Okay, it’s actually 18955 at the time of this post. I’m looking at https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list and lemmy.world has already passed beehaw.org by a large margin for second place.

Can’t wait for this place to start filling out!

UPDATE: 5 minutes after the post, it’s now 19061. Officially more than 19000!

  • slashzero@hakbox.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    In addition to that,

    • I like the challenge of leaning new technologies and hosting my own web apps
    • It lets me feel that I have a bit more control over my user and posts
    • I get my own vanity domain / user address
    • I get a good understanding of how the lemmy frontend, backend and database work (yay open-source!)
    • I can keep my instance up to date with the latest lemmy releases (some are still running 0.17.3!)
    • I can do some dev work and testing on my instance, if I want, without impacting others
    • it reduces load on the main instances

    There’s more, but I think that’s a good enough list for now. Have a nice day!