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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25427659

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

Why are these instances so big, but not others? Like if I made a public instance and allow people to join, would it become this big?

Also, where do .world instances fall on this map?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Why are these instances so big, but not others? Like if I made a public instance and allow people to join, would it become this big?

Depends on a lot of factors. The big 3 are:

  1. Reliability/accessibility. These instances all have significant capacity, good uptime ratio, connection speed, etc. All of those things necessitate expenses, of course, though not necessarily massive expenses. I believe sh.itjust.works gets by with less than 10k per year.

  2. Administration. Some people want a light hand, others a heavy hand; some want minimal bias, others want to see anyone who disagrees get the boot. In all cases, an active and responsive admin team helps.

  3. Communities. Power users drive social media

Oh, and all of these instances are several years old, including being extant at the Great Exodus back in '23, which significantly boosted everyone's numbers.

Also, where do .world instances fall on this map?

Lemmy.world is in the center; other .world instances are probably similarly placed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 minutes ago

do .world instances fall on this map?

In the middle?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Hey, I am not Right. I am anarchist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

I think it's even funnier that we hand out labels right at the ticket stand to lemmy and turn around to say that labeling people based on norms is bad.

Someone needs to make a comic, you can't even make this shit up. Sign up for your next stake burning at a server near you.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Lol I love that SJW is listed as right wing for not explicitly being anticapitalist. Gave me a good laugh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yeah, I hadn't thought of political leanings when I signed up. I literally just googled for a list of instances, and the first instance that I successfully signed up with stuck. I tried .ml and .world first, but their signup pages were DoS'ed by the hoardes of redditors like myself fleeing when our apps died because of the api BS...

Can't say that I regret my instance though. When ml and blahaj are going off on each other, I'll grab some popcorn and sit back... But I've learned that you shouldn't engage with a .ml community, and the mods on .world are probably the most like the power hungry cunts on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

There's quite some drama on [email protected] and [email protected] if you're into that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

Do what you want cause a pirate be free, YOU ARE A PIRATE

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

I'm just here for the paws.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Was it exploding heads?

If you go to that instance, it's gone. Once everyone defederated from them, I guess it was over. Good. They can keep that shit elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago

It was nazi and had fucking loli shit on it. That made LITERALLY every instance defederate. Even the ones that were neutral said fuck you to them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Was it exploding heads?

Believe so. Fuck them though, they don't even deserve to have their name written in the meme.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

There was Wolfballs, which started out as a right-leaning free speech instance, but was obviously quickly overrun by trolls and fascists, so everyone defederated them and the owner decided to shut it down. As a result all the problematic people including the mods from Wolfballs moved to Exploding-Heads, which welcomed them with open arms despite also not being originally a pure right-wing instance. And yeah obviously they got defederated as well then...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I showed up right after the drama with their instance.

What was their deal?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

They were nazis and had a shit ton of loli(pedophilia)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

Ah, I kinda figured it was some far-right/Nazi junk, but yeah, pedos need to gtfo.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a chill guy, I lowkey don’t give a shit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Based and not giving a shit pilled.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 20 hours ago

I sense no bias in this meme

[–] [email protected] 28 points 23 hours ago

Lemmy OC? And interesting?! That's rare indeed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I suppose the fun starts trying to slot other instances in there.

So reply with an instance and thrash out it's place on the graph.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

SlrPnk.net is halfway between Dbzer0 and “left”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Arguably dbzer0 would be a bit further towards the libertarian right, although still in the bottom left corner.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Would you not consider them to be ancom? (I can’t tell myself)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

No, more like reasonable anarcho-individualists.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

feddit.uk - I won't comment as I'm biased.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Authright - has an Emperor

[–] [email protected] 9 points 20 hours ago

Fair point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

poa.st is the nazi instance?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Good attempt!

Where does the "likes data" come from for SJW?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

At least at the start, the instance was mostly networking and sysadmin nerds. During reddit's APIocalypse, our admin started up the server and put up a detailed post about the hardware, infrastructure and benchmarking everything. Stuff like that is what drew me and many others to this instance.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whenever I see the admins post, it's always with charts and details that I don't generally see (or at least, don't generally notice) from other instances.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

For a second there I thought there was a social justice warrior instance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (8 children)

You have to write a paragraph about your chosen Social Justice class at signup. Social Justice Wizard best!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I'd rather be a Social Justice Warlock, where do I find my patron?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Kanye West got a lemmy instance??

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