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Just saw this on AskLemmy at .ml, thought this and chuckled, and now here we are.

Will take the opportunity to thank our admins for what they do, and all you humans for being here and generally being cool.

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[–] UniversalMonk 7 points 4 hours ago

This is the best instance in fediverse in my opinion.

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

And not a pretty company to have around ngl

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'm good with my smaller community that is "seven seas friendly" in dbzer0

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 2 points 2 hours ago

Hey, much respect to that.

[–] CidVicious 2 points 4 hours ago

This makes me wish I could currently see comments on posts on sh.itjust.works. Bug in sync is making it not work.

[–] ace_of_based 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Why heckbear 2 times? I am confuzzled

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

They're just that good at posting lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I don't know why, but I expected to see Aussie.zone here since it feels incredibly active to me haha

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

The Melbourne daily threads are quite something

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I just want to take a moment to say your username is amazing.

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

Thanks, it's one of my favourite pieces of poetry

[–] prettybunnys 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is the instance I direct everyone to, it’s been the most reasonable AND least bothersome.

5/7

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] prettybunnys 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That’s not what they said though.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It is equivalent to what they said, the meaning is the same.

[–] imaqtpie 2 points 2 hours ago

DM me about it or make a post in another community if you disagree with what I said. This thread isn't the place to have that discussion, it's off topic and drama-stirring.

[–] TacoButtPlug 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's what my enby pals in Amsterdam think, as well though...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Have they thanked Putin for supporting their struggle?

[–] TriflingToad 8 points 23 hours ago

Im not seen as a specific subset like if I were to move to blahaj or Midwest (which would be my next two picks). I like being seen as 'just a person'

It, quite literally, just works.

[–] threelonmusketeers 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tar_alcaran 6 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Personally I would go with Monthly Active Users, e.g. since Hexbear has managed to run off a good fraction of its users over time (which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well).

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This puts sh.itjust.works as #4, which it's been for a good long while, above Lemmy.ml and Hexbear and nearly all other instances.

Link, but the URL does not preserve the options shown, so you have to resort by Monthly Active Users.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

(which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well)

I'm one of them. Luigi censoring was the catalyst. I came to Lemmy to get away from corporate censorship. It also doesn't help that it's slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I'm surprised to hear about the slowness issue - I think this is the first time that I have, though I am definitely spoiled at Discuss.Online that has such a great technical admin (he also is the one who was developing Sublinks, before life and a baby intervened:-). Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Tbf there is legit fear in the USA that Trump will start to place bans or at least watchlists on social media outlets that Musk does not make money off of. Then again, I thought that LW wasn't really associated with the USA in any way besides having a bunch of users from it, and anyway you have found a perfect solution to the problem - if they don't want it, go somewhere else that does allow what you need.:-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don't know if it's because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it's a very significant difference.

LW isn't associated with the US except for the fact that they're keen to kowtow to corporate censorship to avoid being sued and the like. Since they're by far the most visible instance on Lemmy I can't really blame them and it's probably better that they're more cautious to possibly take some of the heat off of everyone else. As you said, they didn't serve my needs, so I went elsewhere - having that option is what I love about the fediverse.

[–] UniversalMonk 2 points 4 hours ago

Lemmy.world has become a pro-censorship toxic shithole lately. Sooo glad I was made to find other instances.

Beauty of the fediverse.. If one place sucks, just find a different one 😊

[–] TriflingToad 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

dang I did not expect .ee to be on top behind .nsfw

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

At a guess, bc it doesn't have that many communities on it?

Efforts are underway to change that but yeah it definitely lacks the same punch as others - like sh.itjust.works has 5 communities that are each larger, some by almost 3 times, than the absolute largest one on lemm.ee.

That instance seems not so much a "source" of content across the Fediverse as a "destination" for posts made to communities elsewhere.

Then again, very little else compares to Lemmy.World in that regard - it has another 10 communities each larger, some twice as large, as sh.itjust.works does. It would be healthier for the network effects to split that up a bit more... but fortunately their upgrade process over the next few months should help a little.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Man, I just wanted to chant "We're #5", now I have people coming at me with facts. :p

(Jokes aside, I appreciate it. There's nuance to these metrics and what best accounts for 'size', particularly for those cases/services where the metrics reflect a little bugginess anyway)

[–] verity_kindle 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think when we yell "five", there should be a spirited booty shake.

[–] ace_of_based 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

🎶🎤🎶Errybody get yer shit onna dancefloor! Now work it. Just work it. Errybody getcher shit n work it🎶

[–] verity_kindle 3 points 6 hours ago

🎤Wanna drive a lamborghini? Drink martinis? You betta work bitch🎤

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

See, everyone is coming in and talking about different means of measuring instances, the implications for the fediverse and the position of federated services against corporate monoliths like reddit.

But you, verity - you get it.

[–] verity_kindle 2 points 19 hours ago

It's the Non-Credible Defense in me.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. So great. Amazing. Truly exceptional.

[–] Cracks_InTheWalls 2 points 21 hours ago

Damn right!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Hexbear is counted twice, so you're actually #4.

This image is a bit disheartening, ngl

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