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It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren't attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we'll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    If people have to hunt each post storage location individually, then it will be as if they don't exist to 99.99% users. What will happen is there will be one big one, and they most likely be all on the big instance, and federation becomes just a weird thing that does nothing because functionally that will be just like Reddit. Centralized servers, centralized servers under the control of a tiny priesthood.

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Not at all. Reddit has communities that are similar but with different names, rules, and culture and different people use them because they want different experiences. The same is true here.

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        The crucial difference is that those are differentiated by having a unique name, note a unique hostname. Which hard drive a community is stored should not be considered an important aspect of that community. It only specifies who is allowed to delete and edit content posted to that harddrive

        • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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          1 year ago

          That's like saying everyone that lives on 123 Main St is the same regardless of the city or everyone with the email "Bob" is the same regardless of what their email provider is.

          • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            Lemmy has nothing to do with email. I'm sick and tired of this incorrect analogy being used to explain how Lemmy works and people stubbornly not understanding why it's broken because of it.

            If you think it through, what you're asking is that the communities will exist only on one server. That's Reddit with extra steps.

            • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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              1 year ago

              Goober, I am literally not asking that and yes this is very similar to email. My home instance is programming.dev. We are both still talking. I did not have to make an account on lemmy.ml to respond to you here. I did not even have to go to lemmy.ml to see or respond to this post. This community does not "exist only on one server" by any means.

              • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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                1 year ago

                Yes because we're in a server default subscription. A server decided list of viable communities, probably a list shared across the fediverse. Again a gayekeeping system by the system elites

                We are in the !fediverse! community, only big one that exists.

                It's double centralization. This is recreating Reddit.

                • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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                  1 year ago

                  You're moving the goal posts, you're talking about default subscriptions being a problem now. That's totally different. And besides, it wasn't on my server and yet I found this.