Decentralization goes away when everyone flocks to one server. Turns into Reddit 2.0

          • @Gullible@lemmy.world
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            31 year ago

            I’m not sure whether the issues plaguing Reddit really apply to lemmy, even with a single instance being disproportionately larger than the others, which makes “Reddit 2.0” a bit less derogatory to me. Reddit’s moderator tools were severely lacking for the required output (federation helps diffuse communities, and lemmy doesn’t encourage bots to swarm in order to increase apparent user numbers for investor satisfaction), every big anti-hate decision required a media spectacle to precede it (admins here aren’t free speech absolutists with authoritarian hard-ons), and staff retention at Reddit is an odd loop of promotion into managerial obsolescence which severely increases overhead (irrelevant to lemmy). Reddit 2.0 wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to me.

    • @morrowind@lemmy.ml
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      41 year ago

      This is the correct answer. The devs have been saying this for years but new users often weren’t aware of this and saw it as the default instance. It’s good to see that’s changed.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    981 year ago

    I signed up on the 12th, after spending a little time comparing with the information I had. My thought process was:

    • I was uncomfortable with the fact that .ml was hosted in Malaysia
    • I thought a larger instance might mean it sticks around longer, but didn’t really want to be on the largest (which .ml was)
    • Beehaw seemed otherwise a good fit, but their policies seemed too restrictive
    • .world seemed to have liberal policies, allowed NSFW, was large but not largest, and was hosted in a country that didn’t worry me
    • @nosedive@lemmy.world
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      681 year ago

      I was uncomfortable with the fact that .ml was hosted in Malaysia

      Not to discount your other points, but lemmy.ml isn’t hosted in Malaysia. The .ml TLD is for Mali, a country in Africa. And the site is hosted by OVH, on servers in France.

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        121 year ago

        Wow, thanks for that, I really thought .ml was Malaysia. While I had some mild concerns about Malaysia, isn’t Mali a shit show as far as human rights? If the servers are in France, that mitigates a lot, but I think I have more concerns about Mali.

        • @CylonBunny@lemmy.world
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          131 year ago

          Mali has nothing to do with the instance though. Every country has a top level domain, like .CA or .UK etc. Most of them you have to pay to make a website using the domain. Mali is one country that lets anybody use the ML domain for free. That’s the only reason Lemmy.ml uses it, they have nothing to do with Mali else-wise. (Well there is the bit about ML = Marxist Leninist, but that is a bit of a backronym.)

        • Provoked Gamer
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          101 year ago

          Ya. I’m pretty sure they just took .ml because it was a cheaper domain, but someone’ll have to correct me on that.

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          41 year ago

          The admins of .ml are tankies. The letters don’t reference a place, they reference a couple of communist leaders who the admins are fans of. I’m surprised that more people aren’t aware of that on this platform.

      • @Gigs@lemmy.world
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        61 year ago

        It’s intended to stand for Marxist - Leninist, is what I heard. I didn’t want to support a tankie thing which is why I went to world.

      • @iByteABit@lemmy.world
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        I don’t think it stands for either, I saw somewhere that it stands for Marx-Lenin since the founders are communists

        • @gigachad@feddit.de
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          71 year ago

          It is indeed a Mali domain, but of course people choose their domains because of their niche community - in case of .ml, it often stands for “Machine Learning”. In this case I am pretty sure you are right and it is meant to represent " Marxist/Leninist" in this case, it is known that the instance admins are close to that ideology.

        • @GregorGizeh@lemmy.world
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          -51 year ago

          Would you feel better if they were communists and chose something completely neutral instead, like .io?

          That’s such an arbitrary thing to be concerned about

    • PorkRoll
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      151 year ago

      Can I ask what worries you about it being hosted on Malaysia?

      • AFK BRB Chocolate
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        461 year ago

        I’m not any authority, and I could be just ignorant, but my understanding is that the Malaysian government makes liberal use of laws against sedition and that govern communication to silence dissent. There was an artist who has been jailed a couple times this year for political satire. That kind of atmosphere doesn’t seem like a good place to host communities that want free discussion.

          • @kat@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            They haven’t asked for extradition yet, but it worries me that they could ask for extradition from the US just because a US citizen made a mean joke that hurt their feelings. If they asked, would the US comply? Seems pretty anti-free-speech if they did.

        • PorkRoll
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          71 year ago

          That’s a pretty valid reason, I’ll have to look into it more as I already created an account on .ml. While I do call myself an anarchist/communist, I don’t zealously jump at the defense of a government without nuancing the situation.

