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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!
is there a canada based domain running under lemm.eh? because if not, there should be.
Tbf, depending on the region, that's just how the electricity is made. The fbxl network runs off of electricity generation made up of 86% hydroelectric and biomass, with the balance made up of wind, solar, and natural gas.
As I have repeatedly repeatedly said, with a geography of canada, the entire country could be 100% renewables in a decade or two if there was a real focus on hydroelectric generation that is presently powering entire regions, and it would make people's lives better in the process with plentiful inexpensive hydroelectric we would make electric heat the most competitive and thus would start offsetting burning fossil fuels for building heat which would have a massive impact on carbon emissions since buildings make up 25% of total emissions and most building heat is done with fossil fuels because electricity is too expensive and the costs are rising so people are migrating to fossil fuels even with the carbon tax...
But I digress...
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
Lol same, I joined FMHY first because I wanted in on a smaller instance. I now self host. Fool me once.
Considering how many startrek memes I see on lemmy, I'm surprised this was the original meme.
We did it!
Wait that wasn't the point.
People seem to only want their accounts on "general use" instances that are already pretty popular.
Which is... bizarre. There is no downside to having your account on a more niche instance (as long as it isn't so niche that it gets turned off), and there are arguably disadvantages to having your account on a more popular instance.
People want to be where people are. My guess is we’ll end up with a bunch of super instances eventually.
People want to be where people are.
This logic only applies in centralized platforms. In the case of the Fediverse, people are everywhere and anywhere.
One big thing that hasn't changed from reddit is that lemmy instances are still based on an autocratic power structure. Whether or not your content gets seen or you get to see other content depends on the relationships between those leaders. That means choosing your leadership is of utmost importance, and I eventually settled on lemm.ee because it was the first instance I came across that both a) seemed like it had actual adults running the show, and b) was large enough for that leadership have already faced some challenges and have an established track record.
That's the downside to a niche instance.
A slight advantage to big servers is the increase in anonymity on the backend. Given the server admins can do what ever that want. An admin on small server would no doubt be looking into who and where their individual users are. Big severs are more likely to become more population based. Doesn't really matter though I suppose.
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.
Getting closer to being ddos'd every six seconds.
Woah, we grew fast!
lemm.ee has been consistently great for me, wonderful admin too.
I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.
The other .ml instances had a .ml free domain. Lemmy.ml paid for the domain so it's in no danger of losing it.
Edit: further proof that it is a paid domain:
Noooooooooooo. Don't get too big or that'll just paint a target on our server for the DDOS attacks!
They should probably add a % measure to that to show active users as a % of total users to give a more balanced look at active instances
Oh goody. There's a RickRussell_CA@lemm.ee and it's not me. And it's using one of my older profile pictures.
EDIT: 2023/8/29 update -- I posted to the lemm.ee support community and the admins decided to disable the account. Well done!
That's why we disabled the buy-sell-trade community on our niche instance. Nobody got scammed during the short time it was open, but if a username can be duplicated it makes scamming that much easier.
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
"were using a rock bottom VPS out of germany with cloudlfare"