I just noticed that active users on Lemmy got slashed, what happened?
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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That is a very weird thing to do, unless they are looking to boost their own instance.
You can read their motivation in the linked pull request. FWIW I don't think there's any ill intent here and certainly not an attempt to boost their own instance. I think they just want Lemmy to be decentralized and lemmy.world being as big as it is kinda prevents that.
I'm not sure I would've done it that way personally but I can see the reasoning and it's not entirely unreasonable.
In my humble opinion, join lemmy should only exclude the instances that is harmful.
They should not choose the instances to include for the users.
Lemmy.world becoming the default Lemmy instance, and it growing to outsize all other instances is a danger: it makes the Fediverse centralized, easy to take down and easy to take over.
The same applies to the mastodon . Social instance and the same applies really to every Fediverse software available, with the exception of pixelfed.
Why not that one? I'm not familiar with pixelfed.
Pixelfed has a default limit to the number of users per instance.
But this is only a default right? Surely an admin can open registration anyway?
I believe yes, but at the last time I checked it out no instance had open registration, matter of fact you will have to look for good time for a free instance to register on.
Maybe they changed it now, but 1 year ago that was the case.