Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
Who owns lemm.ee and why do people choose it over other instances?
Can’t speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I’ve yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.
Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.
Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.
It does, however one must know what is six minus two to get the approval.
That’s new, they were closed for a while
They were during the thick of the Reddit migration
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
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
You sure about that? I just made this account a few days 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.
It also doesn’t allow NSFW which other instances are littered with.
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.
It actually censors curse words too. I’ve actually come to like it though
I think that’s going a bit too far, but also understandable.
What? I have never seen any censored words on lemm.ee
Oh, it only censors them when displayed to its own users
Lud is a lemm.ee user. Did you mean lemmy.ml?