Wow, since my post yesterday, lemmy.world has added 2000+ new users to cross the 30000 user mark! Just think, it was only at 20k three days ago. Crazy growth.
With that, lemmy.world is the clear second largest lemmy instance and has left the third largest instance beehaw.org’s 12k in the dust. It’s now within 6000 users to overtake the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (their registration is closed). Exciting to see this growth!
What are some of your favorite communities on lemmy.world so far?
I've joined two days ago and so far I'm really liking it, it seems like a nice alternative and there's something about it that really feels fresh, I think it's the fact that it's kind of slow content wise as of now since it takes time to build communities but that just makes me appreciate it even more.
we're witnessing something great taking place and I'm glad I'm part of it.
To me it feels like the soul of the old internet in the look and convenience of the modern internet. I am not sure if that's the right assumption since, but I feel like this decentralised, anyone can make a forum and host it and connect to others (fediverse) is what the internet was supposed to be like, a way to share information amongst each other
As a neighbor, I appreciate your empty defederation list. Too many lemmy instances start off with the atom bomb instead of user or community bans in response to bad behavior from individuals.
I hope you have lots of success. This side of the fediverse really needs more intellectual diversity, and I get the feeling that's what I'll continue to see from lemmy.world.
The only thing I'd be okay with defederating from is lemmygrad. It's only half satire and a wholeheartedly hateful place. It's a fast track to the reddit communities that would be removed for spreading hate and extremism. It's enevitably going become a misinformation chamber. Fuck that place... Should cut the cancer out now before it metastasizes.
I was on Beehaw, but made an account over here so I can switch between the two since they're defederated. Someone said it's actually better to be on another instance since you can access both.
So, are you excited for the new NFL season or are you more into college football? Let's talk fantasy football. My work buddies insist on using the ESPN app. But the Yahoo fantasy app is so much better.
Why the lemmy.ml registration is closed? Is it to give a chance for other instances to grow? Or because of they cant handle the sudden new users surge?
My main understanding is that lemmy.ml was the original instance hosted by the devs, and they want to focus their time on developing the platform rather than moderating new users. They also have some stricter mod rules over there.
But the whole intention was to get others to start hosting instances, so everything is going as planned.
Let's here it for ruud, and all of us! Been really enjoying chopping it up with yous. I'm glad I randomly picked lemmy.world. (: thanks to whoever put up the link in some random reddit thread!
this seems like a strange place to post about that; too off-topic in my mind. but nevertheless i'm glad to have found said community and did subscribe. you could promote your new community in a place like this: [email protected]
Fantastic! When I joined the week before the reddit blackout I believe there was something like 2,000 users. Such huge growth in a short amount of time! Consider donating a few bucks monthly to help with server costs. I'm doing my part!
I’m still having challenges getting an account to actually go through at Lemmy.World. I’m able to see content from another instance, but I’m a fan of looking at “all” as it opens up a lot of great content that you might not catch otherwise, so having multiple accounts at multiple sites is something I’m planning for at this point.
FYI, if you’re having trouble signing up, there are 3 known possible reasons when the wheel keeps spinning: username already taken, username too long (>20), and password too long. Hopefully lemmy fixes that soon.
I haven't had a chance to look at the Lemmy code, but is it really limiting password length? There's almost no valid reason to do this since it's just going to get hashed, and all the hash lengths are going to be the same regardless of the input string.
Is there a way to find out which instance is defederated from which or a common list. I would not know about beeshaw defederating if not mentioned here.
You can look at "/instances" from each site, but my first stop would be https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances because you'll get a quick overview by how many instances each instance is blocked and how many instances an instance has blocked
How many more users could be added?
I know that lemmy has never been so popular so we can't really know, and that it will mostly depend on the hardware used, but have there already been any load tests that might give an idea?
I think I saw ruud or another dev saying the upgrade they did the other day will allow for pretty substantial growth before another hardware upgrade will be needed, and it's mostly about optimizing now. -Not a tech guy, no source.
That's great, although I'd like to see some others up there as well to keep the fediverse healthy.
Does anybody know what the hardware specs are that lemmy.world runs on? It would be nice to get an idea of the hardware requirements to scale up that far.
Update The server was migrated. It took around 4 minutes downtime. For those who asked, it now uses a dedicated server with a AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores “Rome” CPU and 128GB RAM. Should be enough for now.
Honestly as this tech matures I would expect like minded communities to end up running their own instances. Like photographers and such. Right now it's still in it's infancy.
I don't know why someone would be suspicious of you just for asking this question, but it's probably impossible to know that with any accuracy without intolerable user data leaks.
lemmy.ml’s mods are marxists and pro-China, even in favor of the fascist atrocities, such as the Uyghur genocide/ethnocide and the Tiananmen Square massacre. Lemmy is open-source and they have indicated that people should use other servers if they don’t believe in those ideals because they mod that server with them in mind. Don’t use lemmy.ml as your base server unless you are a tankie extremist like then.
Officially it is the domain of "Mali"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml
Might be also the letters "l" and "m" which are the consonants of lemmy
There is no ".lm" top level domain
That's for http addresses, isn't it? The ending of a lemmy instance is likely completely different - as you don't find url domains ending in ".world" or ".social".