Lemmy.world is run by the same people as mastodon.world. I guess a lot of users from mastodon.world went to Lemmy.world and the rest was word of mouth.

[–] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think the name does a lot of heavy lifting in regards to pulling in new users. It sounds more official or general because of the world part.

[–] tea@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, people just want a "generic" place because they generally don't want to be pidgeon holed. I have nice and inoffensive lemmy.world and lemmy.today accounts because of this. I'm basically a vanilla NPC in my life and "sh.itjust.works" is simply too spicy!

[–] ikapoz@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I’m on the spicy instance? I couldn’t tell.

[–] victron@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Also Sync has it as default.

[–] Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is more or less what I thought when I first joined.