this thread is about instances fighting to be #1 isn’t it? y’all know that’s why MAU and metrics are tracked and reported like this right? You do realize that any site which has your email has maybe about $0.5-$1 added to their valuation for each active user, right? this helps companies get advertisers. Even if a product is crap, the business can say “sure but we can contact 1mil users at their email addresses” and I assure you, that counts for a lot.

[–] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In case you're not joking, this thread is about Fediverse software fighting to be #1. First is Mastodon (all known instances of it), second is Lemmy (all known instances of it), etc. etc.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world -4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The software isn’t doing the fight. I doubt the developers of the software are doing the fight. The fight seems weird and antithetical to the fediverse to begin with. It’s not a fight, it’s a party! https://fediverse.party

ActivityPub was made for sharing and interoperability.

Information wants to be free.

Capitalism wants domination. Capitalism and bottoms, of course. switches too. i digress,,

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No one is actually fighting, its just showing the average monthly users of each platform from most to least users.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s not fighting, it’s comparison, to see which one is “better”. Not a fight, but a competition. Just like how boxing matches are competitions, not fights.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Do Lemmy and Mastodon really compete with each other when they're attempting to cater to different needs? They are all part of the greater Fediverse, showing the growth of the overall community.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Of course not, so why rank them? Don’t we rank things that compete against one another?

[–] Aman9das@lemmus.org 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Aren't you on a big instance?

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Only the biggest. as I understand all other instances shut down when the biggest instance wins.

I have accounts on other instances and am considering starting my own. that’s my point - lemmy doesn’t need big instances because federation makes all instances part of the same but decentralized.

Seriously folks, don’t jump on the take over the internet bandwagon just yet.

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

True but it does seem like a good sign of a healthy ecosystem.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

So long as we don’t view it as a race to the top. having one instance that’s more popular than the others just means added pressure for that instance to perform. and if it doesn’t perform? lemmy loses users who may not want to migrate to another instance.

first day on the internet?

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No I was using reddit since 2009 or so. This is the closest alternative I can find to escape the cesspool that it has become.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

yeah, centralized services can get stupidly large and unwieldy.

[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It would be nice to eventually develop an RES-style firefox extension for keyboard navigation and whatnot.