The W in MRW stands for When.
argh thank you, I clearly have not had enough coffee yet. I know you can edit titles, I’ll just leave it LOL out loud
I feel like this is a huge problem with Lemmy. All that talk about federation and decentralization and every guide out there for getting started is just like “just register with lemmy.world and don’t worry about it”. THE WHOLE FREAKING POINT is to avoid one single instance having an outsized influence on the network as a whole.
But choosing an instance to sign up with is such a huge hassle and also kind of a crapshoot. Even if you pick one that seems like a good place to be, it’s highly likely the admins will either burn out quickly or just not do their job, and suddenly you’re defederated because your instance is full of CSAM. Or they’re actually just pieces of shit to begin with.
Fortunately, it seems like I found a decent instance for now. Lemmy.zip has more than one admin, so the burden isn’t all on one person, and the main person running it seems to be just a real chill dude. I really hope it lasts.
For quite a while there, Lemmy.world was the only one that handled the reddit apicolypse rush and stayed up reliably. So it became the defacto funnel point to the Fediverse.
Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml were tankie cesspits, Beehaw were too busy sniffing their own farts yo approve registrations, Lemmy.ca gave the impression they were a Canadians-only, eh instance and a pile of others were yet to come on line or be stable. So thats where we are.
There’ll be another migration wave and may be there will be more diversification in this one.
There is another point, which will be maintained still: decentralization allows you to jump ship and still use the service. If lemmy.world gets bought out somehow once it gets big enough, you’re free to leave and not lose anything. You can go to another instance or create your own with blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the Lemmy instance…
The crapshoot and oversized influence issues are kind of core to how humans do things unfortunately. Even well distributed, the insurance sizes would likely adhere to zipf’s law, but the most talkative, and thus the majority of the content, would come from instances where those kinds of people flocked together. And the crapshoot is just decentralized administration being hard.
OP you said the quiet part out loud. We aren’t supposed to bring this up because it’s apparently a very touchy subject.
Wait, are you me? That’s my exact experience! But now I’m on lemmy rather than kbin I can use Voyager on my phone, and I’m getting warm and fuzzy Apollo feelings! So maybe I’ll stay…
I lost track of Voyager development, how do you like it so far? I’m getting tired of using the browser on my phone.
I lost track of Voyager development, how do you like it so far?
Better than the web interface for kbin.social that I’ve been using for the last few months.
It really does feel very Apollo, if that’s a useful reference for you.
I’m not exactly a power user though, so I can’t promise it’s good for everyone. But hey, it’s free. Give it a go, see how you get on with it. You don’t have to keep it if you don’t want to…
Hey, glad you’re happy with us ❤️
The infra team tries hard to keep the lights on. 🤓