this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Fediverse

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A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

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This happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?!

https://fedidb.org/software

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

It's amazing how fast it's growing. According to Lemmy Explorer, there are nearly 900 Instances, encompassing almost 13,000 communities. The forum software could stand some improvement, like having a way to group all your communities in one place, or figuring out whether an instance is federated. I really like the decentralized aspect of it. If a corporation tries to take over and ruin the largest instance (like what's happening to Reddit), then folks can migrate over the the second-most popular instance(s) while the biggest one withers and dies.

Also, Mastodon looks like a great replacement for Twitter.