          • @JasonDJ@vlemmy.net
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            191 year ago

            Excep .ml isn’t the TLD for Malaysia… .my is. .ml is Mali.

            And TLDs have little to do with where stuff is hosted. .it is Italy and .ai is Anguilla, but not always by Italian or Anguillan companies.

            • PorkRoll
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              71 year ago

              I knew that .ml stand for “Marxist-Lenninist” and now that I realize the other lem thought .ml meant it’s being hosted in Malaysia I’m cracking up. That’s a fun mishap.

      • @zeppo@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        It’s decidedly not hosted in malaysia. I’m also unclear why that would be a problem though.

    • @DarkWasp@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      This is pretty much the same thought pattern I had, however I made my account here after Beehaw defederated and have since decided not to use it anymore. Lemmy.world reminds me so much of the older style internet and forums and it’s a breath of fresh air.

  • @Pavidus@lemmy.world
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    921 year ago

    Why did I create a Lemmy world account as opposed to beehaw or ml? Because it’s the first one I saw. Because it doesn’t matter. Because I don’t know what ml stands for. Because Lenny world said “general use.” Because I didn’t have to fill out an application. Because I can still interact with everything else, and again, it doesn’t matter.

    • @henfredemars@lemmy.world
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      291 year ago

      Underrated comment. I picked it because I had no idea what I was doing and it sounded all-encompassing and I wanted access to everything. I didn’t even know what an instance was. I just picked it because it sounded like a good guess to get access to all of Lemmy.

  • @Myrbolg@lemmy.world
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    651 year ago

    As someone signing up for lemmy.world, my reasons were:

    • It sounds official or at least less obscure than “.ml” or “sh.itjust.works”
    • It sounded inclusive (we’re all part of the world, so to speak)
    • It was in the list of default instances of Connect for Lemmy

    Otherwise, I didn’t give much though to which instance to pick.

  • @Saturn@lemmy.world
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    631 year ago

    I think most of it has to do with that lemmy.world has better hardware than other instances. The admin Rudd has a lot of experience running federated services as well. So it may be his first rodeo lemmy-wise but not hosting a federated service with a large user-base.

    So when a lot of smaller instances started getting overwhelmed and stopping signups, lemmy.world was going strong without the performance issues that other instances might see.

    That along with the fact that NSFW content is allowed makes lemmy.world a good alternative for Reddit refugees looking for something stable with a similar set of rules as well.

    I myself joined lemmy.ml at first, then beehaw.org when lemmy.ml asked everyone to spread out, and finally found home on lemmy.world because I didn’t really like how downvotes are disabled on beehaw. Not to mention the defederation that beehaw has done recently. Although I can understand and appreciate why they’ve done that.

    • @fidodo@lemm.ee
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      111 year ago

      I’ve signed up for a bunch of them and still haven’t decided where I want to make my main. I know that annoys some people but I love it because it means I get to have a choice! I think I’ll have a Lemmy world account since they’re big, buti also want to find a good smaller community to have slower more meaningful conversations. I hope the Lemmy protocol adds support for account linking some day.

      • @Richard@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        I’ve signed up for a bunch of them and still haven’t decided where I want to make my main.

        Same story for me, although I keep coming back to Lemmy.world in the first instance, at least for the Lemmy instances (also explored kbin, tildes and squabbles). Mixed feelings about Lemmy.ml as I think there’s virtue being on the instance the devs run as it seems unlikely to go away, although there has been the talks around political views. From the political side, I do hang out more often than not in tech spaces though so I doubt it’d actually impact anything I’d want to engage in discussion about.

        Also have an account with Beehaw which was my first but silly as it may seem, the name of that one puts me off a bit. “Lemmy.world” sounds like something I can more easily communicate to a friend verbally, for whatever that is worth.

    • orivar
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      51 year ago

      I’ve moved once so far, but it wasn’t as straightforward forward as I’d hoped. Do you know of a simple way to migrate (export/import) communities and settings across instances?

        • orivar
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          31 year ago

          Interesting. I browse Lemmy exclusively on mobile, for a one time transfer of communities I guess I could set up greasemonkey and find that script. Thanks!

  • @flamekhan@lemmy.world
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    631 year ago

    The developer for RIF told me to come here. I figured that I should trust the person that created the app that I’ve used for hundreds of hours.

  • @Clikes@lemmy.world
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    571 year ago

    I was overwhelmed by the options of instances. Then Reddit is Fun had a pop up message suggesting to go to lemmy.world. I trusted Reddit is Fun so I followed its suggestion.

