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The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn't quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (12 children)

This is true, but there are good reasons it's shaking out this way:

  • Lemmy.world has had some of the most open signups compared to other major instances

  • Discovery of communities across instances is a little harder, specifically natural discovery instead of directly searching

  • It is easier to just tell incoming users to sign on to the instance your community is hosted on because you know it's safe and they won't ever be locked out by defederation

I think the rise of more topic-specfiic instances like ttrpg.network will help spread the load out.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Natural discovery needs to be worked on.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (9 children)

just raise awareness about tools like this one https://lemmyverse.net/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

just raise awareness about tools like this one https://lemmyverse.net/

I also think that something like LCS or Lemmony should be recommended and/or included in the default Lemmy docker compose file.

That way, when new Lemmy servers get spun up, they will automatically get seeded with content and communities from other existing Lemmy servers.

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