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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

  • lemmy.world: 19516
  • lemm.ee: 3779
  • lemmy.ml: 2970
  • sh.itjust.works: 2355
  • feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[-] Lucia@eviltoast.org 49 points 10 months ago

why do people choose it over other instances?

Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn't allow new sign ups.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When I tested different instances lemm.ee was quite small compared to the big ones. The main pros are technically fast and stable. It also federates comprehensively.

Edit: also remembered that it hasn't had any insane admin/rule situations that I've noticed

[-] Durotar@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

.ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

It does, however one must know what is six minus two to get the approval.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 10 months ago

That's new, they were closed for a while

[-] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

They got aome of the most traffic during the migration, so it pulled itself off the instance list page i think for regiatration so that people would join other instances leveling the load

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

They were during the thick of the Reddit migration

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Do I qualify now? : )

[-] donut4ever@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

It also doesn't allow NSFW which other instances are littered with.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

lemm.ee itself also doesn't allow porn but that's a "don't post it with your lemm.ee account" type of rule. I think it also gets filtered out of the all feed, but you can definitely subscribe to stuff over on lemmynsfw.com. Long story short porn is a bugger to mod and the legal situation when hosting (and uploading an image with a lemm.ee account would imply that) is never trivial, either.

Somewhat relatedly, image upload limits are also rather strict, 100kb, to avoid that becoming a resource hog.

[-] Lucia@eviltoast.org 3 points 10 months ago

That's reasonable! Although AFAIK lemmynsfw is one of the most defederated instances ever, so there's a lot of options.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

It actually censors curse words too. I've actually come to like it though

[-] donut4ever@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I think that's going a bit too far, but also understandable.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

What? I have never seen any censored words on lemm.ee

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, it only censors them when displayed to its own users

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Lud is a lemm.ee user. Did you mean lemmy.ml?

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Also lemme.ee is not defederated from one or two instances that I want to access consistently which is why I made a new account there for my new main

[-] Metriximor@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

You sure about that? I just made this account a few days ago.

[-] Lucia@eviltoast.org 1 points 10 months ago

They closed sign ups during the early days of the migration up until recently. I just missed the moment they're open again since I'm not interested in large instances.

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