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We are using their tools though…

Well, you are, while I am on PieFed:-P If you do not like what you’ve heard here, then consider switching to Piefed.World (Lemmy.World’s recently-announced PieFed replacement for Lemmy)

You are too kind. Wait, no such thing: you are just perfectly kind enough! 🥰

They are not my OC but I will take credit for finding, selecting, and sharing them with us all for our communal edification:-).

Only wholesome Dooms allowed!?

Thanks I love it 💖

It is pretty awesome! 😎👍

Lol then allow me to put your mind at ease:

Lemmy.world (LW) is the #1 instance with >16k MAUs (monthly active users)

lemm.ee btw was the #2 instance with 5.3k MAUs, roughly a third the size of LW

lemmynsfw.com is #3 with 3.6k

sh.itjust.works is #4 with 2.8k, 5.7-fold smaller than LW

fwiw Lemmy.ca is #7 with 1.6k MAUs

PieFed.social has 684 users total, as in <0.7k MAU, 24-fold smaller than LW

All of this according to Fediverse Observer stats (not that easy to use especially for PieFed, which it doesn’t even have an icon for, and doesn’t allow sharing of URLs for the sorting and filtering options very unfortunately).

TLDR: nothing across the entire Fediverse comes anywhere close to Lemmy.world in terms of users.

PieFed is gaining ground because the features are just that good in comparison to Lemmy, and because the admins are not authoritarians. Indeed, do look into it, bc it’s well worth knowing about, and you may fall in love and switch yourself:-). I did.🥰❤️

PieFed is awesome and the community migration feature makes things easier. Though yeah, it might be preferable to have picked something other than the flagship instance that rolls out new features fastest, i.e. a more “stable” instance that is behind that roll-out a bit. Though PieFed is still so new that there aren’t that many to begin with. https://feddit.online/ is another strong option, but I don’t know if it’s based in Canada or the USA and anything in the latter might be unreliable in the future.

That migration feature looks so handy!:-)

Perfect response 💯

I’ll tell you a secret: 42.

John Oliver himself feels embarrassed at that term, although I’m not sure why since it’s hilarious 😂.

Omg that is a beautiful visualization of the data. Maybe someone should post it to… oh, carry on then:-).

This is Lemmy, a social media platform - so that’s on you for going away and not expecting a war breaking out in the meantime!:-P

Much drama, so cringe

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20937206

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20968775

TLDR: mods be tripping and tried to steal the community away to LW without consulting anyone. The community did not enjoy this, hence now we make fun of the situation:-).

Don’t ever hand life a bag of lemons, son. Or do I suppose, bc we can do what we want!:-P

The truly universal (in Lemmy) language, the shared experience of us all.:-)

What a “success” he is!

It’s kinda fucking awesome bc it depends on which direction you read the letters in - left to right then down and left to right again, or left to right but up and down between each letter.

Truth is what you can handle seeing… or some wise sounding BS like that? :-P

You are free to ask whatever you want, delivered in good faith as you have:-).

I am good at concrete thinking - that’s true, and I got way better as a result of schooling, which I always was good at and was rewarded for compliance thus kept going.

But I also tend to think abstractly too. I’m really not as good as that one, so not as confident, but even so I persist bc I want to do it. And that has worked really well for me in the past, although it’s super rare and I can’t just jump on it - it takes so much time. I find that it’s the only one of the two though that is emotionally rewarding.

Does that answer help any at all? :-D

(I couldn’t figure out how to make the L bigger okay:-)

Edit: I also only belatedly noticed the spelling - but I prefer it this way I think 🤔!?

Is Beehaw really that bad? I mean I’ve heard it’s super authoritarian, and I’ve never posted there, plus I wonder just how capricious they are… well I sorta am answering my own question here (but it doesn’t look all that horrible from a distance, I guess is what I’m saying?:-).