Why does lemmy.world, the largest instance, not simply eat the other instances?
Then it would just be Reddit all over again.
I try to avoid eating sh.it, but you do you.
I’d upvote this comment twice if I could. :D
Centralization is bad
is there a !woosh for the replies to your comment?
This this originate from Friends or did they reference some other movie thingy?
Nope, that was a Futurama original.
So we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users… for free… Hmm yes that’s going to work.
People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies.
We’re in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it’s not going to last.
I don’t think a Wikipedia-style donation system would be bad. It’s better than ads.
I’m sure how the ecosystem of Lemmy will play out is that there are a handful, maybe 6 or 7, main instances that require funding and are simply massive with teams committed to them. Then you have the niche medium sized instances that are known for a particular community or two, such as an instance that is well known for its great vegetarian community or whatever. Then you’ll have tiny instances that are used by irl friend groups, or for simply tech savvy people that want a home base instance that they can control.
We’re already sort of set up like this, but less organized and smaller overall. Many instances have duplicates of the same communities right now which I think will slowly fade away as future updates make it easier to visit/search other instances.
I’m expecting the location specific instances to split off though (shout out to my squad fams at aussie.zone) so that they don’t get lost in the mix of the major general communities.
We wouldn’t want beehaw or lemmygrad.
obligatory it’s inevitable
it’s impossible for me to see this image without picturing that dog’s face in the dust storm
edit: for the uninformed
Woah how the hell did you do that arrow
Just put an image in a spoiler! You can hit the little
icon under my post to check out the source and see exactly how I did it.Woah
But now how did you put the paper icon in your previous message
Funny you ask, it’s actually really cool how it just worked.
I used ShareX to take a screenshot of it, which was then saved to my clipboard (but you can use any screenshotting tool that saves to your clipboard, such as the built in Windows snip tool. I just love ShareX). Then I CTRL+ V’d it in the middle of the comment I was making and it just worked - auto uploaded with the proper syntax and everything. I was kind of shocked tbh.
It’s a spoiler, you can view source of the message
Strange, the spoiler doesn’t work for me. I just see “::: spoiler” then the image.
Damn it, I specifically joined this one because it was less popular.
Oh well lol
@Olgratin_Magmatoe I joined kbin.social for the same reason, yet…
99.5% uptime is very impressive for a community that is experiencing such explosive growth.
Please someone tell me how to delete accounts off of memmy app it drives me nuts seeing both because it loads the one I don’t want to load.
Add that as a feature request on his GitHub. If you don’t know how to I’ll do it for you
Alternatively the discord server just got a feedback channel, you can suggest it there
Over in kbin.social… wondering if there will be a simple way to consolidate duplicate magazines/communities
It’d be interesting to have metamagazines or something along the like. There’s a lot of repeat mags out there that would benefit from an easy way to share/federate at a smaller scale than per-instance.
I’d like something in this vein to view multiple communities of the same topic at once (like folders/multi-reddits/etc.) too.
Another idea, if possible, might be to have Lemmy search for existing communities/magazines in linked instances as you’re trying to make a community, similar to how it searches for already posted links, so that folks are given a heads up to those existing communities. If they want to go on to make their own local version then it’s just up to them.
Congrats on the growth .world!
I did read that @Ruud said in a post that Lemme.world can handle 1 million users as of right now.
He hopes that other instances get more traction so the crowds are distributed.
Go daddy
Any idea how many might be bots?
I don’t think we have that many. The instances that were victims of bot attacks grew by more than 10k in less than a day. This instance’s growth has been steady at 1k~2k per day with the captcha enabled.
I believe we also have one of the best active users to total user ratios in the ‘Lemmyverse’, at least for instances of this size. Fun stuff.
Also when we were hit with bots Mailgun immediately blocked emails for this instance, which proves that it’s a very rare thing.
For some reason, when I tried to sign up for another instance, it wouldn’t send the confirmation emal or load when I tried to send it. I guess this is the only working instance that is easy to get to.
For me, it’s because the password I entered didn’t meet the minimum requirements. The instance signup page had some kind of issue with actually letting me know that was the problem, it just gave me the spinning pinwheel forever. I refreshed and tried changing the password to something more complex and it worked instantly
For some reason, I was able to bring the same name, password, and everything here and it worked. That other server did want a rather complex password and both said the password was “medium” strength. The first one I tried did return me to the landing page as if it took, and said “email sent” without an email actually arriving. I’m guessing that it was just buggy.
Unfortunately I don’t have much faith in this social network until the bot issue is addressed. There is a huge contingent of spambots just waiting for their moments here.
Spam bots or spam servers? Everyone is saying regulate signups for servers but anyone can spin up a Lemmy server and spam with thousands of accounts until they are defedarated. Then 5 minutes later do it again with a new server. It’s not hard to setup a Lemmy server.
I actually think this is a non-issue , sure it will be a pain for a while but the decentralized model will easily adapt to this IMO. Its not like reddit was immune from bots eh.
An example is how obviously you can spot the bad actors here. I do not think is will be any more challenging indeed I think it will be easier to counter
Yeah, a nice feature of federation is that real communities can adjust their sign-up processes to minimize bot sign-ups, and while determined botfarms can spin up their own servers, that leads to pretty much the least controversial use case for admins to block another server.
Mastodon’s run into similar issues in the past with both bots and scrapers and typically no one has any issue with admins there defederating and entirely blocking those servers.
Until they startblockingg new servers that are harmless
As far as I can tell from here, kbin.social has about as much people on it.
Can I join kbin.social with Lemmy clients or do I need a separate app?
Might have to test that one out yourself. Ofcourse you can subscribe to kbin.social communities from your lemmy.world instance but if you can actually add them that’s another question. Let me know :P
Glad to be part of this new phenomenon. Long live Lemmy.
Now that’s only a little sus
robots need community too! /s
Nice, what is this k6qw instance about, though? So many users and just 1 community without any posts?
It does seem a little out of balance. We should ask @gaylord@lemmy.k6qw.com how/why they’re personally reviewed 38,000 email-less sign up statements in under 7 days and who they think is populating his server (according to one of his posts from a week ago).
(not sure my tag syntax was correct… maybe @gaylord@lemmy.k6qw.com autolinking works?)
