Comment on we need more users

• Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That just might be where they set up for support questions.

  That would mean that lemmy.ml chose to remove lemmy.world from there, which I would think would upset lemmy.world mods.

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  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I believe they publicly stated they removed .world from it to prevent centralization because everyone was going to a single instance, thus defeating the fediverse purpose. But this is all from memory.

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    • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The logic it uses is to hide any instances with more than 30% of all active users to prevent centralization, just like you say. There are also some other filters like requiring at least 5 active users.

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      • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Understandable but something needs to be done to lower the barrier of entry of new users joining.

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    • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s correct. But I’m not aware of lemmy.ml mods running it is all I mean. That it randomises the instances for newbies on first view isn’t great either.

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      • nutomic@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Good point, I made a PR to use biased random sort again that we had in the past, so larger instances are always shown near the top.

        github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/508

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