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I tried to make an account on lemmy.ml and it looks like their servers are (understandably) overloaded

I ended up choosing lemmy.world instead

My understanding is I'm not missing out on anything by chosing a less-popular instance. Did I get that right?

With all due respect and empathy to reddit's employees who do deserve gainful employment:

Does a link aggregator really need a huge labor pool? In terms of functionality Lemmy is already on par with how I remember Reddit 10 years ago (compared to which the experience of Reddit today is actually worse). And Lemmy achieves it with what, an extreme fraction of the labor cost?

Props to all the devs, admins, etc who are hosting all these Lemmy instances for us, btw :)

"AITA for not making my subreddit private?"

I can understand de-federating from something like lemmygrad.ml. I can't for the life of me understand lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works (love the name btw). Both instances just seem to be filled with regular, moderate people?

As someone who's been looking for a reddit alternative for a while and occasionally read Hacker News, I must say I really like it here on Lemmy. Similar simplicity of Hacker News, but with more diverse set of communities.

Because "master race" is a broadly known term, compared to a niche video game review. As I stated I am out of the loop having not seen this Witcher 1 review.

Regardless of the current situation, I think the option in general to "unsubscribe" from an entire instance could be useful. I know we can create our own instances and defederate, but not everyone has the skills, money, etc. to be able to do that.

I wish there were a way to transfer/propagate a single identity across multiple instances. I would love to use a less crowded instance, but I don't want to keep creating new accounts.

https://beehaw.org/post/567170

Test post from lemmy.world

One thing that definitely worries me with federation in general is the barrier to entry to hosting an instance is low, by design. On one hand this is great, but on the other hand it means just about anyone can spin up an instance and collect usernames, passwords, emails, etc. from anyone who signs up

I know this is obviously no better than an single giant corporation who can do that. But it's interesting to think about.

I'm definitely not suggesting kbin.social is doing this by the way. Your post just spurred this thought for me

Absolutely. Having grown up with MMOs in the early 2000s I honestly thought I needed to pick the biggest most active instance akin to chosing an active game server 😅

I had the same experience. My desk is next to my window and it felt like I was breathing in sand, even with my air filter.

Hopefully a once in a lifetime experience 😅

Could we use this as an opportunity to change the name to something that doesn't contain hate speech?

I guess I'm out of the loop. When I hear master race I think of white supremacy, not a Witcher 1 review

I'm glad to see a NYC community on Lemmy. I hope this community picks up steam as more people flee from Reddit

"master race"

I find it ironic how they claim about not being profitable. How many millions of dollars did they spend on various developers salaries to build this unwanted feature?