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[–] designated_fridge@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don't want to be that guy but does this guy have a good track record? Kind of feel he managed to get a good Lemmy domain (generic sounding one) and now he has the biggest instance.

Do we know he's a jolly good fellow?

[–] ritswd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not too worried about it, because:

• He’s been running a fairly large Mastodon instance too, and it seems like it’s been going well.

• If I end up disappointed, the beauty of the fediverse is that I can up and leave. In fact, I already did: I started with an account on Beehaw, and I moved to Lemmy.world when they defederated a few instances whose contents I was interested in. It was a fairly painless move.

So for now I’m donating $5/month, and we’ll see what happens from here.

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

And when very disappointed, nobody stops users from starting their own instance and federate from there.

[–] cerevant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Here are the key factors I see behind Lemmy.world’s success:

  • Lemmy.ml was buckling under load, and at least one of the admins (and Lemmy developer) is an unapologetic communist & China sympathizer.
  • Beehaw.org is a classic powermod situation where the admins want to micromanage every community. It also was struggling under load.
  • Lemmy.world was scaled quickly to handle the load, hasn’t been controversial in their policies, and for the most part just works.

As has been pointed out in other comments, the power of the fediverse is that if one instance becomes “evil”, users and communities can and will abandon it for another instance.

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Isn't it a bit funny that you are asking that after you have already joined the server and accepted all the rules, etc?

Do we know he’s a jolly good fellow?

I mean that's up to you to decide, idk. what answer you are expecting.. You have the same information on him as we do, the info on his mastadon:

https://mastodon.world/@ruud