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Damn I didn’t realize the growth was so massive. For me I started noticing the change in quality in parallel with when they they implemented the “K” for posts with more than 1000 upvotes, amazing that they were not thaaaat common back then.

I started when the guy was at the airport in the ama and people were asking and telling him to do dumb stuff.

Wefwef is a bettter Apollo clone, you.should give that a try

Same here! Except I’m trying mlem instead of Memmy. So far I like it here too

I used Imgur to browse memes for a while. Started after they had just launched and witnessed them grow, then sell out. Ads increased every step of the way, to the point where there were ads while scrolling comments. I hope we’re not headed that way but feel as though it’s almost unavoidable.

Actually quite the opposite, if there are more instances, and they are fairly well balanced the load is shared between them - yes there is some inefficiency, but each server still has less load than if you tried to put all the content and users on one server.

As for how many are willing... There are now over 10,000 Mastodon instances, and many of them are on servers which now have spare capacity (there was a spike in load after Musk first started doing silly things at Twitter, this has reduced a bit since). I think quite a few Mastodon admin are considering spinning up Lemmy and/or kbin too. Mastodon/Lemmy/kbin all integrate with each other and the wider fediverse.

Isn’t Lemmy.world on a CDN though?

Here's what I've gleamed. Say you make a magazine for toys. It is now addressed as [email protected], you associate the word toys as the badge for it. You'll see things posted in microthreads that have that badge under that magazine. However that magazine is separate. Every so often Lemmy will download changes from federated servers like kbin. It will then add your [email protected] and users will see it when they search for toy based Lemmy channels (not sure what it's called). But from that point on, Lemmy will refresh with changes you've made and it'll show up over there. Thats how you browse Lemmy stuff here.

It depends slightly where it is posted, and whether somebody has previously shown interest.

Kbin will see as much of a Lemmy instance as any other Lemmy instance... But a Lemmy post is only mirrored on a kbin instance (or another Lemmy instance) once somebody (anybody) on that instance has subscribed to the community it was posted in.

For the most part that means yes stuff magically just shows up, but if you are seeking something more niche or specialist you might need to seek it out more directly.

Same is true in the other direction, stuff posted in any of the large magazines here on kbin is going to be mirrored to most Lemmy instances, but smaller or new magazines might not see it unless or until somebody there proactively seeks it.