If you have been here for long enough and settled in and now finally feel comfortable with Lemmy, I highly advice you to move to smaller instances. I just newly left Lemmy.world to join Lemm.ee.

We need to capitalize on the decentralized nature of the Fediverse and Lemmy instead of having everyone joining one instance. This will benefit the admins of Lemmy.world a lot as they would not have to deal with such a high amount of users. It also leaves room for new users to join and have a good experience rather than an experience filled with server outages where they will give up on Lemmy.

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[–] Eddie@lemmy.lucitt.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I started on lemmy.world, then decided to learn self-hosting server infrastructure and made my own instance. Found a script that allows me to "auto-discover" all communities from given instance URLs, so I just added the instances that interest me. Boom, I have an instance with all of my favorite instances searchable and discoverable on "All".

For those interested in the script you can find it here. Do note that you should NOT use the default settings and make sure to use an instance whitelist, otherwise it'll pull every instance ever.

[–] Mookulator@wirebase.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really want to see a data viz of whether/how much users are spreading out. Anyone got the data on user counts over time by instance?

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Use 1m column for monthly active users

[–] Serpardum@lemmyonline.com 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I get irritated when browsing and a message is on another server and it asks me to log in again. Starting to make me mad.

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[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's exactly what I thought when I signed up. Well not in those terms because I didn't know much vocabulary for it then. But in general I like underdogs, so I went with a smaller one. I have no idea how big any of them actually are, but I know the big 2, and a handful of other common ones.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

Use 1m column for monthly active users

[–] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't see a 1m column, but the users count column gave me some context.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

You need to use "All columns"

[–] chrisbit@leminal.space 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given I haven't advertised it anywhere, I'll take this opportunity to shamelessly plug the open instance I run: leminal.space.

The default theme's a bit quirky, but you can change that in your settings if it's not your bag.

[–] Teal@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your theme looks great! Nice design chrisbit.

[–] chrisbit@leminal.space 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks. I can't take credit for the design though because it's using the vaporwave theme that comes with Lemmy as a base with some modifications.

[–] Teal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

In that case, nice choice!

[–] StalksEveryone@lemmy.villa-straylight.social -4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

too bad the ‘other’ lemmy world is spammed by communist propaganda

[–] Deez@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The other lemmy world?

[–] StalksEveryone@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 2 points 2 years ago

@lemmy.ml

[–] markr@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Too bad this Lemmy.world gets spammed by rightwing propaganda.

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