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  • I’m on a german instance (feddit.de) and it’s federated with db0.

    I think it’s just lemmy.world bullshit.

    Has anyone read their post about their downtime?

    “We shouldn’t close registration or limit the amount of communities because we’re not even the biggest instance in the fediverse

    Like, what?! The argument was always that they are the biggest in Lemmy! It felt like they were trying to gaslight the users.

    Same as the other arguments, like new users being weirded out if they can’t register to lemmy.world or apps using them as default. So them being down all the time doesn’t matter? Or that lemmy.ml was the biggest instance and closed down registration and new users registered to other instances without a problem?

    I’m really weirded out how hard they try to be the “main” thing on Lemmy.


  • Interesting! I tried it a bit more:

    • I had “Undetermined”, “Deutsch” and “English” selected in my profile.
    • I was able to set the comment to “Undetermined”, but then still not able to set it to “Deutsch” (back to “English”, worked though)
    • Changing the word “homie” didn’t make a difference
    • Other comments set to “Undetermined” were able to switch to “Deutsch”
    • Other comments set to “English” (that were actually written in english) were able to switch to “Deutsch”

    Seems like it’s a problem with this comment in particular, but I can’t figure out why!

    Edit: I found another comment set to “Deutsch”, written in german, that can’t be changed no matter what.



  • narp@feddit.detoProgrammer Humor@programming.devGood Old Windows
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    It has of course nothing to do with the enormous amount of money they rake through their app store by squeezing both the developers and the users.

    Why would they try to force people to only use the store by implementing more and more security features along the way!?

    It’s a mystery!



  • narp@feddit.detoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.worldLemmy World SysOp
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    I agree with your points and like the idea of more specialized instances and also country related instances. I think it’s solvable if the different admins work together.

    Lemmy.world doesn’t have to go private, they could just not accept more users and communities for a while. It wouldn’t change much since everyone will still be able to post and comment on Lemmy.world from all instances. New users would just have to choose a different instance that’s all.

    For me that’s the whole point, I don’t see any benefit of a big instance, the Lemmyverse doesn’t need one.


  • Understandable, but aren’t growth and instability related in this case? There are many instances with capacity that are already run by capable people. Just spread the load (ahem) across the Lemmy verse and only handle as much as you can. But maybe I’m missing a point, I just think that this would be the best for Lemmy in the long run.