I think being added to join-lemmy definitely helps but people that are already on Lemmy aren’t going to that site so it definitely shows that we are growing (or at least replacing people at a decent rate)

Sounds like you have a good instance, congrats on the growth

This is the only comment your instance knows about because of the way federation works. I can see his comment history goes back 1.7 years

It’s just the default front end that does that. Using a front end like voyager can automatically redirect links to the instance you are signed in on, more apps and the default front end ought to do that quite frankly

Ironic considering Lemmy.world is Dutch I believe

I’m mean there is no real downside to having and sharing an opinion outside the “hive mind”

“Karma” on Lemmy isn’t tracked. Having a negative score comment or post doesn’t affect your account or experience at all. I’ve posted plenty that has gotten downvoted into the negative and I haven’t even gotten a warning because Lemmy is an actual free speech platform unlike twitter or Reddit.

That doesn’t mean that everyone has to like your opinions though, hence the downvotes, but that’s ok.