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Average users per instance according to #FediDB with Lemmy only second to Mastodon (mastodon.social)
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Interesting to see how high Lemmy sits. That is basically total users divided by number of instances.

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[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

Not a good thing IMHO, but basically just a result of few instances and 2-3 really big ones.

We need more instances, but for example I though long and hard about hosting my own, and the main reason why I ultimately decided against it (for now) is the relative lack of good moderation tools in Lemmy.

P.S.: Strange that Misskey is so low. There must be a lot of one person instances or some sort of data error.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I am not a heavy Mastodon user, but I heard about Misskey for the very first time yesterday. From what I could gather from the few-days-old conversation, it's only now starting to gain traction as "everybody seems to be jumping in".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

Really? It has been around nearly as long as Mastodon and was always a good alternative. The problem I guess is that the documentation is mostly in Japanese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

https://the-federation.info/