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Lemmy.world active users is tapering off while other servers are gaining serious traction. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.

But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.

Give me that hopium guys! 💉

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gotcha. That's pretty cool. I don't suppose there's a reason why just those specific places (instances?) defederated?

Either way, I like the general mashup of being able to see pretty much anything from anywhere here. Organised chaos in a positive sense, bring it on!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beehaw was built as a safe space (even before all the Reddit furore) - it's all laid out in their main sidebar, and their docs.

So after the big migration last month, users started flocking to the 'verse. And apparently beehaw mods were having so much moderating issues with users from two of the bigger instances (lemmy.world & sh.itjust.works). So after a meeting of admins from the 3 instances, they decided to amicably defederate for now.

And this is the beauty of Federation. You can join instances that align with your values. You can join a safe space and have a curated experience, or enjoy the lawless wild west.

The instance I'm on has defederated NSFW instances, for fear of legal issues. It also means that my "All" feed is safe to browse from work, which is exactly what I'm looking for.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the in depth answer!

And that sounds like a mature and adult decision. On the internet. Who knew such things were possible...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I've seen more mature discussions in the verse in a month, than I have on Reddit in the past year or two.

The other big one lately is Facebook/Meta joining the verse. Response from the instances have ranged from "Meta can go to hell, we're not gonna federate", to "we'll wait and see", to "great! more content". And they all just agree to disagree with almost no drama.

It's quite refreshing.