Does lemmy.world really have 19000 users already?

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Okay, it's actually 18955 at the time of this post. I'm looking at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and lemmy.world has already passed beehaw.org by a large margin for second place.

Can't wait for this place to start filling out!

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I think it's growing the fastest from all the servers since you don't have to write a line or two for the application!

Heh writing the application was part of the fun! :D No, really, I think that at least in Beehive, it is an important step: It ensures a minimum understanding of the environment of the instance and its mission, and as long as the option to join other instances is there, why not?

I agree, having to spend a minute to write something is good, my server also does it.

And it really doesn't have to be an essay. I got approved with like 8 words.

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It's pretty exciting! I'm really enjoying this new platform. Not filled with ads and the comments feel a lot more genuine.

Agreed, and not full of overused jokes over and over again.

Ugh that was my biggest gripe with reddit. Open a thread just to see the same 5 jokes repeated over and over in different ways to try and reap karma.

I began using reddit in 2017. I never really realized there had been a decline in quality until I recently ended up on some threads from 2017ish. I think some of it had to do with the change from a very desktop-oriented, forum-style page, to a dumbed-down mobile-friendly experience. The emphasis is now heavy on pictures, videos, instant messaging, avatars, online status, shiny award bling, infinite scrolling, etc. Reddit may not have intended it, but I feel like their target age demographic is much lower now. I'm shocked at how many regular users are still in high school or even middle school. I'd guess the kids are the ones repeating the funny jokes en masse. They're just kids being kids, but it gets old sometimes.

That's why I left the Always sunny in Philadelphia subreddit. I joined to talk about the show but Every.single.comment. is a joke or line from the show. Almost no one would engage in an actual discussion or conversation.

I'd click on a post in a Star Wars or LOTR subreddit with hundreds of comments and it was always just bots and people replying to bots with lines that triggered more bots.

There aren't any karma bots yet. No one is making useless comments like "this." The conversations are civil. I'm loving this community!

I think the federated nature of the platform may help to reinforce those positive attributes. Unmoderated instances with low quality content are at risk of being defederated, and as evident by the mod log, the mods do enforce rules on inflammatory and low quality content.

Does lemmy.world have any unfederated instances? I was preferring the freedom of chosing to block communities myself but I started running into some very toxic posts that make me feel like I took a wrong turn and I'm gonna get stabbed in a dark alley lol! I'd rather stick to the friendly, positive and useful posts. I would rather avoid that aspect of Reddit here.

in just 2 days this place has exploded with content, its easier to stay away from reddit now.

I mean, sure some are probably people making multiple accounts, but based on the speed of new posts showing up I’d believe there are at least 20k on lemmy.world. It’s the largest and most stable instance at the moment.

Personally I run my own instance and connect to the communities from there.

Hello 👋 new to fediverse - what are the benefits of running your own and connecting in to these communities, compared to just making an account on an instance that already exists?

I imagine if you run your own, you don't lose access to your account compared to if, say, your account is in lemmy.world and it goes down. Is there more to it?

That's pretty much it for me. There's a lot of complexity in hosting that you don't have to do if you use someone else's instance. There's a risk that their server goes down, but most people who start big servers know what they're doing.

Its also advantageous to join the instance you want to interact most in. Interacting across instances is possible but still a little buggy. It's harder to find communities, and once you do, sometimes posts don't load.

In addition to that,

  • I like the challenge of leaning new technologies and hosting my own web apps
  • It lets me feel that I have a bit more control over my user and posts
  • I get my own vanity domain / user address
  • I get a good understanding of how the lemmy frontend, backend and database work (yay open-source!)
  • I can keep my instance up to date with the latest lemmy releases (some are still running 0.17.3!)
  • I can do some dev work and testing on my instance, if I want, without impacting others
  • it reduces load on the main instances

There’s more, but I think that’s a good enough list for now. Have a nice day!

It looks like a lot of new communities are popping up on Lemmy world so people might be joining it to post in one of the new communities.

That's why I'm here. This place seems like it has the most consolidated niche communities

Joined Monday, started two communities, subbed to what I like, and making an effort to post way more than I did elsewhere. Joined LW because lemmy.ml had issues Monday and I really didn't understand the difference. Using Jerboa on the phone, its all working way more smoothly than I thought it would

burggit.moe is the only instance blocked by lemmy.world. what's the deal with that server?

Oh no. I keep trying to move down to the next level of smaller but well-organised sites that are running smoothly, and they all keep growing like crazy. It's like I'm part of the problem or something.

Watch out feddit.uk, I'm coming for you next! You think that uptime is going to stay at 100%? Pfft.

come on over, we have greggs, we can eat that to pass the downtime if it happens

Haha, there's a tricky calculation to be done there depending on how long they've been out of the oven versus how long the downtime is if you want to avoid being over or under steak-baked.

So, I'm still seeing a 'pending' status for mine. I signed up on both beehaw and lemmy.world, and I was really hoping to be able to help grow both, but I can't create a community on beehaw, so I'm just sitting here waiting to be approved(?) on lemmy.world to be able to do that. I think. I'm not sure I've got much of this as figured out as everyone else.

A registration doesn't need to be approved here, you just need to verify your e-mail. (Check spam..) If there's any issue with that, mail us at info@lemmy.world so we can assist.

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