My dumbass thought "Why do you need three zeroes after the decimal place" until I realized some countries in Europe have the comma and the dot backwards
Having trouble replying directly to your comment, but yeah, agreed with your points. I’m posting mostly for record keeping. The lemmy instance with the most accounts seems to be a bot farm with no activity (yet) whatsoever. Ridiculous.
The idea is that there is not only one big instance, but various instances that compliment each other. So the current cap of Lemme.world is around one million users according to Ruud, one of the admins. In that case, we need other intstances to make this work.
In fact, I suggest the opposite. Make it look the same, remove the branding from Lemme.world and name it Lemmy, everywhere. The url does not matter to the most people and can cause confusion. Fediverse is already busy inplementing a more seamless experience, such as the merge for sublemmys on different instances.
The concept should be easy to understand. As of right now, the Lemmy concept is not hard to understand but for the avarage Joe it can take some time to get used to.
In fact, I suggest the opposite. Make it look the same, remove the branding from Lemme.world and name it Lemmy, everywhere. The url does not matter to the most people and can cause confusion.
For practicality and convenience, that's ok. I'm just trying to imagine Fediverse as a mall whose every shop with various items has distinct interior design and features(UI/policies/gameplay/...). That would be awesome?
I think it's possible to belong to more than one form of social media, it isn't an either/or situation. Also it's way too early to project how any of this is going to end, it reminds me of the early days of the internet in miniature as people scrambled around trying new things. I say throw everything at the wall and lets see what sticks and if beehaw makes people happy and gives people that don't feel safe other places somewhere that they can be online I think it's great. Not everything is for everyone and that's OK, if we all liked the same thing vanilla would be the only ice cream flavor.
Doesn't seem very practical, something like this being possible (one click from account settings) would be very useful for the decentralization of the platform.
The active user-count increased by ~10% over the last 2d while registered user count increased 400%. The registered user growth is absolutely not "real". Now... 10% over 2d is still massive growth... Lemmy IS growing. But it's not doubling every 24h.
They can normally if their instance is not defederatd.
But if beehaw defederate some instance, only the one from their own instance can see and interact with their post.
So for example, I have an account in lemmy.world and posting it to beehaw tech community. Other user from lemmy.world can see my post and reply normally. But other user from other instances (including beehaw itself) can't even see the post.
Basically like shadowban in reddit but for all users in an instance
An instance is just the word people use on the Fediverse for "Fediverse website". It's often preceded by the name of the platform the website is running, eg "Lemmy instance" or "Mastodon instance".
It's kind of like saying "WordPress website".
Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.one, Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ca, beehaw.org, sh.itjust.works, etc are all different websites running Lemmy, so they're Lemmy instances. Mastodon.social, mstdn.social, Mastodon.world, tenforward.social, etc. Are all just different websites running Mastodon.
Fediverse websites have the ability to request and mirror content in an ongoing manner from users or groups (which is what a Lemmy community is, a Fediverse group managed by a Lemmy server) on other Fediverse websites. From other "instances". This gives an imperfect illusion of everyone being in the same place, when we're actually spread across a dozen (or over 10,000,of you count the entire Fediverse) websites or more.
No that's literally what you don't need to do. You only need one account, your instance will talk to other instances to bring you content from the whole network, to your one account. That includes the ability to comment on it, and interact with, etc.
To me it's just another security layer. If one instance goes down, or an account gets hacked/banned etc I can just swap over to another one. Also I have different sets of subscriptions for each account, so if I'm looking for a different flavor of my feed I just swap to the associated account.
I saw that one of the largest Lemmy's hadn't had 3 names taken that are high value (to me at least) so I snatched up the three I use often or really wanted. I've always dreamed of being one of the like Phil@gmail.com and now I am!
It could come in handy not only as username reserve, just found out you can follow mastodon users from kbin (you can't in lemmy), maybe it's well know already but for me everything is still a discovery :D
For anyone curious, here are some relevant tickets for the major FOSS git forges discussing implementing federation - there's a lot of interest so it seems like it's only a matter of time before this happens.
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