I am fine with the place settling for a bit. It would suck if this place was as big as other sites are overnight. I want to watch this place grow over time
Natural, healthy, positive growth! Not growth for growths sake
Yes! Enough of the “I’m doing my part meme” that isn’t even real content.
It is!
Would you like to know more?
I’m doing my part
And I’m doing my part.
It’s not but it drives the discussion. I feel that at this point, some participation is better than no participation at all
I disagree completely, but thanks for your take.
You’re welcome
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This man needs more upvotes!
Natural, healthy, positive upvotes! No upvotes for upvotes sake
Exactly. No one likes an steroids user. Natural growth is always the way!
Yeah, my main problem so far has been finding communities actually worth following/joining/contributing to.
If suddenly tons of average people join, they won’t really find communities, they’ll deem that their analysis of Lemmy, and leave with tiny chances of a second chance. It’ll just boom and bust in it’s current state. Most people aren’t interested in starting or growing a small community.
Meanwhile, if we stay at this size for a while, communities may form/grow, and as people trickle in, they’ll grow bit by bit.
This looks great thank you, going to have a deep dive.
Excellent!
Yea and a lot of that may be bot accounts that are getting banned/being shut off.
Yes. I do not want another Reddit.
never go full reddit
I, for one, am not going anywhere. ✊🏻
I’m interested in seeing how well these great open source apps for Lemmy scale as the user base and post/comment data grows.
The apps are already amazing and will not suffer issues of scale themselves because they run on users’ devices. The scaling issues will be in Lemmy server code and ActivityPub in general.
ActivityPub doesn’t seem very scalable IMHO. It works well if all instances are about the same size and communities are well-distributed. Right now a few servers like lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.ml are much larger than others. They host most of the popular communities as well. This creates an imbalance which ActivityPub doesn’t handle well.
I think Lemmy instances should be topic based. But that’d be confusing for people coming from centralized social media who are only trying to find a reliable starting place. So I really hope we reach a point of maturity and mainstream-ness of Fediverse that people feel comfortable with smaller theme-based instances.
My main gripe with ActivityPub is that the infrastructure basically replicates 1-to-1 across subscribed instances. It means that as lemmy grows, servers will require more and more storage to keep up. For now, it’s fine since we’re under a few TB of content on the platform.
If lemmy were to be as popular as reddit, we’d reach the dozens if not hundreds of TB of storage required. Not everyone has the money to build such a homelab or rent data center servers of that caliber.
ActivityPub in it’s current state is nothing but replicated centralization, not a full decentralized protocol. We’d probably need a different database system that handles cross region clustering and sharing to scale it up.
If you don’t mirror everything locally, you can lose data when other instances go down. Decentralization just has high data costs, take a look at git or bitcoin. I just hope ActivityPup learned something from Diaspora, where small instances couldn’t handle the amount traffic comming from big instances.
My point was that there is no need to replicate everything everywhere. If the data is replicated a cross 5 instances per region for instance, it’s enough for replication needs. If you self host lemmy and subscribes to large communities on your instance, you can quickly overload your server. We need activity pub to be more lightweight if we want smaller instances to thrive.
As long as we have the population to stabilize the big communities and slowly fill out the niche ones as reddit drives ever downward. I think we will be ok.
I hope that the lemmy devs take this time to look at how they’re distributing users. We need a better browser for people to find what instances to join. The next Reddit exodus is going to be massive and .ml and .world aren’t ready for it.
The brain-drain has already happened on reddit and it’s only a matter of time before the good content and 3rd party development explodes here on Lemmy.
Commenting so I have commented in July.
Nice July comment. Here’s my July comment.
First post please ignore
Test post, please ignore.
Roger that
July comments incoming
July
july
July
July
July
You can call me your July reply guy
I am also july
Ohai
Christmas in July, happy Christmas.
Another July comment
me too
I see what you did there
Hi
Roger, dude.
Me too, thanks.
Same
same, may as well make my first comment here
Same here
July?
No, I think he’s telling the truth
Is that how it works? I can’t remember if I’ve commented lately.
Buy the dip!!!
I’m a woman and child
Skill issue
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I am also a woman and a child.
