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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

99% isn't the threshold. I'd say like 25% or less

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Doesn't LW control ~30% of the lemmyverse?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It controls ~30% of the threadiverse, then.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where is that number coming from?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My head. Lemmy.world has 15,000 (roughly) monthly active users, the threadiverse has roughly 60,000 active users,

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

15.5/36.3 is 43%

Data from Lemmy.world sidebar and fedidb.com

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well 25% is very strict, pretty sure mastodon.social is more than that for the Fediverse (I do wish other instances would grow faster to catch up)

But yea anything higher than 50% is kinda missing the point, ideally they would close signups and suggest people signup on alternative instances instead

Majority share is too powerful

join-lemmy.org actually hides any instance that's over 30% of Lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/instances.tsx#L451-L456

[–] airportline@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

ideally they would close signups and suggest people signup on alternatives instead

Is that what you would actually expect Bluesky to do if they were committed to decentralization?

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Bluesky traded good user distribution for growth.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 points 2 days ago

I said "ideally", but they probably would've done a lot of things differently if they were committed to decentralization