• Bebo
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        371 year ago

        I like how the name can be read in 2 ways: shit just works and shh it just works!

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        There was a rough week or two there but it’s been good lately. Happy being a part of it though.

    • @BloodSlut
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      is there a canada based domain running under lemm.eh? because if not, there should be.

    • sj_zero
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      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…

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        If it were hosted in Nova Scotia half of its power would come from coal. So I don’t take it for granted

    • @[email protected]
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      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?

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼
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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      Considering how many startrek memes I see on lemmy, I’m surprised this was the original meme.

      • brainfreeze
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        I don’t care what anyone says I will always read it as start rek

    • @[email protected]
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      Most of the times that i see this meme is always censured, they usually take out the part where the woman gets gropped. While i understeand why someone wouldnt whant to share something that contains sexuall harasment, i think its a little silly and very curious how its users self-censored themselvels with this meme, it its very unussual to find it like this in the wild.

      • Corgana
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        81 year ago

        In this version of the meme she’s actually from an alien culture where it’s considered rude not to kiss someone and squeeze their butt after accepting a medal. Their version of “bless you” after a sneeze.

        I swear to god it’s in the show somewhere look it up.

    • Stoneykins [any]
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      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.

      • @BURN
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        211 year ago

        People want to be where people are. My guess is we’ll end up with a bunch of super instances eventually.

        • @[email protected]
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          141 year ago

          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.

          • Calavera
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            61 year ago

            But here on lemmy itself we can see people gathering in just a few instances

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Not everything happens for a logical reason. It’s human nature to get together in tribes, and the majority of people are okay with just following the pack.

              I just hope that eventually more people figure out that there is no significant advantage in being in the largest instances, and that it can be actually harmful (too many resources, potential drama because too much power is given to the admins, etc)

      • @[email protected]
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        171 year ago

        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.

        • IninewCrow
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          21 year ago

          That’s the core of every problem that’s occurred to every massive human social structure we’ve ever created in history.

          We create systems, the systems become powerful, a small group of autocratic people naturally gravitate towards wanting to lead, the system is taken over by this small group, the system is corrupted, the system fails, the system ends … then we start over again.

          It keeps happening over and over again and the common denominator is human greed (either in the need to gain money and wealth … or in the need to just want to gain power over everyone)

          The only systems that last are the ones where everyone has an equal stake and a shared power structure. But it’s a balancing game that constantly has to be monitored … because once we stop being vigilant, some greedy idiots will naturally start taking over.

      • @[email protected]
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        151 year ago

        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.

        • @lagomorphlecture
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          I wouldn’t say no doubt. Some certainly would do that, others could have more integrity.

        • @[email protected]
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          Yeah no exact opposite for me: Big server means lots of user data making abuse of it more appealing and impactful. While an admin of a small instance having some fun digging through user internals would really do no harm (I don’t believe that’s a particularly typical hobby of small instance admins though xD ).

      • @[email protected]
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        91 year ago

        A good 40% of users are spread out on servers with less then 5% of the overall user base, but that is still a good 60% in the top 5 instances, considering how laggy lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are, I am surprised anyone stays on them.

        • @Myriadblue
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          Haven’t noticed any issues, aside from the occasional down time on world.

      • @Cryophilia
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        81 year ago

        Smaller instances take longer to load content from bigger instances.

        I have a kbin account and a lemmy account, but I find myself more active on lemmy because it’s faster to load new content.

        • @vimdiesel
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          31 year ago

          hate to say it, but looks better too

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        It’s not easy to see the list of all communities in an instance you don’t have an account. If I login and federate as [email protected], I can see all the local communities inside example.com, but not others like lemmy.world. I don’t mean individual posts or an individual community, I mean list of all instance communities. I think this is one of high priority issues to be patched.

      • @vimdiesel
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        31 year ago

        it’s not that bizarre; people want easy and people don’t seem to really understand how it works so they’d rather go where the most people are or the one that is “trending”.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        I’ve found that sometimes old posts don’t propagate to newer servers. So if you want to participate in a old thread, you need another account.

      • Nerd02
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        The disadvantage of being on a small instance is that you could have an admin who is a fucking moron and ends up breaking stuff because they don’t know what they are doing.

        Sauce: am admin. am fucking moron.

      • kratoz29
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        81 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          Oh, I don’t really care about piracy communities. I meant on the basis of it getting big.

  • Draconic NEO
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    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.

