Okay, it’s actually 18955 at the time of this post. I’m looking at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and lemmy.world has already passed beehaw.org by a large margin for second place.

Can’t wait for this place to start filling out!

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    I think it’s growing the fastest from all the servers since you don’t have to write a line or two for the application!

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      It’s also worth pointing out it’s hosted by the same person who hosts Mastodon.world, which is a stable, trustworthy and large Mastodon instance.

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        These were the two factors for me. I tried heehaw first, but after submitting my application and waiting an hour or so, I still couldn’t get in. Whether or not the application is a good idea overall, it’s a barrier to entry. With the blackout I finally decided to be a brave boy and try to figure out the fediverse, and after overcoming that major hurdle I’m met with a literal gatekeeper. I haven’t bothered to check if I ultimately got in since I have am account here now.

        So then I’m right back to the drawing board doing searches figuring out which other servers are stable, have decent policies, aren’t run by sketchy folks, etc. It was a lot, but this servers reputation having run a mastodon server is what got me to come here.

        I think a lot of people are like me and will get curious about lemmy and want to dive in one afternoon to see what it’s about. They don’t want to spend an afternoon researching like their setting up a smart home ecosystem. Then to be met with gatekeeping, your going to lose people. Maybe that’s fine in the grand scheme of things.

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          That’s the part I enjoyed the most. Writing a short description on the application page at Beehaw. And now that I’m in it. I can say that it’s the best instance currently. The people and the community is great. I haven’t seen a troll or a complainer in the instance in Beehaw. I have many accounts in other instances and Im assured that Beehaw is where it’s at.

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            Beehaw doesn’t have the right attitude for a federated environment. They are having problems moderating and dealing with the sudden jump in traffic, so they cut off the largest server. What they should have done is get more help.

            They are breaking lemmy because they are self centered. They only care about beehaw. They don’t care about all of lemmy.

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              I agree that it’s not the right attitude, I don’t agree that they’re breaking anything.

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                Whena person posts to anything@beehaw.org and never ever gets a reply, and sees other posts getting replies, are they going to stick with lemmy? No, they are going to go back to reddit. To me, that’s breaking the platform.

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      Heh writing the application was part of the fun! :D No, really, I think that at least in Beehive, it is an important step: It ensures a minimum understanding of the environment of the instance and its mission, and as long as the option to join other instances is there, why not?

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    It’s pretty exciting! I’m really enjoying this new platform. Not filled with ads and the comments feel a lot more genuine.

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        Ugh that was my biggest gripe with reddit. Open a thread just to see the same 5 jokes repeated over and over in different ways to try and reap karma.

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          I began using reddit in 2017. I never really realized there had been a decline in quality until I recently ended up on some threads from 2017ish. I think some of it had to do with the change from a very desktop-oriented, forum-style page, to a dumbed-down mobile-friendly experience. The emphasis is now heavy on pictures, videos, instant messaging, avatars, online status, shiny award bling, infinite scrolling, etc. Reddit may not have intended it, but I feel like their target age demographic is much lower now. I’m shocked at how many regular users are still in high school or even middle school. I’d guess the kids are the ones repeating the funny jokes en masse. They’re just kids being kids, but it gets old sometimes.

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          That’s why I left the Always sunny in Philadelphia subreddit. I joined to talk about the show but Every.single.comment. is a joke or line from the show. Almost no one would engage in an actual discussion or conversation.

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      There aren’t any karma bots yet. No one is making useless comments like “this.” The conversations are civil. I’m loving this community!

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        I think the federated nature of the platform may help to reinforce those positive attributes. Unmoderated instances with low quality content are at risk of being defederated, and as evident by the mod log, the mods do enforce rules on inflammatory and low quality content.

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          Does lemmy.world have any unfederated instances? I was preferring the freedom of chosing to block communities myself but I started running into some very toxic posts that make me feel like I took a wrong turn and I’m gonna get stabbed in a dark alley lol! I’d rather stick to the friendly, positive and useful posts. I would rather avoid that aspect of Reddit here.

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    in just 2 days this place has exploded with content, its easier to stay away from reddit now.

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    I mean, sure some are probably people making multiple accounts, but based on the speed of new posts showing up I’d believe there are at least 20k on lemmy.world. It’s the largest and most stable instance at the moment.

    Personally I run my own instance and connect to the communities from there.

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      Hello 👋 new to fediverse - what are the benefits of running your own and connecting in to these communities, compared to just making an account on an instance that already exists?

      I imagine if you run your own, you don’t lose access to your account compared to if, say, your account is in lemmy.world and it goes down. Is there more to it?

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        That’s pretty much it for me. There’s a lot of complexity in hosting that you don’t have to do if you use someone else’s instance. There’s a risk that their server goes down, but most people who start big servers know what they’re doing.

        Its also advantageous to join the instance you want to interact most in. Interacting across instances is possible but still a little buggy. It’s harder to find communities, and once you do, sometimes posts don’t load.

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        In addition to that,

        • I like the challenge of leaning new technologies and hosting my own web apps
        • It lets me feel that I have a bit more control over my user and posts
        • I get my own vanity domain / user address
        • I get a good understanding of how the lemmy frontend, backend and database work (yay open-source!)
        • I can keep my instance up to date with the latest lemmy releases (some are still running 0.17.3!)
        • I can do some dev work and testing on my instance, if I want, without impacting others
        • it reduces load on the main instances

        There’s more, but I think that’s a good enough list for now. Have a nice day!

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    It looks like a lot of new communities are popping up on Lemmy world so people might be joining it to post in one of the new communities.

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    Oh no. I keep trying to move down to the next level of smaller but well-organised sites that are running smoothly, and they all keep growing like crazy. It’s like I’m part of the problem or something.

    Watch out feddit.uk, I’m coming for you next!

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      come on over, we have greggs, we can eat that to pass the downtime if it happens

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        Haha, there’s a tricky calculation to be done there depending on how long they’ve been out of the oven versus how long the downtime is if you want to avoid being over or under steak-baked.

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    Joined Monday, started two communities, subbed to what I like, and making an effort to post way more than I did elsewhere. Joined LW because lemmy.ml had issues Monday and I really didn’t understand the difference. Using Jerboa on the phone, its all working way more smoothly than I thought it would

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      burggit.moe is the only instance blocked by lemmy.world. what’s the deal with that server?

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    So, I’m still seeing a ‘pending’ status for mine. I signed up on both beehaw and lemmy.world, and I was really hoping to be able to help grow both, but I can’t create a community on beehaw, so I’m just sitting here waiting to be approved(?) on lemmy.world to be able to do that. I think. I’m not sure I’ve got much of this as figured out as everyone else.

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    Do we want the lemmy.world to be the fastest growing, though? At some point it will require server capacity beyond what the admins can easily provide, and then the Lemmy experience will be worse for those of us with our home here.

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    26,000 plus as of 15.46 gmt Came here to post new music, found no sub, oh no it community here of course, so had to make one, hoping someone comes and says it was there idea originally so I can hand it off, lol