      • @Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        Funny how a lot of us originally found Reddit through watermarks on pics on Ebaum’s World. Maybe worth flooding reddit with pics watermarked lemmy.world

    • @Zippy@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      I open today rif accidently and it started to work again. Logged out mind you. Got a weird message with instructions to log back into my Reddit account. Was able to browse Reddit as a guest on the meanwhile. Didn’t want to log back in as fuck Reddit.

      Did rif sell to Reddit? Couldn’t blame him if he did but all the same I am leaving. Just can’t see how rif would still work without Reddit owning his servers. Anyone know what is going on?

      • @zeppo@lemmy.world
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        51 year ago

        Reddit wasn’t interested in buying any of the 3rd party apps. Since you know, apparently they’re so great at making apps that there were a dozen third party ones that people preferred.

      • I don’t know, but it might be that Reddit is only limiting API keys for authenticated sessions. That way the anonymous requests still work up to the free API rate limits.

  • Shin
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    511 year ago

    Regardless of the how, I think it’s really cool that the top instance isn’t run by the devs. Really shows off the power and appeal of decentralized services.

    • @AnObscureTenet@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Does any of that make you think it’s SUPPOSED to be new user friendly?

      They don’t have to be. They also don’t have to be federated.

      • @Stumbler@lemmy.world
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        131 year ago

        Have people not learned anything from their reddit experience? Beehaw is extremely massive fed flags. Its literally the same exact toxic behavior that the uber mods that hoarded subreddits and got off from power would have.

        Its not a good look and im shocked people support it…

        • @skred@lemmy.world
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          Imagine getting tribalistic over a site which can have infinite clones and everyone can get the experience(s) they want.

          The existence of Beehaw has no material impact on you whatsoever.

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            81 year ago

            I didin’t get tribalistic. I just said I don’t understand. Maybe I missed the memo that said criticism and confusion is not allowed?

          • @Stumbler@lemmy.world
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            101 year ago

            How about you fucking relax? I was simply stating my criticsm and explaining that I don’t get it. I didin’t police anyone, I didint insult anyone, I just said from my point of view it makes no sense. Yet you handle a small criticsm with the social skills of a tantruming child…

          • @Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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            21 year ago

            I agree with you, but jeez man. Take it down a few notches.

            If you’re having a bad day, I really hope it gets better.

            • @AnObscureTenet@lemmy.world
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              -11 year ago

              Why the fuck do people equate being vehement with a fucking “bad day.” Maybe I’m just not a wallpaper paste motherfucker and have stronger opinions than your average wankbag.

              I’m EXTRA STRENGTH WANKBAG.

  • Frost Wolf
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    Probably because its name sounds official and it allows quick registration while others need approval (some never approves you).

    Turns out it’s the right choice as the admin seems very active in updates and fixes. Lemmy.world also has a more chill homey vibes. At least that’s what I observed so far.

  • Sparking
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    By keeping sign-ups open, mostly.

    Lemmy.ml, to my understanding, was always meant to be a pilot instance from the devs of lemmy. Beehaw is kind of its own forum. There is also sh.itjust.works, but that has been caught up in some federation drama, and I don’t think people like the name. Lemmy.world has been the right server at the right time to absorb everyone and I guess they have been able to keep up with sign-ups. Kudos to them.

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    Lemmy.ml had sign ups closed. Behaw required a short story or something to get accepted. Lemmy.world was accepting sign-ups wasn’t hosted somewhere shady and had active communities. It was a pretty easy choice. Assuming the admins have a pledge drive or something to host on AWS/GCP so we can get better burst capabilities I’d love to donate.

    • @halo5@lemmy.world
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      Donations to keep the lemmy.world instance up-and-running can be made through:

      https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld or https://patreon.com/mastodonworld

      @ruud does good work, and he’s a HELL of a good admin. I’d recommend that we all contribute in order to have a place to gather. I’ve been looking at the various solutions to the Reddit conundrum and, personally, I think that lemmy.world is our best bet at this point…

      EDIT: I have no affiliation; I just think that we should pay it back however we can. It costs money to run servers and, even if we just “buy him a coffee,” every little bit helps IMO.

      • @TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        @Ruud has been great and Lemmy.world has very transparent so I will throw some cash their way. The mastodon.world blog is transparent with costs and financials which I appreciate.

        I would love to see if they have a roadmap of how they plan to address the current surge of traffic or if they plan to just wait it out with their current VPS.

      • @TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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        @Ruud has been great and Lemmy.world has very transparent so I will throw some cash their way. The mastodon.world blog is transparent with costs and financials which I appreciate.

        I would love to see if they have a roadmap of how they plan to address the current surge of traffic or if they plan to just wait it out with their current VPS.