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What caused the massive exodus to lemmy.ml? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What caused users to sign up to specifically lemmy.ml, instead of other servers? I am aware a lot of users signed up after the spez AMA, but even before the AMA the site was overloaded.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, I think it was a combination of not understanding the system and not knowing anything about any instances. Which ones can you trust to not just shut down and make you loose your data?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This, I wanted to join an instance with management I somewhat agreed with on matters of federation and had longevity. I didn’t want to join beehaw or lemmy.one for the first reason; and the others don’t really have the longevity to see how admins will react in certain cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Am super new. What happens with my account if "my" Lemmy instance shuts down? What are my safeguards?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If your instance shuts down, you won't be able to use that account, and your existing content will be in a limbo of pre-shutdown instances knowing about them and post-shutdown ones not. I assume a similar limbo will happen to the communities hosted on your instance, but I'm not entirely sure on what specifically will happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like something that will have to be addressed. Thus is definitely a reason to have an account with a large, established instance.