I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I signed up on the 12th, after spending a little time comparing with the information I had. My thought process was:

    • I was uncomfortable with the fact that .ml was hosted in Malaysia
    • I thought a larger instance might mean it sticks around longer, but didn’t really want to be on the largest (which .ml was)
    • Beehaw seemed otherwise a good fit, but their policies seemed too restrictive
    • .world seemed to have liberal policies, allowed NSFW, was large but not largest, and was hosted in a country that didn’t worry me
    • nosedive@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I was uncomfortable with the fact that .ml was hosted in Malaysia

      Not to discount your other points, but lemmy.ml isn’t hosted in Malaysia. The .ml TLD is for Mali, a country in Africa. And the site is hosted by OVH, on servers in France.

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        1 year ago

        Wow, thanks for that, I really thought .ml was Malaysia. While I had some mild concerns about Malaysia, isn’t Mali a shit show as far as human rights? If the servers are in France, that mitigates a lot, but I think I have more concerns about Mali.

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          1 year ago

          Mali has nothing to do with the instance though. Every country has a top level domain, like .CA or .UK etc. Most of them you have to pay to make a website using the domain. Mali is one country that lets anybody use the ML domain for free. That’s the only reason Lemmy.ml uses it, they have nothing to do with Mali else-wise. (Well there is the bit about ML = Marxist Leninist, but that is a bit of a backronym.)