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Lemmy.world active users is tapering off while other servers are gaining serious traction. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by ieightpi@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.

But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.

Give me that hopium guys! 💉

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[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Hey, you're getting some well-meaning but quite confusing answers on this so I'll try and sum up:

Each instance / server is its own self-contained thing, so yes if you want to change which instance you use as your home you'd need to set up a new account on it. But...
You DO NOT need to do this just to join and interact with communities from other instances, you can do that from your lemmy.world account
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea of .world potentially federating with Threads down the line, so are pre-emptively making the jump to another instance

There are other reasons to have multiple accounts, for example I have one account that is mostly subbed to gaming stuff and then I have this account that is mostly subbed to crafting stuff, because I like to have the two separate subscription feeds. I did the same thing over on Reddit, on Mastodon, etc etc. Some people have a dedicated NSFW account. Whether you personally have a use case for multiple accounts, or whether you personally want to steer clear of any potential future federation with Threads, is up to you.

[–] ramplay@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Maybe it would be confusing to add this but your second point could clarify that you can interact with any other instance so long as:

lemmy.world hasn't defederated from them
That instance hasn't defederated from lemmy.world

For instance (accidental pun), I believe behaw.org is/was defederated from lemmy.world. Additionally, I believe I heard that lemmy.world defederated from lemmy.online (the reddit spam instance).

I know my instance is also currently discussing defederating lemmy.online among other choices

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I generally leave the whole defederation nonsense for a followup when it seems like someone needs the bigger picture explanation, otherwise things get lengthy. But you are technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct.

[–] ramplay@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

That's fair, I tend to get too technical in my explanations anyways. Completely fair if you left that piece out for simplicity

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