Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
Canadian and running on 99% renewal energy were all I needed to know to join sh.itjust.works
Also the name is top notch! And it’s been pretty true to it too.
I like how the name can be read in 2 ways: shit just works and shh it just works!
There was a rough week or two there but it’s been good lately. Happy being a part of it though.
is there a canada based domain running under lemm.eh? because if not, there should be.
.eh isn’t an available top level domain
I do kinda love this name.
I’m confused why it says it is in the Netherlands
I thought that was the French flag? I figured it got confused by the instance being bilingual.
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My people!
Also two good reasons for me as well.
It’s strange that it doesn’t report a Canadian flag on the graphic in the post heading though. Looks like Netherlands?
Based
goddammit
i joined dxcomplex because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
then it folded so i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name)i’m starting to wonder if i’m cursed
Wtf go away
but what if going away makes it worse? .world’s downtime has only increased since i made my l.ee acct
Well then, please post where you’re gonna go next so we can avoid your trail.
well actually, i did recently make a backup acct. on lemmy.dbzer0.com…
Well that’s not great for me then
If you want an instance that almost definitely won’t go under, sdf.org has existed since
19861987 and has an instance at lemmy.sdf.orgactually i almost went for sdf instead of l.ee. the reason i didn’t was that it seems almost too good to be true? i see so many sites around that proclaim they’re hosted on sdf, the biggest text on their homepage says “create a free account” and yet there isn’t a donate button
i realise there’s one on their lemmy instance, and i might choose them if l.ee does fold, but i felt like i was taking advantage of something meant for others
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You are become death
I get your point, but I think lemm.ee is still so much smaller than lemmy.world that it’s not much of a problem (at least not yet).
yeah you’re right, but i’m not (just) being funny when i said that - lemmy.world had only just started when i joined (10 days), still had the old (much nicer) icon and no banner, etc. it had 188 users / month, compared to .ml’s (at the time) 1.8k and lemm.ee’s (current, according to the above infographic) 3.7k…
This graph is actually wrong, lemmy.ml doesn’t have open sign ups, it just appears to because the Lemmy software doesn’t accurately distinguish between open and closed registrations, it only distinguishes between open registrations and application-based registrations. If registrations are closed it’ll look just like they are open, but we’ll just give an error message when you try to sign up which is incredibly deceiving.
I filed an issue to fix this discrepancy on their GitHub.
Another issue with this graph is that it shows lemmy.world as American but it’s actually hosted in Finland.
We did it!
Wait that wasn’t the point.
Aw man are we gonna have to move?
If they ever defederate from piracy communities, yeah, but I don’t think so, admin has a very anti defederate policy, so I see this scenario very hard to occur.
Oh, I don’t really care about piracy communities. I meant on the basis of it getting big.
Woah, we grew fast!
lemm.ee has been consistently great for me, wonderful admin too.
Once lemm.ee can host larger images, I believe this will become the best instance on lemmy
one of the reasons it’s fast is because they limit image sizes which lower server load.
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I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.
Noooooooooooo. Don’t get too big or that’ll just paint a target on our server for the DDOS attacks!
stop growing I don’t want to move instances again 🫠
lemm.ee best instance 100%
Isn’t that the one that censors the word “bitch”?
I’m gonna go with no, since I’m reading it perfectly currently.
Hmmm, maybe that’s .ml then.
Are you thinking of beehaw.org?
Nawh, I’m the instance had a “lem” prefix of some sort.
100%
Che, that means drama incoming.
Che, that means drama incoming.
Beehaw hasn’t been in the news lately…
I contributed! After lemmy world banning the piracy community
Yup same
That piracy community is a godsend. Thanks me harties from the bottom of me hearty.
Where’s lemm.ee located physically?
This was asked in the lemm.ee discord and the answer given is below.
Ping times are low everywhere because the files we serve are hosted on globally distributed servers. So if you’re in North America, you will download the frontend code (and images etc) from a North American server. But the backend is actually hosted in Germany
Do you know if personal data (like emails, IP addresses) is also distributed across the world? I mean, this is important from the privacy perspective. Different countries have different rules.
Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you’re concerned though.
So which country’s laws apply to user generated content?
Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring.
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Oh boy, I can’t wait until everyone defederares from us too. /s
Damn it, I chose lemm.ee as my backup account (primary is lemmy.world) as it wasn’t the number two…
The reverse Tinkerbell.
is there a way to transfer my account to another instance? lemmy.world for me is unreliable and slow :/
They’re quick when it comes to defederating lefties. Not so much with toxic right wingers.
In all seriousness though, some apps copy subbed communities. Having a backup lemmy is useful.
I need more data on that first point. Everyone’s defederation rationales and strategies have evolved over the last few months.
Exploding heads was slow. Hexbear was instantaneous.
Read the Hexbear defederation post if you want to see how subjective it actually was.
Don’t get me wrong, commies are badly misguided, but they can hold a good faith rational debate.
I think I’ll have to see how quickly they make a decision on other instances in the future.
The hexbear defederation did seem odd to me since the rationale was the admins there reminding their users to follow other instances rules?
Idk, I’m glad I can still see hexbear comments. I may not agree with them but at least they appear more literate than the exploding heads users.
