Just saw this on AskLemmy at .ml, thought this and chuckled, and now here we are.

Will take the opportunity to thank our admins for what they do, and all you humans for being here and generally being cool.

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Personally I would go with Monthly Active Users, e.g. since Hexbear has managed to run off a good fraction of its users over time (which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well).

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    This puts sh.itjust.works as #4, which it’s been for a good long while, above Lemmy.ml and Hexbear and nearly all other instances.

    Link, but the URL does not preserve the options shown, so you have to resort by Monthly Active Users.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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      13 days ago

      (which lemmy.world is in the process of doing as well)

      I’m one of them. Luigi censoring was the catalyst. I came to Lemmy to get away from corporate censorship. It also doesn’t help that it’s slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        13 days ago

        I’m surprised to hear about the slowness issue - I think this is the first time that I have, though I am definitely spoiled at Discuss.Online that has such a great technical admin (he also is the one who was developing Sublinks, before life and a baby intervened:-). Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

        Tbf there is legit fear in the USA that Trump will start to place bans or at least watchlists on social media outlets that Musk does not make money off of. Then again, I thought that LW wasn’t really associated with the USA in any way besides having a bunch of users from it, and anyway you have found a perfect solution to the problem - if they don’t want it, go somewhere else that does allow what you need.:-)

        • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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          13 days ago

          Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

          Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don’t know if it’s because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it’s a very significant difference.

          LW isn’t associated with the US except for the fact that they’re keen to kowtow to corporate censorship to avoid being sued and the like. Since they’re by far the most visible instance on Lemmy I can’t really blame them and it’s probably better that they’re more cautious to possibly take some of the heat off of everyone else. As you said, they didn’t serve my needs, so I went elsewhere - having that option is what I love about the fediverse.

          • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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            13 days ago

            If LW helped you migrate from Reddit to the Threadiverse until you knew more what you were looking for and could find a true home in lemm.ee that meets your needs better, then both of them sound awesome at their respective roles to me.:-)

    • Universal Monk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Lemmy.world has become a pro-censorship toxic shithole lately. Sooo glad I was made to find other instances.

      Beauty of the fediverse… If one place sucks, just find a different one 😊

    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      14 days ago

      Man, I just wanted to chant “We’re #5”, now I have people coming at me with facts. :p

      (Jokes aside, I appreciate it. There’s nuance to these metrics and what best accounts for ‘size’, particularly for those cases/services where the metrics reflect a little bugginess anyway)