Comment on What is the best instance for searching on Lemmy?
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 9 months ago
keep in mind federation does mean 'all content is mirrored' between the instances. it just means subscriptions can be made.
its plausible there are communities on the most popular sites you wont see because those sites are not subscribed to that content (yet), even if not de-federated.
ChasingEnigma@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The number of users is directly proportional to the amount of content subscribed to.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 9 months ago
ha, no its not. you could absolutely have a number of users with identical subscriptions which would not increment content pulled.
no
ChasingEnigma@lemmy.world 9 months ago
unlikely
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 9 months ago
dude correlation is not causation. this is a great example you conflating the terms.
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 9 months ago
He’s just trying to help you, dude. lemmy.world is by far the biggest instance; 3x the users of the next biggest instance and much more than most. But, lemmy.world is also defederated from some notable instances like beehaw and hexbear. Another instance which also has in the tens of thousands of users (enough to be subscribed to “most stuff”) might well give you better search results.
You may decide that the defederated-from-here instances aren’t worth bothering with, with some justification, but you came in asking for help, he’s trying to help you, and you’re lecturing him about what’s what. 🙄