I don’t know if this is just a placebo effect, but it feels like there’s a lot more socialization and faster upvotes in the past hour Sync was released.
I joined but this hexbear lemmy.world defederation stinks of censorship so I’ll be moving to another instance.
Because it has a clean interface and many people were waiting for the app to be released before they jumped on, at least that’s the case for me, I used jerboa a bit but is a bit too clunky after being used to sync for so many years
Honestly, I’m sticking with Thunder. They look nearly the same, and Thunder is FOSS. Loved Sync, but I’ve found my new home.
Tbh I like what Thunder could become. It’s great, but not there yet for me.
It just needs a little time and some love from other open source contributors.
I think lemmy.world had some downtime and they came back up. lemmy.world is one of the biggest traffic drivers.
Probably will increase even more as more and more users want to try Lemmy.
Probably they try to sign up for Lemmy.world and experience technical issues due to ddos, unfortunately.
I don’t mind lemmy.world being recommended to newcomers as it’s run by an established and reliable admin (so it’s unlikely to just disappear), but it might be a good idea to start recommending lemm.ee as an alternative, too.
Their admin is also great, it’s also general-purpose, and they are federated with most instances. It would help spread the load a bit, and would shield newcomers from suffering through the frequent attacks .world have been subjected to recently.
That argument is silly (instances may disappear).
It’s the other way around - if small instances don’t get users, they may decide to shut down.
So if you want a healthy fediverse, you should encourage many instances. Otherwise it becomes like reddit.
The argument about instances disappearing has less to do with size and more to do with who runs it. Ruud having a track record with Mastodon.world suggests .world won’t be another vlemmy situation.
Lemmy.sdf.org is another great instance to recommend for the same reason.
