Good news: lemmy.world has overtaken lemmy.ml and now holds the top spot as the #1 non-bot lemmy instance.
Bad news: there’s been an explosion of bot farm instances in the past 48 hours.
Congrats lemmy.world. Loving this lemmy instance.
What’s the difference in instances? They all share the same communities right?
PS, brand new. Migrated from Reddit
They can contribute to the same communities, but communities live on specific instances.
The main difference between instances is the moderation policy and who runs it really, but nobody is generally missing out anything depending on the instance they choose.
There is one exception to the above, which is when instances defederate each other. Imagine that instance A is full of content that is not accepted on B and C, B and C can defederate A to stop “talking to it”. Currently beehaw has defederated Lemmy.world because of the amount of users and moderation capabilities, for example.
So would “communityA” on beehaw have different content to “CommunityA” on Lemmy.world due to the defederation/(block)
So would “communityA” on beehaw have different content to “CommunityA” on Lemmy.world due to the defederation/(block)
Even with federation, communityA@beehaw.org would be a completely different community from CommunityA@lemmy.world. (like email: mazkarth@gmail.com is a completely different account to mazkarth@hotmail.com)
What federation does for you is that you, on lemmy.world, can access them both with a single login. (email: you can write a mail to mazkarth@hotmail.com from within your gmail webmail)
jokes on them, they can’t even see communities on lemmy.world however we can still see their posts
It’s not a competition tho, right?
Yeah, it’s expected to take pride in something like that only because it’s been us vs them for almost as long as the internet has been around. Now we can all access everything everyone else can access (hi from kbin!), so there functionally IS no “them.”
I’ve been trying a lot to shift my own mindset because not only is it just…making another reddit situation if we put all of our eggs in one basket, being competitive about someone else’s instance is literally the same as being mad at someone because their phone uses a different area code. You might get a general idea about them if they have one that’s well known, but culture is the only difference between any of us. And with federation, even that may not stand the test of time.
competition for the sucker who foots the bill for this fediverse
True but lemmy.world is being donted to pretty well. He runs a mastodon instance also.
It was tongue in cheek but seems like a weakness in the federation model unless I miss something.
I look forward to the Lemmy wars. I hope we get a good 5 years before the opportunists figure it out and start exploiting the ‘power’ that will come with who can federate with you.
That’s a good point. Guess we’ll have reputation for instances at some point. A chart showing all the defederations.
