That’s not how federation works. You can still interact with lemmy.world and its users from another instance, but spreading out not only helps with lemmy.world’s load, but also the fediverse.
That’s not how federation works. You can still interact with lemmy.world and its users from another instance, but spreading out not only helps with lemmy.world’s load, but also the fediverse.
Almost definitely, it’s hard to imagine there’s a community on lemmy.world that not one of the 20k users have susbcribed to
Pretty much any of the top 5 instances already subscribe to each others communities. Definitely not missing out on lemm.ee either!
One can easily get around that by simply subscribing to more communities!
It’s actually really bad. With how big it is, it’s now the default for even new mobile applications, which means it will now only grow bigger. 5x is just the start. We are just seeing the start of the centralised decentralised Lemmyverse.
Is it really federated social media now though? With how much .world has grown, they could disable federation and be their own walled garden.
instance | active users monthly |
---|---|
lemmy.world | 34436 |
lemmy.ml | 6716 |
lemm.ee | 4265 |
Like, they have nearly 5x more active users than .ml at this point, how ridiculous is that?
I agree, but it’s too late now. Even Sync defaults to the .world instance, and at this rate, they’ll only grow bigger.
You want to defederate from the largest Lemmy instance, the poster child, and the mascot of Lemmy? Good luck. They are Lemmy now.
Well, it’s their instance, they can do what they want with it. You should definitely save your $ and setup your own instance so you can federate with whatever you want.
probably it’s just not worth it attacking smaller instances? lemmy.world is such a juicy target given how big it is.
Yup, genuine problem, they seem to be flapping for the last hour or so since they put it behind CF. Probably just a misconfiguration on their end, but this shows how important it is to diversify and spread out, instead of putting all your metaphorical eggs in the lemmy.world basket.
hopefully not, they do have a good portion of communities.
inb4 lemmygrad
he’s an astroturfer though, is he really low enough to stoop to ddos? thankfully the fediverse is diverse and resilient to attacks to any one instance lol
One good way would be HTTP response times from the API, since that is not something that would be cached by Cloudflare at the edge.
That’s a terrible justification. lemmy.world is using Hetzner, and not a CDN whereas lemmy.ca is using Cloudflare, which is a CDN. Pinging is a terrible benchmark for comparing server performance.
That is still the 7th largest instance. I’m glad it still works out for you, but I’m still not a fan of how the entire fediverse can be summarised in the top few instances.
How about no? No instance in the fediverse should grow as unsustainably as lemmy.world or lemmy.ml. People should naturally diversify into the smaller instances because that is what a federated Lemmyverse is supposed to be about.
That is such a take.
The point of federation means that even an instance with just a handful of users, can participate in larger communities on other servers that may have thousands of users. From that thousands of users, may also include handful of users FROM other instances. That’s the beauty of federation. While a community needs to be on one instance, the people do not.
I’m on a server with <50 users, and yet I’m still subscribed to the larger communities, and enjoying in delightful conversations with people such as yourself. Why am I on server with <50 users? Simply because it performs better, and through the magic of federation, doesn’t require me to have to register to a server halfway around the globe just because everyone else is there too.
I have no idea what led you to believe that there’s no use-cases for smaller instances, and I would definitely like to hear the arguments behind it.
Again, for the purposes of smaller Lemmy instances (< thousand users), there is hardly a requirement for any kind of load balancing. Having one, is my definition and rationale for calling it fancy. It’s over-engineering a solution that is not a problem for majority of instances. Your arguments thus far would apply to larger Lemmy instances, even Reddit-lite, but that’s not what federation is about. It’s not a bunch of large instances forming a fenced community and gatekeeping the tiny ones out.
As long as it isn’t actual credentials from reputable sites, it’s almost definitely a scam lol