Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy?
101@feddit.org 2 months agoIn my humble opinion, join lemmy should only exclude the instances that is harmful.
They should not choose the instances to include for the users.
I think I generally agree with you, but I don’t think this is a big grievance. Lemmy.world has enough traction as it is, they don’t really need the “publicity” from join-lemmy.org.
It would’ve been better if they had written this as some kind of policy beforehand. Like if they had written somewhere before this pull request something like “any instance with more than 40% of active users may be excluded from the join-lemmy.org listing”, then it would’ve been more reasonable too.
It would have been better if they communicated to us first. I don’t disagree that user signups should be spread over instances. We now have a link to lemmyverse.net on our signup page so people can check if another instance would fit them better.
I posted about this in the admin chat on matrix, but you’re right the pull request was merged very quickly.
The lemmyverse link is also a good idea, but users only see it after filling in their email and password. At that point it’s unlikely that they would cancel it and go to a different website.
Aphelion@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Lemmy.world becoming the default Lemmy instance, and it growing to outsize all other instances is a danger: it makes the Fediverse centralized, easy to take down and easy to take over.
101@feddit.org 2 months ago
The same applies to the main mastodon instance and the same applies really to every Fediverse software available, with the exception of pixelfed.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Why not that one? I’m not familiar with pixelfed.
101@feddit.org 2 months ago
Pixelfed has a default limit to the number of users per instance.