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Since my last post yesterday, lemmy.world has added over 3000 new users, bringing the total user count to 22000 today (source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). It firmly holds the position of the second-largest lemmy instance, passing beehaw.org by a large margin of 10000 users.

In other news, beehaw has defederated from lemmy.world a few hours ago. How does the third-largest instance only have 4 ~~mods~~ admins for its 12000 users?!

So much going on!

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I find it very confusing that they are defederating. Beehaw users can choose to watch local content only. Why damage the federation in this crucial time?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Nah, de-federation means they won't be seeing anything from lemmy.world on:

  • local posts
  • lemmy.world posts

They will still see lemmy.world comments on other instances, but lemmy.world posts won't appear on the ALL sorting.

In the same way lemmy.world won't be able to see beehaw posts.

Basically,

  • local only concerns posts that have been submitted on beehaw communities
  • All concerns posts submitted on any instance that is federated and to which at least one user on the instance is subbed to.
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

No, they can choose to see content from local communities. The users posting in those communities, and the people commenting on those posts, can still come from any federated site.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of users joined Lemmy.world due to the open sign ups. Whether they will be lurking or not remains to be seen.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago

Yeah I used to lurk on reddit, but trying to be more active on lemmy.world. I'm a fan of what's going on with lemmy and kbin.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I missed what happened with mastodon.social. What moderation tools were missing?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That's a fun way to call all the moderators tools :D

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw on one of their post that they now have 36 mods, but I guess that's still not enough.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I think you're right, they have 4 admins. Corrected my post. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Exciting to see such incredible growth in such a short time! I do feel like that until moderation tools improve some instances might do something similar to beehaw. Given beehaw noted it was hopefully a temporary solution and they have stricter content guidelines than most instances.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Beware of bots and cyber attacks, dear lemmy!

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

The growth right now is crazy, my chosen site/instance/? is struggling to stay up. Iβ€˜m really excited for this like I havenβ€˜t been for any website in a good decade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What's your chosen instance? And yeah, I haven't been this excited since the whole digg vs. reddit switch back in 2010. And then there's mastodon this past year. I remember reading about needing decentralized social media back then, and now it's finally here.

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