Wow, since my post yesterday, lemmy.world has added 2000+ new users to cross the 30000 user mark! Just think, it was only at 20k three days ago. Crazy growth.

With that, lemmy.world is the clear second largest lemmy instance and has left the third largest instance beehaw.org’s 12k in the dust. It’s now within 6000 users to overtake the #1 spot from lemmy.ml (their registration is closed). Exciting to see this growth!

What are some of your favorite communities on lemmy.world so far?

To track lemmy’s growth: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

  • Ulu-Mulu-no-die@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    it was only at 20k three days ago.

    It was less than 500 when I joined 10 days ago :D

    The server itself is pretty new also, I think Ruud created it the first few days of June, huge props to him!

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    Great job Ruud!!

    This will probably increase the cost of operationg and maintaining the server to keep this level of excellent server uptime.

    A kind reminder that we can support Lemmy World and donate thru Patreon / Open Collective

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    1 year ago

    I’ve joined two days ago and so far I’m really liking it, it seems like a nice alternative and there’s something about it that really feels fresh, I think it’s the fact that it’s kind of slow content wise as of now since it takes time to build communities but that just makes me appreciate it even more.

    we’re witnessing something great taking place and I’m glad I’m part of it.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly reminds me a lot of the digg migration - the amount of people joining a Lemmy instance is staggering

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      To me it feels like the soul of the old internet in the look and convenience of the modern internet. I am not sure if that’s the right assumption since, but I feel like this decentralised, anyone can make a forum and host it and connect to others (fediverse) is what the internet was supposed to be like, a way to share information amongst each other

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    1 year ago

    As a reddit refugee it feels great to see Lemmy grow, and even better when you’re on the winning instance!! :)

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        1 year ago

        I was on Beehaw, but made an account over here so I can switch between the two since they’re defederated. Someone said it’s actually better to be on another instance since you can access both.

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      1 year ago

      So, are you excited for the new NFL season or are you more into college football? Let’s talk fantasy football. My work buddies insist on using the ESPN app. But the Yahoo fantasy app is so much better.

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    It’s been amazing to see how fast this has all grown. There are seem real, sizeable communities here now!

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    1 year ago

    lemmy.ml’s mods are marxists and pro-China, even in favor of the fascist atrocities, such as the Uyghur genocide/ethnocide and the Tiananmen Square massacre. Lemmy is open-source and they have indicated that people should use other servers if they don’t believe in those ideals because they mod that server with them in mind. Don’t use lemmy.ml as your base server unless you are a tankie extremist like then.

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      in favor of the fascist atrocities, such as the Uyghur genocide/ethnocide and the Tiananmen Square massacre

      Those are pretty bold and specific claims. Source?

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          I feel conflicted about this. Many of the tech guys in Silicon Valley have atrocious, Techo-fascists views (for example Huffman saying that shit about being on top on the post-apocalypse), and I use their products. And it’s not like smart people that have produced good things can’t have horrible views (see Noam Chomsky on Ukraine). But it’s pretty irrefutable that the lemmy.ml guys are red fascists pro-genocide. It leaves a bitter taste in my mouth to have created an account here.

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          I feel conflicted about this. Many of the tech guys in Silicon Valley have atrocious, Techo-fascists views (for example Huffman saying that shit about being on top on the post-apocalypse), and I use their products. And it’s not like smart people that have produced good things can’t have horrible views (see Noam Chomsky on Ukraine). But it’s pretty irrefutable that the lemmy.ml guys are red fascists pro-genocide. I hope it doesn’t grow much, but I get the feeling that if their mods go full tyrant banning anti-China comments they will lose a lot of people there.

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          I feel conflicted about this. Many of the tech guys in Silicon Valley have atrocious, Techo-fascists views (for example Huffman saying that shit about being on top on the post-apocalypse), and I use their products. And it’s not like smart people that have produced good things can’t have horrible views (see Noam Chomsky on Ukraine). But it’s pretty irrefutable that the lemmy.ml guys are red fascists pro-genocide. It leaves a bitter taste in my mouth to have created an account here.

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          I feel conflicted about this. Many of the tech guys in Silicon Valley have atrocious, Techo-fascists views (for example Huffman saying that shit about being on top on the post-apocalypse), and I use their products. And it’s not like smart people that have produced good things can’t have horrible views (see Noam Chomsky on Ukraine). But it’s pretty irrefutable that the lemmy.ml guys are red fascists pro-genocide. I hope it doesn’t grow much, but I get the feeling that if their mods go full tyrant banning anti-China comments they will lose a lot of people there.

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      1 year ago

      Aren’t they also the developers of Lemmy itself? I would guess that is what Lemmy is kind of a play on; Lennin-Marxist. Pretty funny…

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    1 year ago

    As a neighbor, I appreciate your empty defederation list. Too many lemmy instances start off with the atom bomb instead of user or community bans in response to bad behavior from individuals.

    I hope you have lots of success. This side of the fediverse really needs more intellectual diversity, and I get the feeling that’s what I’ll continue to see from lemmy.world.

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      The only thing I’d be okay with defederating from is lemmygrad. It’s only half satire and a wholeheartedly hateful place. It’s a fast track to the reddit communities that would be removed for spreading hate and extremism. It’s enevitably going become a misinformation chamber. Fuck that place… Should cut the cancer out now before it metastasizes.

    • Sparking@lemm.ee
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      My main understanding is that lemmy.ml was the original instance hosted by the devs, and they want to focus their time on developing the platform rather than moderating new users. They also have some stricter mod rules over there.

      But the whole intention was to get others to start hosting instances, so everything is going as planned.

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      i keep reading here and on reddit that that it’s an alt right instance, and they don’t want non alt right people joining. but that’s hearsay.