Anyone know why the recent spike? That's not negligible.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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https://lemmy.world/post/43035743/22099833 Apparently old forum software was updated to use the federation and all the old users got tallied up and added. Also people flocking from Reddit and X too.
Because reddit moderation has become utterly unbearable, insufferable bad.
I've been using BBSs, newsgroups, MIRC, ICQ, a million ass forums and social media for almost 40 years now.
I've never been banned from anywhere on the net (and before).
And yet in the last three months I've been temp banned 3 times on reddit. All for their AI moderation systems misunderstanding Australian colloquialisms as threatening violence.
It's utter bullshit.
People are leaving reddit as a result.
"Toss some shrimp on the barbie"
What? Is this Aussie for kill CEOs?? Banned.
Thanks
Even for things we're excited about, truncating the y-axis is never okay 😕
One that is not blocked by a lot of other instances....
I joined this one because the main one was defederating a whole bunch of pirate ones and that makes no goddamn sense. thanks 👍
mods will be like hey let's make it so our users can't access stuff. that makes sense. I bet that's what they want. they want to not have access to things. they think it's good
smart and federal
.world is squeamish about upsetting corpos because they're the biggest instance.
For someone entirely new to this, please ELI5 why it matters?
Entirely at random I signed up at feddit.uk
Does it mean I'm walled off from specific content? Am I in a dead part of the fediverse? And how do I change if I am.
It doesn't. Pick whatever instance and if another catches your eye make an account there as well. You don't have to limit yourself to one account on one instance. I started on feddit.de, then lemm.ee now hexbear and use this account to see some posts I wouldn't from hexbear since they have more of a safe space mentality than this instance
Okay, so it matters for a few reasons.
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Instances have different rules. So you can banned by your own instances local admins for things you might not get banned for on other instances.
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If you wanted to make your own community, you'd automatically be hosting it on feddit.uk, so that matters to a degree when it comes to the local culture there.
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Instances have their own blocklists. So your instance might be blocking (defederating) another instance that has a lot of users. Or it might just as likely be blocked by another instance. This isn't the case for feddit.uk, which maintains wide federation.
Feddit.uk specifically is a UK based lemmy. If you look up the local communities, you can see that is the geographical/cultural focus.
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Why are there so many people coming here allegedly from this chart starting with this year
For me at least, reddits ban bot has gotten way too sensitive and the reviewers don't actually read the appeal. I got a permaban for "threatening violence" just saying the word "kill" in context of a cat hunting birds, tried to appeal and immediately got a notification that the ban won't be reversed, because they obviously didn't read the comment that triggered the ban.
So now I'm here
Blahaj.zone we're chill AF here
I don't like that you can't downvote, though.
Exactly. I look at downvotes on articles as a kind of fact curator. If an article has 50/50, you know it’s gotta be wrong.
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OHHH THAT'S why Voyager gives me an error.
Sigh, these are the things rhat might drive people away from Lemmy and Piefed. Lemmy devs are tankies, Piefed devs are weirdly puritanical, and instances won't tell you they don't allow downvotes.
Ah, well that would explain why Voyager kept giving errors every time I tried
Wait what that's not a thing on blahaj??
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Just FYI everyone, this spike is sort of a glitch and its quite obvious just from looking at how steep the curve is. It all comes from nodebb which is a forum software and i guess they switched on federation on 11.01.2026 which gave us this magical bump.
They are real users probably, but what i mean is that this wasnt a rush of new users, but just old (mostly inactive) users that were never considered part of the fediverse until now.
On a slightly different note NodeBB is very cool and worth checking out. Did those unaware it's a Goodreads, Letterboxd, Steam Reviews, etc all rolled into one.
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Assuming we're talking about instances we'd recommend to new Fediverse users, I'd recommend against lemmy.world. Not because there's anything wrong with the instance, but simply because it's the largest, by a fairly large margin. A central principal of the fediverse is decentralization, and to that end, it's healthier to spread the users across many instances than to have folks concentrated too heavily on any one.
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Well, it depends on what they want. There are different platforms in the fediverse that work very differently. Mastodon and Lemmy/PieFed can interact with each other, but it's always painful. For Lemmy/PieFed I'd recommend they look for an instance that has a local feed that fits their interests. Ideally an instance that is federated with most large instances, otherwise it gets a little too boring.
!main@sh.itjust.works they are very new-user friendly, diaspora: idfk its dead, mastodon: official instance, peertube: peertube.wtf with official app to do federation stuff
Second for sh.itjust.works
I picked this server cause the name was funny and it was large enough that I expected not to run into small-server problems.
I stayed because I have not run into any small-server problems and our admin is a very cool guy.
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Recommend:
Avoid:
- Lemmy.ml (Tankie fascist koolaid. Unless you enjoy being gaslit and manipulated similar to Trump and his fascist thugs, this should be avoided like the bubonic plague)
- Lemmy.world (sorry guys but seriously please reconsider accepting literally everyone for users; it's crazy how much spam and nonsense is coming from your instance)
I mainly dislike lemmy.world because it’s Americans owning the place like usual.
Ironically LW is run by a European team (the top admin is Dutch), but still communities like !politics@lemmy.world are only for US news...
Just a warning: Piefed has a lot of shady built in hidden karma. Like you posting “this” or a gif only detracts from your karma. They also block you from downvoting if you downvote more than you upvote. It’s not really free speech at all.
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