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Instance getting too centralized? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I feel like this instance is getting too big and all the content is being centralized here. Am I right or there are other instances thriving too?

Wherever I go I keep seeing lots of lemmy.world users and communities and kind of feel worried about centralization.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

You can check stats on instances here.

lemmy.world is #2 by total user count (lemmy.ml being the 1st), but #1 by active users.

And judging by the Local posts and Local comments count, it seems that .world users interact more with communities in other instances than the local ones, unlike the other top instances.

So I would dare to say that your concern over content being monopolized by .world (based on subscribers to local communities) isn't founded - high number of users, but they tend to subscribe and interact more with communities on other instances.

This is of course anecdotal (same as your example), but I tend to see the opposite in my feed - few posts from communities on .world. It's very subjective based on what you subscribed to.

The high number of users on .world is because it still has open registration (server was recently upgraded beyond current capacity).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Where's kbin on that list?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Good question, didn't notice that.

Edit: I briefly forgot that kbin uses a different source code / platform than Lemmy, even though still uses federation and ActivityPub and counts as part of the fediverse. So it's counted separately here.

Same like Mastodon, Matrix etc which are different platforms that have the ability to federate with some of the other fediverse platforms like Lemmy.

And also just now I learned that kbin has multiple instances, so it's like its own thing, not just a Lemmy-federated instance.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the lazy, kbin.social has more active users than all of lemmy combined but a lot less posts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Dav @hydra @314xel @pilvlp just like joining a gym but not using it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interestingly, Active users ~= Total users on kbin.social. But I have no idea how that Active number is computed for either lemmy or kbin on that site.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

kbin.social is really new, so it doesn't surprise me that active ≈ total.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

we're literally a month old, so MAU and total users should be pretty much identical right now lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or joining one gym and going to another gym of the same franchise. Just like I'm doing now, hello from kbin :)

I've seen a lot of kbin users interacting with the rest of the fediverse, I think because it has a better sorting, it's easier for us to find new threads on other instances.