Why does lemmy.world, the largest instance, not simply eat the other instances?
Then it would just be Reddit all over again.
I’d upvote this comment twice if I could. :D
Centralization is bad
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.
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
Damn it, I specifically joined this one because it was less popular.
Oh well lol
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.
99.5% uptime is very impressive for a community that is experiencing such explosive growth.
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.
The captcha seems to be protecting the bigger, older instances, it’s all new instances that you’ve never heard of that randomly have 10k+ bot accounts.
https://the-federation.info/platform/73#drawer-opened
If you scroll to the list of servers and sort by total users, you can see dozens of ghost servers with thousands of accounts and like 10 active users. Alternatively, leave it on the default sorting to see all of the servers that actually have activity.
Should be pretty easy to defederate those instances if the bots start causing problems.
As far as I can tell from here, kbin.social has about as much people on it.
But… is that even a good thing? I mean, the point of the fediverse is to distribute the load across instances.
The point is that everyone CAN start an instance and become bigger. It’s the users that decide.
The upside is join-lemmy.org always puts the smaller but growing instances at the top to somewhat distribute the load for new users. Also there are new general purpose instances popping up, I quite like it and as long as there is no drama you can access most of the Fediverse from almost any instance.
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Over in kbin.social… wondering if there will be a simple way to consolidate duplicate magazines/communities
This is due to bots. Not organic growth.
There’s an awful amount of engagement for it to all be bots. Unless I too am a bot?
We are all bots on this blessed day!
ruud is on it, no bots here. relax and enjoy the ride. :)
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
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
Now can we defederate the .ml tankies?
Not beelibhaw, I’m happy
