I just gave away my private key used to access my vps via ssh.
The website is secured with SSL ✓ and network traffic encrypted with TLSv1.3 ✓.
Furthermore, the website uses IPv6 ✓ and my private key is encrypted with AES256 ✓✓✓. Nobody else can access it.
No, the MAU (which is what I assume you meant) seems to be going down very slowly. Though it probably will start going up once again someday. Possibly when the new digg is released to the public or when Reddit pulls another shit that not even the current Redditors will be able to tolerate.
I personally don't have a problem with the current state. I like it here. I recognize lots of people every day comment and post. It feels cozy.
It's easy to make one. But why would you want that?
As time goes by and more and more people join the Fediverse, I'm sure some niche comms will start taking off. I don't like bots mirroring content from somewhere else, even as a help. In fact, I will immediately unsubscribe from any comm that starts doing that. And I'm sure many people also would.
The Fediverse is a network comprised of such software (Lemmy, Mastodon, PieFed, PixelFed, etc.)
Federation is the ability for different platforms to communicate using an agreed upon language (in the Fediverse, this language is called ActivityPub).
So if Instagram and Twitter were federated, you'd be able to post your photos on Instagram and have them also be on Twitter, all without having a seperate account at Twitter. All the likes and comments on Twitter will be available on Instagram and vice versa.
And because of this, servers (or instances of platforms) are not really dependant on each other. So even if lemmy.world were to shut down, every other instance will still operate just fine. For example, I run my own Lemmy instance lemmy.asudox.dev. Even if every other Lemmy instance were shut down, my instance will still continue operating without any issues. Any new instance can then link with my instance and start federating. The power of decentralization.
The video and my explanation are over simplifications. Federation will not work between all instances the same. Mastodon and Lemmy don't federate fully. For example, Mastodon has no communities. Mastodon users just post (or "toot", like "tweet" in twitter) on their profile. So you can't subscribe (or follow) users in Mastodon from Lemmy nor see their posts, unless they post it in a community (which appear as just another user in Mastodon).
If you want to know more about the technical details, check the specification for ActivityPub at W3C.
Spez will fuck with Reddit's userbase and make the platform absolute bullshit to use, yet 90% of redditors will still keep sucking his dick over and over again.
"LeMmY iS tOo HaRd To UsE!! wTf Is An InStAnCe???"
github isnt open source though