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This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.

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We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (12 children)

congrats from .ca!

while im here: does anybody actually know why lemmy.world grew the fastest out of all of the instances? its not the "main" instance like .ml, not a safe space like beehaw, and a normal general instance like itjust.works. im curious why out of all places, .world got the main influx

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because on the main Lenny website world shows up as recommended. The other recommended sites want users to put an email in addition to a write up on what they can offer. Which totally kills interest for any new people.

I think the main Lenny website is to blame here tbh. It pushing users towards a few preset instances that are not really new user friendly.

Some are not accepting sign ups at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

join-lemmy.org shows a few instances at the top of its join page:

lemmy.fmhy.ml (which is based)

sh.itjust.works which im pretty sure is having a free speech or too much user choice problem atm

lemm.ee, a general instance

sopuli.xyz, which i know nothing about (who is finn???)

i dont see .world until a further scroll down from those. did they change it?

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