I vaguely know what an instance is, but let me see if I can get this straight.

So an instance in the Fediverse is a website hosted either on a web hosting service, right? So it's like if I wanted to start one, it'd be similar to starting an old fashion forum like phpBB? I'd buy a domain, get a webhosting service, and install the software?

And the communities are analogous to sub forums? Except instead of me creating them, the users on my forum would create them?

Yep that's basically it

I might start one then. I ran a couple of forums back in the 2000s. They were more barren than the Saharan desert, but I did it.

Are the two of us not on different instances? I might not understand what I thought I did.

What happen

You are. You understand.

The real issue is where the communities are, rather than the users. Smaller instances can't easily attract large communities of people from outside their own, so the larger instances get to run the main communities for everyone. It's working as intended but it's all in the numbers.

A lot of the federation links were set up years ago, so I wonder if anyone is even activily trying to federate, like we used to when it all began.

Like, the NSFW instance went down some years ago, and I don't think anyone from the instance I'm using has bothered federating with a new one with that kind of content, or at least it doesn't pop up anymore. Which is fine, so I also don't bother, but for a newcomer it might seem odd that some instances have more connections than others and such.

only like 20 of those are a little good

I get lots of content from other instances and when I search for communities I see all the instances that such-and-such community? If you have spent any time online you know that large != good community. Yes some are defed' but that's fine by me.

What have I missed? I signed up for the piracy friendly perspective - https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy is still here?

that's a clear mistranslation in the bibble. 144,000 is how many sexes god has

This thread has been very eye opening abiut how fucking dumb many of you are and how ignorant you are about the fediverse etc.
I expected some (valid) .world hate but so many of these comments makes me confused about how many people even ended up here because their obvious idiocy and ignorance points to that not being possible.

How are you so unable to use your brain?
The function and idea of decentralisation isn't to evenly distribute users across every instance, some instances being much larger than others is and extremely obvious thing.

You might try one of the .zips. Very competent admins who defederate from next to nothing, leaving the choice up to the user (mainly as opt-in blocks, with just ~3 opt-out ones iirc).

If you roll your own though then probably PieFed/PyLova would be much easier than Lemmy to deploy and manage.

Regardless of how the most controversial communities on Lemmy.world decide to be, it's good to spread out and decentralize.

Settings -> scroll down to Import/Export Settings, click the Export button, repeat with Import in the new account, works even across Lemmy -> PieFed or PyLova.

Yeah you're on the 'anarchist' instance. Lemmy.world users can't see the piracy community at all I think. Pretty sure they blocked it. At the very least, there used to be a piracy community on lemmy.world as well but it got banned and deleted.

We just recently fell below 30K, as the Fediverse Observer site crapped out.

We held 40K for a long time, down from 65K at the peak, but our decline in active users continues, despite all that Reddit continues to do to piss off their userbase.

The guy running it had some health issues and couldn't maintain it anymore, as I recall.

Same

I have seen a lot of hate, it's my inbox which gets everything lol

I also see a lot of bots. Maybe just ignore them. I bet they ain't even ppl

Hey it’s me! An idiot!

I mean, you are on a platform named after an animal that's famous for wandering off cliffs because they blindly follow the herd¹

Make of that what you will

¹ I know it's a myth but still

Lemmy.world has enshitified. People still won't leave. We should be encouraging migration, not saying "it's good enough."

No, it isn't. People will refuse to leave, just as we've seen with FB, Reddit, etc. Lemmy.world has already enshitified from where it started, and from the position of nearly every other instance, yet people like you are still there. That's proof against your argument.

is over 9000!!!

somebody set us up the bomb.

Actually the platform is Lemmy, not lemmings :)

No, .world does not block dbzer0, only its piracy community

I haven't noticed it getting worse. 🤷

Just federate yourself, the new one is https://fedinsfw.app/

Oh sorry! I somehow read your comment as if /c/piracy@dbzer0 had closed down piracy and generally started to censor the instance. Don't ask how misread ?/_-

Great success to the worst instance.

So lemmy get this right, if I personally subscribe to !titties@fedinsfw.app then all users on my instance will eventually have that instance in their all feed?

I believe legitimately yes though I'm not super positive. I just see it scroll across my all feed already.

*set up us

.world has that community blocked.

It's named after an animal who liked to gamble - they win some lose some it's all the same to them

This is one of the things that were easier in a browser or the older apps. It's quite tricky to do in Voyager. Can't even open the instance page.
Whatever. I think I succeeded. There are now naked titties in my feed. I don't know if that's good but it feels more right.

How do you do it in Voyager?

When I click on this link it just opens the instance in my browser.

Damn... Looks like I gotta move my account from World.

You have to subscribe to a community from your instance

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/170880

Click this.

!titties@fedinsfw.app

Click the top right menu and subscribe.

I think I just found my new home. Thank you.

at least mbin is still going