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We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I have tried many forum-styled site over the years including the politically more questionable ones, and from what I see theres 3 hurdles a site need to pass in order to be good:

  1. it needs good infrastructure, especially user interface (where 4ch, most forum, and now reddit fail)

  2. it has some gatekeeping to filter out the "order consumers", but not too much that it drives user away, including having a toxic environment (where 4ch and .win fail)

  3. it needs to have enough user generated content so thay theres actually reasons to use the site (whre most reddit clones fail)

from what I see lemmy has passed all the hurdles, and I have good hope the fediverse will stick around

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[–] ieightpi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there any concern that world's population might overload the server? I keep reading that we need to spread the server load to other instances.

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[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Congratulations from sh.itjust.works!

[–] darkstar@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago

Amen

[–] durd_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'd move to a closer instance, if I new they were in it for the long run and not shut down when they get bored after a few months. What happens if the instance I'm registered to decides to shut down?

[–] charrondev@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have to agree here. I went through this same issue with Mastodon when I joined a smaller instance "mastodon.lol". It shut down without any apparent notice to me (using a third-party app). I had to start from scratch and mastodon even has an account migration feature.

I can't in good conscience tell a less technical friend "oh go use a smaller instance" when that means they can come across a dead-looking thread or community (that just hasn't been federated to them yet) or suddenly lose their account when their instance disappears with little to no notice.

[–] durd_@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I'm starting to realize that it's only the links that are decentralized and not, what I'd hoped for but was maybe obvious, my data/account.

I've asked over at !fediverse@lemmy.world if anyone can register any nickname on any instance - essentially spoofing a user but on a different instance. Or if a username is "taken" across the fediverse.

Edit: anyone can register any ones username on a different instance. Spoofing/scamming isn't handled very good?
Edit2: post and comment data is federated too, so your posts won't dissappear, but might dis-converge(?) into multiple versions depending on things? :) This post helped me understand some of it: https://lemmy.world/comment/205763

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

I had a weird bug where someone had the same user name as me and was posting a bunch of stuff, mostly in star trek subs. It only happened on mobile. At first I thought my account was stolen but I was able to log in on pc. I wonder if I had accidentally logged in as someone with the same name on another instance.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What happens if the instance I’m registered to decides to shut down?

You'll have to sign up to a new instance and will lose your post history, etc.

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