• zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    11 months ago

    goddammit

    i joined dxcomplex because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
    then it folded so i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
    then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name)

    i’m starting to wonder if i’m cursed

    • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Can’t speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I’ve yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.

      Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.

    • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      why do people choose it over other instances?

      Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

      • Durotar@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

        It does, however one must know what is six minus two to get the approval.

          • Dudewitbow@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            11 months ago

            They got aome of the most traffic during the migration, so it pulled itself off the instance list page i think for regiatration so that people would join other instances leveling the load

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      People seem to only want their accounts on “general use” instances that are already pretty popular.

      Which is… bizarre. There is no downside to having your account on a more niche instance (as long as it isn’t so niche that it gets turned off), and there are arguably disadvantages to having your account on a more popular instance.

      • Default@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        A slight advantage to big servers is the increase in anonymity on the backend. Given the server admins can do what ever that want. An admin on small server would no doubt be looking into who and where their individual users are. Big severs are more likely to become more population based. Doesn’t really matter though I suppose.

        • imsodin@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Yeah no exact opposite for me: Big server means lots of user data making abuse of it more appealing and impactful. While an admin of a small instance having some fun digging through user internals would really do no harm (I don’t believe that’s a particularly typical hobby of small instance admins though xD ).

      • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        The disadvantage of being on a small instance is that you could have an admin who is a fucking moron and ends up breaking stuff because they don’t know what they are doing.

        Sauce: am admin. am fucking moron.

      • neutron@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        It’s not easy to see the list of all communities in an instance you don’t have an account. If I login and federate as user@example.com, I can see all the local communities inside example.com, but not others like lemmy.world. I don’t mean individual posts or an individual community, I mean list of all instance communities. I think this is one of high priority issues to be patched.

    • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      01·
      11 months ago

      Most of the times that i see this meme is always censured, they usually take out the part where the woman gets gropped. While i understeand why someone wouldnt whant to share something that contains sexuall harasment, i think its a little silly and very curious how its users self-censored themselvels with this meme, it its very unussual to find it like this in the wild.

      • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        In this version of the meme she’s actually from an alien culture where it’s considered rude not to kiss someone and squeeze their butt after accepting a medal. Their version of “bless you” after a sneeze.

        I swear to god it’s in the show somewhere look it up.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        02·
        11 months ago

        I see only two ways for this to stop happening:

        • Instance admins make a collective pact to close registrations if their instance reaches x% of the total active base, and only open again when this number goes down to x/2%. I think x=10 would be a good start.

        • Instead of donations, instances start charging for access after a certain number. This is what my instance is doing: the first 250 active users are free, after that payment is required.

    • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      This was asked in the lemm.ee discord and the answer given is below.

      Ping times are low everywhere because the files we serve are hosted on globally distributed servers. So if you’re in North America, you will download the frontend code (and images etc) from a North American server. But the backend is actually hosted in Germany

      • Durotar@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        Do you know if personal data (like emails, IP addresses) is also distributed across the world? I mean, this is important from the privacy perspective. Different countries have different rules.

        • w2qw@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          It’s just using cloudflare. So likely your private data is just temporarily stored on the CloudFlare node in your region and in Germany.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    11 months ago

    Significantly less posts and comments when compared to ML. So, a lurkers instance?

  • RickRussell_CA@kbin.social
    11·
    10 months ago

    Oh goody. There’s a RickRussell_CA@lemm.ee and it’s not me. And it’s using one of my older profile pictures.

    EDIT: 2023/8/29 update – I posted to the lemm.ee support community and the admins decided to disable the account. Well done!

    • walden@sub.wetshaving.socialEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      That’s why we disabled the buy-sell-trade community on our niche instance. Nobody got scammed during the short time it was open, but if a username can be duplicated it makes scamming that much easier.

  • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipEnglish
    0·
    11 months ago

    They should probably add a % measure to that to show active users as a % of total users to give a more balanced look at active instances

    • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
      English
      0·
      11 months ago

      What is felt by users is the absolute number rather than the proportion.

        • oce 🐆@jlai.lu
          English
          1·
          11 months ago

          Because when you open and later refresh Lemmy, the quantity of new posts you will see, which gives an idea of Lemmy’s activity, is proportional to the absolute number of active users, not the proportion of active users per instance.

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    11 months ago

    I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.

    • Mereo@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      The other .ml instances had a .ml free domain. Lemmy.ml paid for the domain so it’s in no danger of losing it.

      Edit: further proof that it is a paid domain: