Coelacanth

Ah damn it, it says 4154 for me.

Don’t worry, I believe the official lurker cutoff is 5000 posts. You still got some time.

World Cup 2010 will always have a special place in my heart. The Jabulani, vuvuzuelas, Suarez hand of god, Tshabalala’s goal, Forlan being godlike…

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Damn I missed all that drama completely (though I do tend to avoid political subs). That’s really disappointing.

Totally agreed about Beehaw, I love having access to it but would never want my main account to be registered there.

Hexbear used to have like 1.5k back in the day I think and I assumed they’d grown a bit, but I couldn’t find any recent data from a cursory web search so could be way off base there.

The cold truth is that to onboard people in greater numbers you need a default instance recommendation. You just do. You absolutely cannot ask potential new users (many of which will - hopefully - be casual and not so tech savvy) to sit down and undertake a multi hour research project into finding an appropriate small instance for them. You cannot reasonably expect people to look into uptime, funding and defederation lists to make an informed decision about where to register. You just need them through the door and posting and commenting and voting.

Making a new account somewhere else is super easy and painless once they’re already here. We just need to get them here.

I get that people enjoy bashing the “tankie triad” at every opportunity and all, but bringing them up in this circumstance doesn’t really make sense. It’s not like people are flocking to them in droves, you only end up there if you really want to. Lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works are both bigger than lemmy.ml at this point and I wouldn’t call the 500 or so MAUs on Lemmygrad a problematic over-concentration of users. That’s less than 1% of the user base. Hexbear’s recent MAU stats are hard to find but even if we’re generous and say it’s 2k that’s like 3% of the user base.

Lemmy.world alone is like 33% of the user base, that is the real problem here.

Well yes, I was thinking more along the lines of what makes people gravitate to the already big servers when they first create an account. When people are already somewhat established there is another form of friction, or more like inertia. Like you say, people just don’t want to move once they’ve settled down somewhere. Even though it’s very easy to switch instances, and with no karma to care about there is nothing keeping you.

there are many real-life advantages of choosing instances with established mod- and admin teams and an active community.

This is the thing here, like, for most casual users “decentralisation and spreading the load” is not just far down the list of priorities, it’s literally nonexistent. Content, uptime, reliability, active moderation and low risk of the instance just disappearing one day is what they care about. It’s unfortunate, but I really don’t see a way around it.

Not even big instances, but big platforms I would say. Like, if you’re lucky someone might have heard about Mastodon, but that’s pretty much it.

The Lemmy federation map is sadly dead since a while back, but for any given instance you can see their defederation list at /instances under the Blocked Instances tab. So for example for your instance it would here.

You got it.

This isn’t a full migration sadly, at least I don’t think so. It’s a welcome trickle of new users, but Reddit will need to do much worse to force a full on exodus. Though I have no doubt they will eventually. But I don’t think we’re getting another mass Rexit event until they turn off old.reddit.

More like a second wave of it. I remember it was similar for a bit during the original API clampdown exodus.

You’re doing the lord’s work, sir.