At the time of writing, Lemmyworld has the second highest number of active users (compared to all lemmy instances)
Also at the time of writing, Lemmyworld has >99% uptime.
By comparison, other lemmy instances with as many users as Lemmyworld keep going down.
What optimizations has Lemmyworld made to their hosting configuration that has made it more resilient than other instances’ hosting configurations?
See also Does Lemmy cache the frontpage by default (read-only)? on !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
“clown world” was at least initially a reference to how the CIA meddles in the affairs of the world (Clowns In America).