I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.
Regardless of the how, I think it’s really cool that the top instance isn’t run by the devs. Really shows off the power and appeal of decentralized services.
A reddit user made a list of alternative services for reddit. The list was .world, .ml and bee. At this point i didn’t know it’s the same decentralised service. I picked the first one, liked it and made an account after a few days.
My leading theory is that both lemmy.world and lemmy.ml were in a list of 5+ “recommended” communities, and “world” is the only recognizable word that implies all-inclusivity. And now that the world population is so high, more people will assume that is the “default/correct” community.
I joined world because I figured it was a global community, and did not want to limit myself before I even knew what I was joining into. I may end up making 2 or 3 accounts just to have access to separate, possibly defederated, communities.
lemmy.world is defederated from beehaw, which is why I’m not on it.
I chose Lemmy.ee largely because they are federated with every major instance.
I have active accounts in other instances to mimic the multi functionality, where I joined different communities.
When I saw the Lemmy posts making the rounds on Reddit it was all for Lemmy.World, probably why its getting more pop.
Not sure tbh but I do love the Instance I found. Great community it seems and GREAT domain.
I switched to this instance, because lemmy.ml was just too laggy. Also I use mastodon.world so I knew it’s a good instance.
I switched to this instance, because lemmy.ml was just too laggy. Also I use mastodon.world so I knew it’s a good instance.
it was the first instance i found when searching. i think it was a reddit post. so maybe world was more promoted on bigger reddit subs?
Beehaw defederates like it’s going out of style, Lemmy.ml doesn’t allow criticism of the CCP. Lemmy.world seems much more stable and neutral.
Alright guys the software has this defederate feature, now you do you but I suggest thinking of it like a break-glass-in-ca–
<Beehaw swings hammer>
I have an account on .world but lemm.ee is a great name and the admin who runs the instance sounds like a cool guy. Plus .world is already way overloaded so I was looking for another instance.
I tried to sign up with Beehaw.org, but for some reason it was taking forever. So I came here and joined. TBH, I’m still getting the hang of this whole lemmy.<whatever> thing. lemmy.world seemed like a good option.
I’m pretty sure Mental Outlaw helped a lot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c
They weren’t selective about who is joining (unless people were absolute douches) and the community is pretty much nice to get along with.
Lemmy.ml are tankies anyway so, good
Lemmy.world allows creating communities, where as lemmy.ml doesn’t. For me that was a big reason why I moved from lemmy.ml to lemmy.world. (I made this account after beehaw defederated lemmy.world. I would have made this my default account, but sadly there still seems to be some communication issues between instances. I have some communities on lemmy.world, but I don’t see the content sync properly here.)
Beehaw unlinked from Lemmy.world? Yeah will have to go smoke my beehaw account then if I can.
From what I recall (from all of 8 days ago) Beehaw said it was because lemmy.world allowed unrestricted signups and therefore was at risk from bots or (i guess) unsavory people, while Beehaw was trying to have a curated membership to be ‘safe’.
Beehaw seems douchey. Unrestricted sign ups? Like what is this an elite club?
Their stated reason being that currently they don’t feel like they have the moderation tools to remove rule breaking content should a bunch of bots and spammers flood in
I feel like that’s reasonable. Lemmy is still in very active development, and still building up a lot of features. Also, their defederation isn’t meant to be permanent either
It seems somewhat lame or maybe insulting, but on the other hand not every site has to have the same philosophy. Lemmy is essentially forum software and instances don’t have to be federated with any others if they don’t want to be. If someone wanted they could start their own standalone site for Washington Park Roller Skating Club or whatever they want and that would be a fine use of the software.
I wouldn’t call them douchey. It’s not like they’re causing damage to anybody else and there’s nothing wrong with using their own lemmy instance as a local bbs.
That said, I decided not to join them when I saw I would have to go through a sort of interview process explaining how I would contribute to them. They also have a long winded text to say the rules will be applied arbitrarily.
It’s temporary until there are better mod tools - beehaw is supposed to be a safe space but they cannot keep their promise when federating with everyone else due to the amount of posts.
Eh don’t think it’s temporary they are going to be an island onto themselves.
I left Beehaw because the defederated from instances where half my communities were at. Ended up on Lemmy world because they had my favorites.
I started at BeeHaw because they have a lot of cool communities. I didn’t want to write an essay (I’m exaggerating …a little) to sign up for an account so I ended up on sh.itjust.works.
Shit just works, yo.
Haha same. I started at beehaw but am having a hard time manually adding communities that I want to keep in that feed since they aren’t onfederated instances. So I moved to sh.ithust.works and reddthat.
I’ll probably keep beehaw, I like a lot of what it has to offer and it’s cool for it to be a specific corner for me. But one of the others will probably become my default home
At this point I don’t know how I got here and where I’m going and I’m too afraid to ask
