Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.
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How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
I hope that lemmy makes it but I don't think that it will be easy because:
I agree with the scalability issues. Instance owners are going to run up against whatever they can afford to pay. If a given instance grows to a point where the hardware required to run it would be too expensive, then the admin has a choice: Donations, payment, and/or sponsorship.
All have their pros and cons.
Assuming "Lemmy" becomes popular (there's a ton of barriers preventing this so far). there's inevitably going to be consolidation between whoever can afford to support the largest instances.
Also, I think the most confusing part about the whole "fediverse" is that each instance is the entire "platform" of whatever it's trying to be.
This IMO creates massive fragmentation and a ton of confusion. Which one is the "authoritative" instance? Oh there's none? Oh...well...Hmm.
I'm sort of starting to think of it like this:
Reddit (or whatever fediverse whatever) is like a single shopping mall and the stores are subreddits. Each store needs a unique name.
Lemmy is like a bunch of shopping malls with each shopping mall having its own set of stores.
Stores within a single shopping mall must have a unique name, but can use the same name as a store in another mall. For example, you'd be hard-pressed to find two Foot Lockers in the same mall, but you're likely to find them in pretty much every mall you visit in the USA at least.
Whilst I’m somewhat sad to be here (Reddit has eaten up a significant portion of my time over the past 10+ years), I’m happy to be learning new things and exploring a new way of doing things.
Je trouve ça incroyable, je me suis inscrit ya à peine une semaine et les postes avaient genre 50-100 upvote max et la ça touche les 800. Puis c'est sympa de voir d'avantage de contenu.
I just hope that it will be more distributed than Matrix and not everyone registers on lemmy.ml (matrix.org in case of matrix) so the decentralization works for real here instead of 90% (exaggerating, don't know the numbers) of the user base sitting on one instance :)
with how much .ml is struggling to handle the load I would've expected even more to pick different instances, though the situation seems better than how mastodon.social was during the twitter migration
the upcoming centralization issue sounds like it'll be the communities themselves all being hosted on .ml, not accounts. can't want to see how that one is gonna play out
It's cool The reason why I even joined lemmy is that the administration here allow magnet links
I’m super excited for the potential this has. Happy to be here and hoping to help build a great online community with you all!
As a newbie, I hope the software can catch up to the needs quickly.
I'm not new to Lemmy, I've hung around here on and off a couple times since the start of the year. My biggest complaint about it for a long time was that many of the subs I was interested in were just dead or didnt exist on lemmy. With the new influx of users, I imagine that's going to change, even if it does take a couple more years.
The future of Lemmy is looking very promising :)
When were you when when Reddit die
I was sat at home play Minecraft when Chris ring
'API is die'
'no'
And you?
it's cool
Lemmy go brrrrr
A nice website for looking for servers, platforms, and user numbers over time is: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Also handy for getting a picture of how many lemmy servers there are and how big they are.
Man, I been waiting for this for years. I thought with the way Mastodon grew it'd eventually grow into a wider growth among the fediverse but it seems to happen in fits and starts. Glad to see people are federating too and not all dumping into just the mainline instance.
Next I'd like to see major names move off YouTube and Twitch onto decentralized platforms but that's gonna take much more to get there, unfortunately.
I think we really need to address the scaling issue, one option could be to use clichhouse instead of postgres
Ya love to see it.
Joined Lemmy because of permanent suspension from the Snoosite for harassment, which I clearly didn't commit at that time.
I'm happy for users to join the federated alternative!
Exciting times ahead :)