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I run lemmyverse.org.
Absolutely.
As someone who owns their own instance, it is hard to get your instance recognized. You don’t have much content because of the lack of people, and it’s hard to get content if you don’t have people join. It’s a chicken and the egg scenario. Because of this some people choose to re-post content from Reddit to attract people over to their instance. It’s great to see the Lemmy community grow, but everyone joining a few huge Lemmy servers kind of defeats the purpose of the fediverse.
I tried to upgrade via the instructions doing a git pull
and then running ansible again and it totally broke my site with a server error
message. I ended up reverting back to 0.17.4.
EDIT: It looks like they added some extra NGINX proxy stuff in there. All that broke my instance and I had previously just deployed via ansible following the instructions on their page. I would stay away for now.
There could be a few reasons.
Personally, I think adding some of your favorite Reddit posts is fine as long as you don’t blindly copy over everything from a subreddit. I have a couple communities that I brought over that I like, but without content, they mean nothing.
I belive > 50% are bot accounts, maybe more.
I wish my local city’s community had more people, but I’m afraid they’ll never move over. Oh well, i created it anyway.
I’ve also created a few others that will get buried.
Small instance with about 3 users and myself online for about 2 weeks.