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EDIT: we just crossed 30K π₯³
We are now at 28.5K users (see https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). The top 10 instances also got a decent boost in user count. With the exception of beehaw.org which defederated, the Fediverse is thriving π₯
I signed up for both kbin.social and Lemmy.world as I'm figuring things out. So I'm sure there's plenty of cross over between the members of each community. I just wonder how much.
I firstly signed at lemmy.ml, then kbin and then lemmy.world.
I found kbin more convenient personally for pc use, but both are beautiful and evolving.
I like lemmy.world because it seems to be neutral and doesn't have heavy handed moderators. Communities are allowed to bloom and grow. It's scalable.
I respect what Beehaw wants to do, but their goals are not realistic if they want to be a platform of any significant size.
So far I also like the communities I've seen on Lemmy.ml, but there have been a lot of technical/server issues.
but their goals are not realistic if they want to be a platform of any significant size.
As I understand it, they don't care about being big, they care about having a community of people that align to their principles.
Problem is, if you don't pay too much attention to their server description, you might not realize what their principles are.
I think they got so big because many people were just trying to join any instance under the massive influx, without thinking much about it, and beehaw became much bigger than they intended to be (or expected).
Now that they have defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, people "not intended" to be there are leaving, that should bring them "more down" than they currently are, I think that's what they actually want.
We are also the biggest lemmy instance that still accepts signups ATM
check https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse instead, we have MUCH more users than you think.
Edit: also note that beehaw isn't completely defederated. They only defederated from sh.itjust.works and Lemmy.world.
They defederated from dozens of instances actually
Holy cow! It would probably be easier do just allow those they want to see lol (whitelist instead of blacklist)
LOL letβs hope it is one of the big servers. Need to spread users around.
2nd place!!
itβs weird to see that picture without the doge face in the sandstorm lol
What does it mean that beehaw.ord is defederated?
Everything on Kbin and Lemmy is "federated"
This is basically just a fancy word to say "no matter what server you're on, we can all talk to each other".
It's kind of like E-Mail where no matter if you use GMail or Outlook, you can talk to your friends and colleagues.
When a server defederates from another server, It's like a two-way block.
People on (in this case) beehaw won't see threads, magazines and replies from Lemmy.world and sh.it just.works and people from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works won't see threads, magazines and replies from beehaw.org
Server/Instance admins usually do this when there are instances which spread unwished for content.
This is also why on my profile, there's a link (forum.fail). It's part of my identifier here on the Fediverse (@TGRush@forum.fail).
It means we can't see/talk to them, and vice versa. You may still see old beehaw posts and comments, that were already cached on our side, and can even interact with them, but none of that data will make it to them
Beehaw defederated from lemmy.world. So anything that a lemmy.world user posts on any instance in the fediverse will be invisible to beehaw users. Any posts made on the beehaw instance wonβt be updated to lemmy.world users after defederation. The local βcachedβ version of various beehaw communities still exists on the lemmy.world instance, so we can view that and comment/post/vote there. However all that activity stays on our instance and is invisible to any users from all other instances.
In practical terms, it means we canβt participate in any beehaw communities. We can see posts made by beehaw users on other instances (say a comment by a beehaw user in a lemmy.ml community), but the beehaw user wonβt see any posts made by a lemmy.world user.
Hats off to the creator of LW, it canβt be easy running a server this big. I do hope we donβt just dominate the fediverse though, would kinda defeat the purpose of it.
Funny thing for me, is that Beehaw was the first bit of the Fediverse I ever came across. Tried to sign up, twice, didn't work. So that's how I ended up on .world, the first group I found that didn't want an essay to sign up.
Same. I don't mind a few words to try and convince someone I'm not a bot but it should still be a semiautomatic system (e.g. auto-approve after a few hours if you don't get explicitly denied). I think approvals simply got backed up because 1 or 2 ppl were approving these and it suddenly turned into thousands of applications per hour.
But they do want your email address. Even Reddit didn't require that.
I don't think so. I've signed up on beehaw without an email address.
