Haggis whiskers are similar, but quite rare nowadays.

One of the greatest joys of federation, is de-federation.

Kbin is very young software. The dev was doing really well, then /u/spez dumped 10-bajillion users on it. I’m surprised the servers are still operating.

Lemmy’s a lot more mature, but it’s never been tested with this kind of traffic. It’s impressive that any of these sites are still going. I’d give it at least another month until things settle, adjustments are made, instances update, et c. et c.

An art instance is a brave move. Lemmy takes up a lot of disk space already, but encouraging images means a lot more disk space. Lemmy also allows multiple images per post.

I don’t think anyone can tell where we’re going. Mastodon.social was the largest instance by far for some time, then at the deluge, it splintered.

Part of the reason for Mastodon to fracture is specialization - each instance does something unique. Maybe Lemmy will do the same, maybe not.

But if we end up with 3 primary instances, it’s still decentralized - I think the most useful feature of Lemmy isn’t that we’re spread out, it’s that we could be.

More like a teenager with their first job.

This week, Lemmy becomes a man.

In all fairness to the devs, Lemmy’s had a dozen users + the devs until now, then /u/spez pulls his stunt, and we’re looking at how it operates with 0.0000000000001% of Reddit, which is apparently 20-bajillion people.