      • @vimdiesel
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        one of the reasons it’s fast is because they limit image sizes which lower server load.

  • @[email protected]
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    I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.

    • @[email protected]
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      Can’t speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I’ve yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.

      Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because it is more open and lenient in not defedereting and as a user i can choose which subs and instances to block.

      • Cloudless ☼
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        Thanks. Looking at the admin’s profile, he seems to be very reasonable. I especially like this comment he made:

        “Not sure if I actually have to justify removing soviet and/or nazi symbolism, but I have lived my whole life in a country on the border of Russia. My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history. I want to be clear that while I think criticising capitalism is totally normal and necessary, I am also extremely aware of constant Kremlin propaganda. Propaganda which is spread both in their media, but also crucially in online channels. Propaganda which includes things like downplaying horrifying actions of the soviet union, portraying their “enemies” (the west) in the worst possible light, and mixing in soviet symbolism wherever possible. I have no intention of allowing anything which resembles this propaganda to be spread through lemm.ee. If banning offending users does not work, then further steps will definitely be taken.”

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          My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history.

          Poland?

          • @[email protected]
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            History fits the majority of Eastern European countries but yes as said they are Estonian. Actually, now that I think about it can’t really think of any Eastern European countries that it doesn’t fit at all.

            • @BURN
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              Eastern Europe had finally just stabilized a little bit it looked like. They’ve consistently gotten the short end of the stick from the superpowers in the region using their territory for war.

              Hopefully after Ukraine is over (with Ukraine keeping all their land) there will be some stability in the region again

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                Living next to Russia has never been easy. Living between Russia and Western powers has been worse. I’m Finnish and while we have not really seen ourselves as Eastern Europeans for a long time, we are. Just got lucky past century.

      • @SpaghettiYeti
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        It says a significant chunk of their funding comes from users. Where does the other funding come from?

  • @[email protected]
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    Noooooooooooo. Don’t get too big or that’ll just paint a target on our server for the DDOS attacks!

      • @[email protected]
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        I see only two ways for this to stop happening:

        • Instance admins make a collective pact to close registrations if their instance reaches x% of the total active base, and only open again when this number goes down to x/2%. I think x=10 would be a good start.

        • Instead of donations, instances start charging for access after a certain number. This is what my instance is doing: the first 250 active users are free, after that payment is required.

  • Demigodrick
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    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

    • oce 🐆
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      What is felt by users is the absolute number rather than the proportion.

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          Because when you open and later refresh Lemmy, the quantity of new posts you will see, which gives an idea of Lemmy’s activity, is proportional to the absolute number of active users, not the proportion of active users per instance.

          • @[email protected]
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            By why not both, I meant why not display both the number of users and the proportion of the total userbase. This does not seem to be an answer to that question.

            • oce 🐆
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              I thought you asked why wouldn’t both be felt by users. Otherwise, sure both can be displayed, the proportion gives an idea of the dynamic of a community.

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    Oh goody. There’s a [email protected] 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!

    • walden
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      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.

    • @ieightpi
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      Uhhhhh. Yeah this was always something I was worried about with multiple instances. Having multiple usernames run my different people. The @ at the end will be crucial for people keep them separate

    • @MicroWaveOP
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      That sucks. Looks like they actually went out of their way to create that account a few days after yours.

    • @[email protected]
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      The only bad part about the fediverse, imho, it’s hard to be the only one with your username. What makes it bad is a malicious user, that you may have pissed off somehow, start using your username in a smear campaign to hurt your reputation.

        • @[email protected]
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          True. I try to stay anonymous. But that doesn’t work on all social medias. Take Facebook for example, they show all that info in your profile allowing haters to hate

      • Izzy
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        You are the only user with the username Efwis@lemmy.zip. Nobody else can have that username.

          • Izzy
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            I don’t understand the question.

            • @SCB
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              Capital I and lowercase l look alike.

              It’s a play on that joke.

        • @[email protected]
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          This is true, just like I have an ml account too. But I wouldn’t put past someone to create another account on another instance with efwis and start some shit because I hurt their feelings. So far that hasn’t been an issue but there is a first time. Especially since the username doesn’t show what instance your’re on on the feeds

    • @woelkchenM
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      Che, that means drama incoming.

      Beehaw hasn’t been in the news lately…

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      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

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

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          It’s just using cloudflare. So likely your private data is just temporarily stored on the CloudFlare node in your region and in Germany.

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        Hmm hosted in Germany that’s not reassuring.