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Dethroning lemmy.ml, lemm.ee rises as the second most active instance (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:

  • lemmy.world: 19516
  • lemm.ee: 3779
  • lemmy.ml: 2970
  • sh.itjust.works: 2355
  • feddit.de: 2293

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

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[–] 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

why do people choose it over other instances?

Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn't allow new sign ups.

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    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

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

    It does, however one must know what is six minus two to get the approval.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's new, they were closed for a while

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    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

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It also doesn't allow NSFW which other instances are littered with.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    It actually censors curse words too. I've actually come to like it though

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  • [+] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
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