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      Precisely! What’s the point of an overpopulated instance? It’s more likely to affect users because of blanket instance blocklists.

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          the instance I was on straight up, said that it was shutting down, and that we should migrate to other instances. I did that and dropped the other account so I have no fucking clue what’s going on over there.

        • cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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          .ml has a lot of pro-Russia, pro-China types and criticism of either country can lead to a quick ban.

          Functionally, there is no difference. Both run the same software, tho the versions may slightly differ as the devs, who run .ml, push updates.

          For a functionally different experience try Mbin/Kbin (I forget which is the current), or Piefed. Piefed is similar to Lemmy with some quality of life improvements. Kbin/Mbin is a cross between “tweet” style posts, “blog” style posts like tumblr, and Reddit type posts.

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          From my experience, people in .world are way more open to positive discussion than .ml. Everything upsets .ml if you say the wrong thing or dont post the right way, to make them understand. Its to much fucking drama for no reason.

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      All those users are from different instances. That’s decentralized.

      If this community goes down or is otherwise not viable anymore, users can easily find another, similar community, while not having to switch to a different platform or instance or whatever themselves. That’s how this is supposed to work.

      Decentralization with different larger communities on different instances, with community members from all kinds of different instances, baby!

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        It only works if you can bring your block list with you. That’s the only thing of value attached to my profile.

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          You can, it’s easy and quick. I just exported my profile settings (builtin to the default lemmy.world web UI) to a json file in a couple seconds. Confirmed it contains blocked users and communities.

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          Decentralized networks with large centralized communities is the best approach. You have to have that number of people to have interesting conversations and engagement.

          But if all the users are spread out across several instances it becomes more resilient. If a large community/instance goes offline or there’s a controversy then it can be migrated to a new instance

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          It’s good to have it as an option but most people are frustrated if they can’t just go to one place that has tons of people.

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    High scores are neat; but we all realize that’s effectively just trainspotting, right? Popularity just means popularity, and laundering that out to some notion of good/effective/accurate/respected is neither good nor healthy ; right?

    Still, grats on having a higher number.

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    Defederated from .ml and watch those number go even higher.

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      I can now say I’ve officially joined the .world party, after the craziness from my last post getting deleted, im officially done with them. i might even delete all my other post i did in .ml, those guys are fucking ridiculous for no reason.

  • Miisha ♀️@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    Let’s go Lemmy! It’s nice to see this platform grow. Whether by taking in people from corpo social media platforms or just by people discovering that it’s actually a safe neat little place to exist.
    Keep the Lemmings coming please 💜

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    Can someone connected with Anonymous see if they can get some AI to do a Hugging Bear style DDoS attack on u/Spez? We should Ol’ Yeller Reddit. It’s for the best really.

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        Only one that matters is MAU and that has been flatlining, and going down if you remove the nsfw influx. It’s really not going as well as it should: the internet is growing every day, and reddit, X, FB, and the others are all cozying up to fascism, and we’re struggling to show meaningful growth.