• melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    I wonder if the Jehovah’s witnesses are excited like this when they get a good number of members. /s

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    As wealthy millionaire living my best life, I’m giving 35 grand to anyone who messages “GRACE” on Telegram @Georgestones12 I understand that many people are struggling with bills, and I want to help reduce that burden. It’s a season of love, kindness, and blessings.

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    Doesn’t all of lemmy only have 60k weekly users though? I thought I just read that.

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          It will grow exponentially, though, Reddi’s latest update removed the r/all sub and its pissed off a heck of a lot of users.

          Imo it doesn’t even deserve to have consumers anymore, it’s basically a Facebook newsfeed now, merely without a friends list.

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            It will grow exponentially

            It made a huge jump in 2023 and is mostly declining since then. Unfortunately fediverse observer shut down.

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      We are decentralized, according to FediDB, the Fediverse has 14.2 million accounts. Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin have 551k users. Obviously we could be better spread out, but the fact that there’s no instance at 50% share is already pretty nice.

      And if a big instance enshittified, it would be drastically easier for everyone to leave it compared to convincing people to leave Reddit or something. You just export/import your user settings and you get to keep the communities you’ve subscribed to and block, and the users you’ve blocked.

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      No. The idea is to have the constant looming threat of decentralization to keep the centralized system in check.

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        Except in this there’s really not a lot of benefit when it comes to centralization so it would be better to decentralize to make sure no single instance becomes too big. I’d say world is already a bit too big because 90% of my subscribed feeds would be gone if world no longer federated with Piefed. World has significant sway on our side of the fediverse because smaller instances will probably feel dead (or turn into an echo chamber) if world won’t federate with them.

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      Precisely! What’s the point of an overpopulated instance? It’s more likely to affect users because of blanket instance blocklists.

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          .world is doing its best to replicate every bad thing about reddit (starting with powermods) while avoiding every positive aspect it might have once had. I’m sure its admins have constant wet dreams about the day they can go public and sell it for parts.

          .ml is trying to pretend it’s not lemmygrad by putting on glasses with a fake nose and a moustache.

          Both are toxic and harmful to the fediverse.

          Similar things can be said of most other “big” instances to a lesser extent (including the one I’m in, but I’m too lazy to move out for a third time).

          Frankly, the only instance I’d trust to not be politically compromised is fedinsfw, and I already got bit once by lemmynsfw’s incompetent management (when they lost control of it to a rogue admin and it closed for months), so I’m not going back there.

          Next time I have to move I’ll be rolling my own private instance, or quitting altogether.

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          .ml has a lot of pro-Russia, pro-China types and criticism of either country can lead to a quick ban.

          Functionally, there is no difference. Both run the same software, tho the versions may slightly differ as the devs, who run .ml, push updates.

          For a functionally different experience try Mbin/Kbin (I forget which is the current), or Piefed. Piefed is similar to Lemmy with some quality of life improvements. Kbin/Mbin is a cross between “tweet” style posts, “blog” style posts like tumblr, and Reddit type posts.

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            Ok, I get it that there are pro-China guys, plenty of Russian regime fans around as well. But the thing that really caught me by surprise is that there are seriously people entirely serious about how North Korea is heaven earth.

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          7 hours ago

          ML was run by the Lemmy frontend maintainers who drain the blood of puppies for sustenance and wish to kill you slowly and painfully as a source of income.

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          From my experience, people in .world are way more open to positive discussion than .ml. Everything upsets .ml if you say the wrong thing or dont post the right way, to make them understand. Its to much fucking drama for no reason.

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      All those users are from different instances. That’s decentralized.

      If this community goes down or is otherwise not viable anymore, users can easily find another, similar community, while not having to switch to a different platform or instance or whatever themselves. That’s how this is supposed to work.

      Decentralization with different larger communities on different instances, with community members from all kinds of different instances, baby!

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        It only works if you can bring your block list with you. That’s the only thing of value attached to my profile.

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          You can, it’s easy and quick. I just exported my profile settings (builtin to the default lemmy.world web UI) to a json file in a couple seconds. Confirmed it contains blocked users and communities.

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          Decentralized networks with large centralized communities is the best approach. You have to have that number of people to have interesting conversations and engagement.

          But if all the users are spread out across several instances it becomes more resilient. If a large community/instance goes offline or there’s a controversy then it can be migrated to a new instance

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          It’s good to have it as an option but most people are frustrated if they can’t just go to one place that has tons of people.

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      I can now say I’ve officially joined the .world party, after the craziness from my last post getting deleted, im officially done with them. i might even delete all my other post i did in .ml, those guys are fucking ridiculous for no reason.

  • Miisha ♀️@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    Let’s go Lemmy! It’s nice to see this platform grow. Whether by taking in people from corpo social media platforms or just by people discovering that it’s actually a safe neat little place to exist.
    Keep the Lemmings coming please 💜

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      I decided to drop Reddit recently, it’s an ugly husk of what it once was.

      I typed into Google “Reddit alternatives” and funnily enough, it was from a Reddit post that I learned about Sumit and Lemmy.World.

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        Lemmy.world is very search engine friendly. If you add lemmy to your search, it will usually surface lemmy world

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      Lemmy kind of maintained by really really really terrible people, though. Better off on a different fediverse frontend.

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        I think that’s a personal preference. From what I’ve heard, the devs used to be tankies (fuck those), other devs distanced themselves (I think?), tankies made Lemmy.ml (you can tell by the amount of bullshit on there, lol), some instances defederated from it (good) and now…I think we just go on? Idk, I’m probably completely wrong about that, please correct me. Anyway, fuck tankies.

        I really like Lemmy. I probably won’t leave. Sure, Mastodon works ig, but I’m not a Twitter person. I much prefer the Reddit-style…style of Lemmy. So, forgive me for this, but I’m staying.

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          I see, I was wrong. Checking the Lemmy repository, it seems that nutomic and dessalines still work on it. And yeah, these are hardcore tankies that I strongly disagree with.
          With that said, these people run lemmy.ml. I’m not on lemmy.ml. I really don’t think they can influence me in any way, cause of how Lemmy works. The first thing I do when signing up is block Yogthos, lemmy.ml, all communism communities and the lemmy.ml instance.

          So…don’t judge me for this, but I’m staying, even tho I disagree with the devs. I mean fuck, Elon Musk being human trash doesn’t stop people from using Twitter and I bet way more people use Twitter than there are Lemmy users.

          I slept 5 hours last night and I’m dead (suffering from relationship success) :P
          If anything that I type doesn’t make sense, please correct me!

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      I’m a recent convert. Got banned by Reddit mods, like globally for an anti ICE comment. I called them brownshirts.

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        A lot of people have been banned for similar reasons around the DOGE crackdown. The smallest comment would trigger a ban for “inciting violence.”

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    Can someone connected with Anonymous see if they can get some AI to do a Hugging Bear style DDoS attack on u/Spez? We should Ol’ Yeller Reddit. It’s for the best really.

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        Only one that matters is MAU and that has been flatlining, and going down if you remove the nsfw influx. It’s really not going as well as it should: the internet is growing every day, and reddit, X, FB, and the others are all cozying up to fascism, and we’re struggling to show meaningful growth.

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          Why is it the only one that matters? We aren’t a startup trying to attract VC or go public or something. What matters to the users of Lemmy is how much content is here and whether it’s high quality or just bot spam.