Goo goo ga ga this stroller isn’t going to push itself
I’m just a woman in love
I’m Brian and so’s my wife
My favorite kind
Sorry I was busy this weekend.
You are not allowed to be busy, you need to shit post nonstop.
So Long And Thanks For All The Fish 🐟
Yall got fish? All I got was beans.
And dysentery.
BBBBEEEEAAAANNNNSSSSSWENEEDMOREBEEAANNSS
Beans? I only got old memes
🐬 SO SAD THAT IT HAS COME TO THIS 🐬
🐬 WE TRIED TO WARN YOU ALL BUT OH DEAR 🐬
That is probably my fault, I’m cursed and the moment I ever join any organization or community, something invariably always happens.
You should join as many terrorist organisations as you can
Bruh…did you just tell me to become a terrorist?
Why does this always happen to me too? Is this some sort of psychological phenomenon?
Because we are singularities growing in size.
Please join both political parties.
There are more than two political parties, ill fuck em all up!
Meanwhile, Threads is stronger than ever. Try Threads today!
Here I was thinking we didn’t need awards and the like, but minds change
I think awards would be fun. They wouldn’t have to cost anything either
Might be fun if everyone got like 1 gold every couple weeks to give out. That way they’d still sorta be meaningful
Or for example, you get a special award for 100 comments to give away.
I love this idea, this would drive up engagement from power users!
It would also drive up meaningless and irrelevant comments.
This
Concur. I would tie “awards awardable” to participation. 1 award per 10 posts or 100 comments. Given the federated nature of Lemmy it would probably have to be tabulated per instance, but that’s okay since that would tie awards awardable to the communities in which one most often participates.
I’m totally down for free awards.
my engineer brain immediately went to how crazy the desync would be lmao (upvotes, comments, and subscriber count already out of sync sometimes)
I would tie “awards awardable” to participation. 1 award per 10 posts or 100 comments. Given the federated nature of Lemmy it would probably have to be tabulated per instance, but that’s okay since that would tie awards awardable to the communities in which one most often participates.
lol
Ah well…
Se you guys on…
on…
uhh, Lemmy?
As an outsider, please take these helpful suggestions:
The logging-in process is messed up. For the longest time I couldn’t log into any of the mobile apps (even though on the desktop it worked fine). The error messages were mostly not helpful.
Even now, I still get error messages that ask me to pick a language for some reason. This is after I’ve already typed up a comment and I am trying to post it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t, but you could see how it would be a PITA when on mobile and all you wanted to do was write a short response.
Still no real idea what “instances” are and no idea if I am missing out on entire subs because I am on .world. No clue. Do people on .world only see this? 🤷
The layout on the website is barely passable. The link to go see a comment that was posted for you is just in an awkward location. I’m almost never sure what sub a post is coming from because the name of the person, the language it is in, and some other stuff is all fairly indistinguishable. Like seriously, there has to be someone on the Lemmy team that has some kind of graphic design background who could pipe in and spice up the UI a little.
There are random hangouts for seemingly no reason. Is it because of how much the Lemmy population has exploded over the last few weeks or problems with a link or what? Some feedback would be super helpful.
Why so many subs (are they called subs here?) with zero content. Not even like old content… literally go there and nothing is posted. At all. That is not conducive to growing a sub. If there are squatters who came here and loaded up on a bunch of sub names just to say they have them, and are not doing anything with those subs, then take the name back. No one is going to post a comment to a sub with zero threads. This is only hurting the community.
Well, I deleted my account, so there is no going back to reddit. Also discussions here seem better for me for some reason.
Less people = less assholes
Proportionally, there’s still as many.
Less assholes = less shit.
less shit = need fiber
need fiber = something no vegan has ever said
*fewer
R.I.P Lemmy, probably my fault 😢
Chill man. Even my activity is dropping now, but that’s just me thinking that Lemmy will be self-sufficient while I read my books. It’s true that Lemmy is not as addicting as reddit, but that’s for the best. I’ve actually gotten into new hobbies whose communities I might eventually join here.
Don’t worry, I’m here to stay _
Oh great, you’re here.
You know this Turtle?
Everyone knows the turtle, and now you do too.
Can I know the turtle too?
Bruhhh I thought you were someone else. Welcome aboard
Nooo my investments!!!
how will i financially recover
