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Wow, things have changed since I last posted in /c/fediverse. Here are the top five most active instances based on monthly active users:
- lemmy.world: 19516
- lemm.ee: 3779
- lemmy.ml: 2970
- sh.itjust.works: 2355
- feddit.de: 2293
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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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Who owns lemm.ee and why do people choose it over other instances?
Can't speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I've yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.
Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.
When I tested different instances lemm.ee was quite small compared to the big ones. The main pros are technically fast and stable. It also federates comprehensively.
Edit: also remembered that it hasn't had any insane admin/rule situations that I've noticed
It does, however one must know what is six minus two to get the approval.
That's new, they were closed for a while
They were during the thick of the Reddit migration
They got aome of the most traffic during the migration, so it pulled itself off the instance list page i think for regiatration so that people would join other instances leveling the load
I guess I missed that. Then yeah, that affected the statistics.
Do I qualify now? : )
It also doesn't allow NSFW which other instances are littered with.
lemm.ee itself also doesn't allow porn but that's a "don't post it with your lemm.ee account" type of rule. I think it also gets filtered out of the all feed, but you can definitely subscribe to stuff over on lemmynsfw.com. Long story short porn is a bugger to mod and the legal situation when hosting (and uploading an image with a lemm.ee account would imply that) is never trivial, either.
Somewhat relatedly, image upload limits are also rather strict, 100kb, to avoid that becoming a resource hog.
It actually censors curse words too. I've actually come to like it though
I think that's going a bit too far, but also understandable.
What? I have never seen any censored words on lemm.ee
Oh, it only censors them when displayed to its own users
Lud is a lemm.ee user. Did you mean lemmy.ml?
Yeah
Also lemme.ee is not defederated from one or two instances that I want to access consistently which is why I made a new account there for my new main
You sure about that? I just made this account a few days ago.
Because it is more open and lenient in not defedereting and as a user i can choose which subs and instances to block.
Its admin @sunaurus@lemm.ee wrote all about it here: https://lemm.ee/post/26
Thanks. Looking at the admin's profile, he seems to be very reasonable. I especially like this comment he made:
Yep ... seems refreshingly and perfectly reasonable to me.
It says a significant chunk of their funding comes from users. Where does the other funding come from?
The admin made a post reporting on the finances.
Good to see donations are keeping the place afloat!
What is github sponsorship? Are they advertising on that note instance?
GitHub sponsorships are a way of donating to programmers. In addition to hosting lemm.ee, sunaurus has made significant contributions to Lemmy's codebase. (In my opinion, he is by far the most skilled programmer working on Lemmy.)