Comment on Spreading of the 100 biggest Lemmy communities

nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Everyone goes to Lemmy.world because it has (effectively) open registration and some popular Lemmy apps use it in their signup flow so new users don’t have to understand the intricacies of the fediverse they can just hop straight in.

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  • Persen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And this is making a lemmy.world monopoly, which is bad for the fediverse (still better, than reddit).

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    • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it would definitely be nice to spread users across more instances. Doubly so since I’m on an instance that is struggling with the volume of content from Lemmy.world because of what is effectively a limit of how much you can get from one instance at a time.

      But if we want people on Lemmy who don’t know what Linux is, then we need to avoid that massive barrier of asking users to pick an instance. And the second massive barrier of registration applications.

      A good compromise I think would be to have multiple trusted servers with open registrations that the app randomly defaults them to when they go to sign up for an account.

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      • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Doubly so since I’m on an instance that is struggling with the volume of content from Lemmy.world because of what is effectively a limit of how much you can get from one instance at a time.

        Are you okay lately? I had a look the other day, seems almost fixed:

        …lem.rocks/…/federation-health-single-instance-ov…

        Aussie.zone on the other is almost a week behind: …lem.rocks/…/federation-health-single-instance-ov…

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      • ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        But if we want people on Lemmy who don’t know what Linux is, then we need to avoid that massive barrier of asking users to pick an instance. And the second massive barrier of registration applications.

        How so? Those things do not have anything to do with each other. The concept of Lemmy instances can literally be explained in less than a minute.

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    • Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Isn’t this a bit ironic coming from someone on a LW account? Genuinely asking 😄

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      • Persen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I made the account here, when it wasn’t as popular and I’m way too lazy to migrate.

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  • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Everyone goes to Lemmy.world because unlike most instances it has (effectively) open registration

    The registration page does not look different really to the lemmy.nz one, same for lemm.ee, sopuli.xyz, sh.itjust.works has even one less tiny hurdle to jump to register. Didn’t bother to check others. Or i am missing something here?

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    • nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      never heard any of these wizard terms sorry

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      • AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have no clue what you’re on about.

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• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yay centralization!

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m curious what this looks like for Mastodon. Of the top X accounts listed by followers, what proportion are on instances run by the Mastodon organisation?

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• Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a user, I really rally don’t want to start “instanse hoping” for lemmy. I just want to sign in and that’s it. Fediverse decentralized nature is also it’s drawback

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• OutsizedWalrus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I went with it because I figured it had same peering defaults.

  It does, which is really nice.

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