this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2021
31 points (100.0% liked)

Fediverse

18142 readers
142 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
31
Average users per instance according to #FediDB with Lemmy only second to Mastodon (mastodon.social)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
12 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Interesting to see how high Lemmy sits. That is basically total users divided by number of instances.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I find that hardly surprising. There aren't many lemmy instances out there yet, it is relatively hard to discover groups hosted elsewhere, and the whole UX lends itself towards a "many groups on one server, why venture elsewhere?" approach. Naturally users cluster to the(ir) "main" instance. From a resilience/federation perspective that is a Bad Thing^TM^, just like it is with Mastodon (that monopolized the microblogging federation space so much, it has become synonymous with it in many peoples minds).

Here's to hoping other lemmy-compatible^1^ servers will be written.

^1^ Let's not get into a discussion of how all ActivityPub implementations are compatible, shall we?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Epicyon has started implementing Lemmy compatibility: https://gitlab.com/bashrc2/epicyon/-/issues/31

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Nice :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Great points. I have created two brainstorm topics that relate to this, [email protected]:

Regarding your footnote, I wholly agree, and you may find my post on - what I call - the Fediverse Challenge interesting as well.