Kind of obvious how it works isn’t it? You become hateful as you fight evil, and you become more and more accepting of cruelty as long as it’s to the enemy. Happens in wars all the time.

You become what you fight, very easily, if you are not careful.

It’s very nice, and thanks for including all instances. We are supposed to be a network of Lemmy instances working together. This site highlights that idea so thank you.

If I could offer an improvement idea, it would be to first show instances that are down in it’s own group, and then every other instance exactly as it’s done now, in alphabetical order.

Well everyone else is extreamly overpriced. I work with cloud environments as part of my job, and its silly the amount of money being spent on AWS.

“Pay for what you use” is more like “pay us for every little thing that would be free if you owned the server”.

I’m glad LW is hosted there too, it’s a good service and really good customer service as well.

Could be but there was a button at the top of the scanning site where I could push to make a fresh scan. And still it shows up as phishing.

Very mysterious but it will be interesting to find out why…

Im the instance owner of lemmy.today. I contacted fortinet about this and will share their response when it comes.

The instance is running latest version of the default lemmy software on a rented server by Hetzner, so Im very curious what they say about this. There is nothing else on it. :)

That’s actually really interesting. What’s the purpose of so many inactive accounts at once?

Seems to be enough to have a few of them, and not a million accounts since it clearly will rise suspicion… :)

Very good that you found them. Fascinating.

Maybe an attempt to try and make the fediverse look more active than it was back then, to get headlines about how it has explosive growth etc. It was June and everything really took off then.

If an instance becomes too dominant, users actually love it.

Example: Lemmy.world :)

Some users just want to melt in to the crowd I guess.

I have my own domain and i love it. In fact, it’s going to become more and more important knowing how to self host things. Big tech is extreamly preditory.

I agree with your point of view but there is nothing that can be done about it.

It does feel sad to see one giant instance have almost all users and all traffic for me too. I was hoping it would become a proper decentralized platform with hundreds of islands of different servers filled with people and communities.

But fine, we don’t always get what we want. I’m disappointed but will keep using Lemmy anyway. It’s not a big tech service at least which is wonderful, and most people are nice.

I was really surprised by this too but yeah, people want to be on the same largest instance. I guess it’s a community feeling by doing that. Or at least a feeling of safety, since it’s unlikely the instance shuts down.

I got a few new people on my instance that specifically said they wanted a smaller instance while Lemmy.world had issues.

I think there are like 1100+ instances now. No reason to hang out on the largest one unless you absolutely have to.

Once you have two or more accounts, it’s just a click in the mobile client (Jerboa, Liftoff etc) to switch profiles. Takes a second.

You will have to set up your subscriptions to communities again though on a new account. That can be annoying but kind of worth it.

I kind of just end up using Tokyonight, it’s hard to find anything better.

It doesn’t really matter what they use. As long as it’s open source and decentralized, avoiding big tech running the servers, it’s a huge win.

There is no peaceful existence with big tech when it comes to this. They will turn it into ads and tracking and that’s not compatible with the moral values of the open source community.

It’s Microsoft culture vs Linux culture.

All instances using federation are publicly visible and it’s simple to script attacking all of us.

However it’s even easier to just attack Lemmy.world since almost everyone is there and it will have maximum disruption on everyone. People have centralized on one server. :)

But it’s just some denial of service attacks right now. Eventually they probably get tired of it too. There is no point to it really.

The instance is known by its domain name in the federation network. If that domain name changes, it’s like starting a new instance from scratch.

Sounds like a complicated project to migrate communities and posts and users to a new instance without breaking something.

Well of course. Lemmy is not censored like the other social media platforms so you will get to hear what people actually think here.

A lot of people feel uncomfortable around gay and trans people. It will take time.

This didn’t happen a month ago. More users, more idiots.

Yes. I’m already noticing a lot more rude and immature people as the number of users grow.