PieFed Meta

Hehe, sort by (Monthly) Active Users (MAUs) at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list - lemmy.ml has only 2k of them in total.

Lemmy.world has >14.1k, so is 7x larger. I seem to recall that at one point Lemmy.ml was the #6-7 instance, though now after much shuffling (including the enormous loss of lemm.ee) it seems to now be #3, behind sh.itjust.works with 2.5k. lemmy.zip (even after making PieFed.zip) and feddit.org are each nearly as large as Lemmy.ml, and Lemmy.dbzer0.com and lemmy.ca are not far behind.

PieFed has roughly as many MAUs as Lemmy.ml, with PieFed.social alone having 1k.

I blocked lemmy.ml a year ago and haven't missed it in the slightest. Granted, some communities such as "Firefox" are much smaller outside of it than on it, but that mainly affects niche content, and I still see so MANY Firefox posts on technology communities, that I don't find that I am missing anything. Occasionally I view content from other instances, and I cannot recall in nearly that whole year's time ever once regretting missing out on a comment from someone on Lemmy.ml - quite the opposite actually, some of the most batshit insane and even just commonly banal and self-serving comments all tend to come from that instance, and I find the Threadiverse on the whole a much nicer, more friendly, helpful and interesting place after having blocked it.

Of course, depending on what communities you are interested in, ymmv. Many people in communities located on Lemmy.ml are fine with turning a blind eye to everything going on ~~around the world~~ on that instance, and that's their decision (although in that case, if the content creators are allowed to hold their audience hostage, then why wouldn't we all still be on Reddit?), but for myself I have chosen the version of the Threadiverse that suits my own needs the best, and moved on. So I wanted to clarify that it is indeed very possible to do so, if you wanted.