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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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