EDIT: we just crossed 30K 🥳

We are now at 28.5K users (see https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). The top 10 instances also got a decent boost in user count. With the exception of beehaw.org which defederated, the Fediverse is thriving 🔥

    • eric5949@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      Well if I didn’t understand that I’d not be on this instance now. I just didn’t like how they did it with 0 warning when those instances were increasingly a big part of my Lemmy experience, and they could have just asked for people to volunteer as mods. Regardless of how I feel about it, the reason it’s damaging is because of how people who don’t understand it will view it.

      • Kichae@kbin.socialEnglish
        62·
        1 year ago

        But if you’re not on their site, they’re not responsible to you. They are responsible to their local community.

        They maybe could have spared your admin the courtesy of a “if you can’t control this right now, we’ll have to defederate” email or something, but if the tools aren’t there to keep up, they’re not there.

    • Kichae@kbin.socialEnglish
      234·
      1 year ago

      Yeah. People struggle with the idea of “independent websites” when you can view posts from them on other websites.

      And when there isn’t a hedge fund backing them.

      • SpaceBar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        1 year ago

        A server has every right to run however they want. I agree.

        What I have a problem with are the server discovery tools and sites still listing beehaw as if it is participating in the fedeverse the same way as all of the other truly open servers.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1312·
        1 year ago

        Are you originally from beehaw? I’ve seen you defending them many times and I almost always agree with your points. Keep up the good work 🫡

        • Kichae@kbin.socialEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Nope. I’ve never actually directly been to the site.

          I just stumbled into Mastodon last April to watch people flee Twitter, and fell in love with the whole distributed social concept.

          The Internet was a digital anarchist space when I first encountered it in the 90s, and that’s what I want it to be again. And the right to disengage is tied up in that.

          • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            43·
            1 year ago

            Cool. You’re a valuable contributor and I hope you stick around. I was also hoping for an opportunity to apologize to beehaw on behalf of my server 🤷