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FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

lemmyworld in many ways is still just reddit. don’t get me wrong, I’ve talked to plenty of cool people on there before. but it is the biggest instance that ballooned after the API controversy and a lot of them seem to have just brought Reddit to the fediverse with them. I have no issues with any mods there, I’ve not really seen them at all.

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OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I beg to differ: even Reddit these days is little like Reddit, as it was just prior to the protests. Reddit f-ing died, and Lemmy.World is nothing like that shithole, especially what’s left nowadays with bots copying bots speaking to bots, allowing humans to simply scroll forever.

To any extent that it is like the Reddit of old though, yeah it’s just bc it’s so big. It was guaranteed that some instance would become that, bc people are people - at least here, not like AI-Reddit. 🤡

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- givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  t’s just bc it’s so big
  
  It’s not the World is big…
  
  It’s just everyone else is so small.
  
  Like in the grand scheme of the fediverse we’re all tiny. But of the “reddit clone” instances it might be bigger than everyone else put together even.
  
  I went over to your instance and checked, and yeah, it’s a reddit clone interface too
  
  The structure makes all of us “like reddit” because reddit has always had a shit ton of different small subs with vastly different vibes. A decade ago there was some sub on Reddit that had the exact same vibe your instance has today. That’s just how big reddit was.
  
  Federation just means no one group of admins can seize control, even if World went to shit tomorrow, everyone would just bounce. I have zero “loyalty” to my instance, if it starts to suck I’m out.
  
  That’s the point of this whole thing.
  
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  - OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I just counted some of this in another comment here on this thread “they” being Lemmy.world:
    
    they are definitely the largest by a wide margin! According to lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, they have >5-fold active users than anyone else. I presume that’s monthly. The next largest instance, is lemmynsfw.com, followed by Lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ml, etc. but each of those with 2-3k users compared to lemmy.world’s 17.2k. So the latter is bigger than many others (if not quite all of them) combined.
    
    Also, due to how “packets” of data are sent, many smaller instances (like Aussie.zone) have like 7-day delays getting all the data from Lemmy.world, sent at a rate of no more than one action per second (a future Lemmy software update should help with this substantially). I’m not kidding about any of this btw - see e.g. discussion at feddit.org/post/3524876.
    
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Soup@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Not even close.

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