• sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net
      8·
      1 year ago

      Tbf, depending on the region, that’s just how the electricity is made. The fbxl network runs off of electricity generation made up of 86% hydroelectric and biomass, with the balance made up of wind, solar, and natural gas.

      As I have repeatedly repeatedly said, with a geography of canada, the entire country could be 100% renewables in a decade or two if there was a real focus on hydroelectric generation that is presently powering entire regions, and it would make people’s lives better in the process with plentiful inexpensive hydroelectric we would make electric heat the most competitive and thus would start offsetting burning fossil fuels for building heat which would have a massive impact on carbon emissions since buildings make up 25% of total emissions and most building heat is done with fossil fuels because electricity is too expensive and the costs are rising so people are migrating to fossil fuels even with the carbon tax…

      But I digress…

    • thefool@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also two good reasons for me as well.

      It’s strange that it doesn’t report a Canadian flag on the graphic in the post heading though. Looks like Netherlands?

  • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
    653·
    1 year ago

    goddammit

    i joined dxcomplex because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
    then it folded so i joined .world because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name);
    then it got massive so i joined lemm.ee because it was the smallest instance i was confident wouldn’t fold (and i liked the name)

    i’m starting to wonder if i’m cursed

    • icepuncher69@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      93·
      1 year ago

      Most of the times that i see this meme is always censured, they usually take out the part where the woman gets gropped. While i understeand why someone wouldnt whant to share something that contains sexuall harasment, i think its a little silly and very curious how its users self-censored themselvels with this meme, it its very unussual to find it like this in the wild.

      • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        In this version of the meme she’s actually from an alien culture where it’s considered rude not to kiss someone and squeeze their butt after accepting a medal. Their version of “bless you” after a sneeze.

        I swear to god it’s in the show somewhere look it up.

  • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    1 year ago

    This graph is actually wrong, lemmy.ml doesn’t have open sign ups, it just appears to because the Lemmy software doesn’t accurately distinguish between open and closed registrations, it only distinguishes between open registrations and application-based registrations. If registrations are closed it’ll look just like they are open, but we’ll just give an error message when you try to sign up which is incredibly deceiving.

    I filed an issue to fix this discrepancy on their GitHub.

    Another issue with this graph is that it shows lemmy.world as American but it’s actually hosted in Finland.

    • Stoneykins [any]@mander.xyzEnglish
      172·
      1 year ago

      People seem to only want their accounts on “general use” instances that are already pretty popular.

      Which is… bizarre. There is no downside to having your account on a more niche instance (as long as it isn’t so niche that it gets turned off), and there are arguably disadvantages to having your account on a more popular instance.

      • Default@aussie.zoneEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        A slight advantage to big servers is the increase in anonymity on the backend. Given the server admins can do what ever that want. An admin on small server would no doubt be looking into who and where their individual users are. Big severs are more likely to become more population based. Doesn’t really matter though I suppose.

        • imsodin@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Yeah no exact opposite for me: Big server means lots of user data making abuse of it more appealing and impactful. While an admin of a small instance having some fun digging through user internals would really do no harm (I don’t believe that’s a particularly typical hobby of small instance admins though xD ).

      • Ashtear@lemm.eeEnglish
        111·
        1 year ago

        One big thing that hasn’t changed from reddit is that lemmy instances are still based on an autocratic power structure. Whether or not your content gets seen or you get to see other content depends on the relationships between those leaders. That means choosing your leadership is of utmost importance, and I eventually settled on lemm.ee because it was the first instance I came across that both a) seemed like it had actual adults running the show, and b) was large enough for that leadership have already faced some challenges and have an established track record.

        That’s the downside to a niche instance.

      • nothacking@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        A good 40% of users are spread out on servers with less then 5% of the overall user base, but that is still a good 60% in the top 5 instances, considering how laggy lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are, I am surprised anyone stays on them.

      • Cryophilia@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Smaller instances take longer to load content from bigger instances.

        I have a kbin account and a lemmy account, but I find myself more active on lemmy because it’s faster to load new content.

      • neutron@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It’s not easy to see the list of all communities in an instance you don’t have an account. If I login and federate as user@example.com, I can see all the local communities inside example.com, but not others like lemmy.world. I don’t mean individual posts or an individual community, I mean list of all instance communities. I think this is one of high priority issues to be patched.

      • vimdiesel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        it’s not that bizarre; people want easy and people don’t seem to really understand how it works so they’d rather go where the most people are or the one that is “trending”.

      • Phazei@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I’ve found that sometimes old posts don’t propagate to newer servers. So if you want to participate in a old thread, you need another account.

      • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        If they ever defederate from piracy communities, yeah, but I don’t think so, admin has a very anti defederate policy, so I see this scenario very hard to occur.

        • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Oh, I don’t really care about piracy communities. I meant on the basis of it getting big.

    • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
      36·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      322·
      1 year ago

      why do people choose it over other instances?

      Non-techy people want a big instance, but .world goes offline too often and .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

      • boredtortoise@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Durotar@lemmy.mlEnglish
        163·
        1 year ago

        .ml doesn’t allow new sign ups.

        It does, however one must know what is six minus two to get the approval.

      • ditty@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        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

        • Lucia [she/her]@eviltoast.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          They closed sign ups during the early days of the migration up until recently. I just missed the moment they’re open again since I’m not interested in large instances.

    • SchizoDenji@lemm.eeEnglish
      201·
      1 year ago

      Because it is more open and lenient in not defedereting and as a user i can choose which subs and instances to block.

      • Cloudless ☼@feddit.ukEnglish
        245·
        1 year ago

        Thanks. Looking at the admin’s profile, he seems to be very reasonable. I especially like this comment he made:

        “Not sure if I actually have to justify removing soviet and/or nazi symbolism, but I have lived my whole life in a country on the border of Russia. My country been ravaged by both Nazis and Soviets in very recent history. I want to be clear that while I think criticising capitalism is totally normal and necessary, I am also extremely aware of constant Kremlin propaganda. Propaganda which is spread both in their media, but also crucially in online channels. Propaganda which includes things like downplaying horrifying actions of the soviet union, portraying their “enemies” (the west) in the worst possible light, and mixing in soviet symbolism wherever possible. I have no intention of allowing anything which resembles this propaganda to be spread through lemm.ee. If banning offending users does not work, then further steps will definitely be taken.”

  • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
    202·
    1 year ago

    I chose ee over ml after what Mali started doing and that site could drop offline at any time.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
        32·
        1 year ago

        I see only two ways for this to stop happening:

        • Instance admins make a collective pact to close registrations if their instance reaches x% of the total active base, and only open again when this number goes down to x/2%. I think x=10 would be a good start.

        • Instead of donations, instances start charging for access after a certain number. This is what my instance is doing: the first 250 active users are free, after that payment is required.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

    • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      This was asked in the lemm.ee discord and the answer given is below.

      Ping times are low everywhere because the files we serve are hosted on globally distributed servers. So if you’re in North America, you will download the frontend code (and images etc) from a North American server. But the backend is actually hosted in Germany

      • Durotar@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Do you know if personal data (like emails, IP addresses) is also distributed across the world? I mean, this is important from the privacy perspective. Different countries have different rules.

        • w2qw@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s just using cloudflare. So likely your private data is just temporarily stored on the CloudFlare node in your region and in Germany.

        • Navarian@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Frankly I have absolutely no idea, I would encourage asking if you’re concerned though.