I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.

  • pinwurm@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Imagine phone companies. An instance is like Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile or any other provider.

    If you want to talk to your friends, it doesn’t really matter what instance they’re on.
    A Verizon customer can still call a AT&T customer no problem. A Verizon customer doesn’t need to also sign up for AT&T to do that. It all just… works.

    People talking about different instances is like people talking about different phone companies. “Verizon’s coverage is better” or “T-Mobile has better support” or that kinda thing.

    • Thepolish@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      All the analogies to mobile providers reminds me of the time when they’re was no interoperability for mms. Sms iirc worked but you better have the same company as a friend if you wanted to send that grainy vga photo you just took with your fancy new razr.