I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.

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    Honestly going for the ‘largest’ instance is kind of dumb naive. Smaller, faster instances provide a much better experience. Bigger is not better in the fediverse.

    The whole point is to decentralise power away from a single instance, CEO or monopoly. If you’re on a small instance you can still see all the content you want from all the other instances and you might even get a meaningful say in how your experience develops.

    We don’t want to build another Reddit we want to build an alternative that is better structured.

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      Honestly going for the ‘largest’ instance is kind of dumb. Smaller, faster instances provide a much better experience. Bigger is not better in the fediverse.

      Ok, but how is a new user supposed to know that?

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      Then there should be a single unified sign up page that sends you to a random instance or something. You still need an easy onboarding process for less technical people

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        I don’t know, I kind of like that it’s something new to get your head around. It’s a pretty fundamentally different type of internet than what we have now. It reminds me of what it was like back in dial up days.

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      Is it really that dumb though? Small instances might provide a better experience until they close down.

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        But small instances are very low cost to run, so much so that a few donations from their users is usually enough to cover the costs and upkeep.