Lemmy.world officially has 40k users, making it the #1 non-bot lemmy instance!
In addition to lemmy.world, the #2 real lemmy instance, lemmy.ml, seems to be growing as well.
Our neighbor, kbin.social, has also reached the 40k milestone today.
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bruh that k6qw lemmy instance 45.9k users right now but ZERO posts. wtf.
these bots are gonna be a problem
And my conspiratorial side makes me think that they're not here by accident
Oh, found a post by the admin of that instance, it's from a week ago
Boy oh boy, @gaylord you're in for a fun time there, bud
48k users right now btw, he's getting a lot of bots
They've already replaced him.
I was trying to be subtle... but what I meant was that the bots have found him IRL and replaced him... Invasion of the Botty Snatchers...
I'm new here, too! Just made the account. <3 Never liked Reddit, but open source stuff is always nice, plus, Lemmy looks way cleaner. So uhm... henlo!
"Non-bot Lemmy instance" Go talk to the beehaw'ers about that, they're convinced we're the bottiest of instances. =P
Not bottiest. They specifically said it was the trolliest.
Anecdotally, I disagree with that characterization. Though, when you have the most people period, you do, somewhat intrinsically, tend to have the most of all "types" of people.
That said, I need convincing that lemmy.ml, who they are still federated to, has a meaningfully "nicer" community.
More accurately they defederated from lemmy.world due to "concerns" about it's open sign-ups policy and the potential for "abuse".
It was less about intangible "concerns" and more that most of their time spent moderating was from users of this instance and since they're strained on time, it made sense to simply defederate until the necessary mod tools exist to make things easier.
It’s four volunteers dude, they’re allowed to do what they think is best for their instance. This is not their full time job
Nothing of value was lost
ELI5 on the blanket filter please
I think they mean that work has a filter that blocks *.ml (anything that ends in .ml)
.ml tends to be one of the most abused top level domains for malware, spam, etc (in terms of ratio of malicious to non malicious domains) similar to .top, .buzz, .club, etc. So, many DNS filters on company networks simply filter all domains of these TLDs (and maybe whitelist a few known good ones) since they tend to be almost certainly malicious.
I filter them on my home network too via pihole (though not .ml)
Gotta love that uptime too!
Here representing kbin! I honestly keep trying to go back to a lemmy.world from time to time but I prefer kbin's experience overall. Fantastic news for all involved!
It's such an amazing system! Really impressing me and I plan to stay regardless of what Reddit does!
Same! Still trying to find the right platform to use the fediverse from. I'm hoping that once transferring accounts or linking accounts is easier it won't matter.
I'd be curious to see how they would implement something like this. I've come to accept the together but separate concept but it would be cool to have a consolidation of sorts!
The next 40K will be even quicker.
Why is country shown as Finland? The server is host in Germany AFAIK.
IIRC it's hosted at Hetzner, and they have datacenters in Germany, Finland and the US. That could be the reason that the wrong flag is showing up.
Hey that sweet Finnish flag was the reason I chose it! I feel cheated now :(
There's a Finnish-run instance at https://sopuli.xyz/
(no affiliation, I just heard about it somewhere else)
Cheers!
Congratulations 🍾🎉🎊 lemmy.world
good
@MicroWave I don't know about bots but I think Kbin has a little over 41K users right now: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0
Kbin user here. I didn't put much thought into which server I joined. Kbin sign-up was easy so here I am. It's cool that it doesn't really matter which server you're from!
I don't understand. You say 40k but on the statistics page of kbin https://kbin.social/stats it says 200k users (?)
kbin.social is a Kbin instance, not a Lemmy instance, so it's not stopping lemmy.world from being the biggest Lemmy instance.
Great news! But how do lemmy.fediverse.observer and fedidb.org separate "bots" from "non-bots"? It feels like "we don't have any bots" is a pretty laughable thing to say.