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Lemmy MAUs climbing back up! You love to see it.
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this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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(bigger instances are not the point of decentralization)
Does it say anything anywhere about big instances? I'm confused.
this thread is about instances fighting to be #1 isn’t it? y’all know that’s why MAU and metrics are tracked and reported like this right? You do realize that any site which has your email has maybe about $0.5-$1 added to their valuation for each active user, right? this helps companies get advertisers. Even if a product is crap, the business can say “sure but we can contact 1mil users at their email addresses” and I assure you, that counts for a lot.
In case you're not joking, this thread is about Fediverse software fighting to be #1. First is Mastodon (all known instances of it), second is Lemmy (all known instances of it), etc. etc.
The software isn’t doing the fight. I doubt the developers of the software are doing the fight. The fight seems weird and antithetical to the fediverse to begin with. It’s not a fight, it’s a party! https://fediverse.party
ActivityPub was made for sharing and interoperability.
Information wants to be free.
Capitalism wants domination. Capitalism and bottoms, of course. switches too. i digress,,
No one is actually fighting, its just showing the average monthly users of each platform from most to least users.
It’s not fighting, it’s comparison, to see which one is “better”. Not a fight, but a competition. Just like how boxing matches are competitions, not fights.
Do Lemmy and Mastodon really compete with each other when they're attempting to cater to different needs? They are all part of the greater Fediverse, showing the growth of the overall community.
Of course not, so why rank them? Don’t we rank things that compete against one another?
Aren't you on a big instance?
Only the biggest. as I understand all other instances shut down when the biggest instance wins.
I have accounts on other instances and am considering starting my own. that’s my point - lemmy doesn’t need big instances because federation makes all instances part of the same but decentralized.
Seriously folks, don’t jump on the take over the internet bandwagon just yet.
True but it does seem like a good sign of a healthy ecosystem.
So long as we don’t view it as a race to the top. having one instance that’s more popular than the others just means added pressure for that instance to perform. and if it doesn’t perform? lemmy loses users who may not want to migrate to another instance.
first day on the internet?
No I was using reddit since 2009 or so. This is the closest alternative I can find to escape the cesspool that it has become.
yeah, centralized services can get stupidly large and unwieldy.
It would be nice to eventually develop an RES-style firefox extension for keyboard navigation and whatnot.