• 1337@1337lemmy.com
    3·
    1 year ago

    Created my own instance to help out. Created a few communities, hopefully they’ll become searchable from the big instances soon.

    • Dame @lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Definitely not. Before people were migrating from Twitter only just to go back

      • Rhabuko@feddit.deOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Don’t know. The thing with Mastodon is that you wouldn’t find people to follow and it lacked features people wanted.

        Lemmy here is way more entertaining already. Of course a lot of people will just check it out and go back but I think enough will stick around. Like a small subreddit you enjoy and slowly grows.

          • Kichae@kbin.social
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            1 year ago

            I could never wrap my head around the discoverability and reach issues – I haven’t had any problems with either of those, and I’m running a solo server (though I’ve come to suspect that there was maybe a jargon and expectation barrier, and they just couldn’t overcome the different layout).

            What I can understand is running away from the somewhat, uh, hostile welcome many of them got. Instead of bringing people in and helping them acclimate, a bunch of folks just got up in new peoples’ faces and gave them no room to make faux pas.

            I don’t see that happening here. The crowd that’s showed up over the last week or so has been made up of core Reddit folks, and the atmosphere is very Reddit in nature.

            It’s just the volume of content that is missing, and that already feels like it’s inching toward critical mass and can become self-sustaining.

          • jmp242@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Honestly, I just don’t get twitter and never joined. I also don’t super get mastadon. I see people talking about having great conversations, but it seems like the WORST interface for that (fedilab on android anyway). It’s a good “rss aggregator” with comments, but the 500 character limit is still tiny for most comments I’d ever want to make, and the threading / comments are quite limited. At least on lemmy, if there’s a post people are replying to - you can see the replies, you’re not linked randomly half way through a thread, and you can type a longer comment. I just think I’m way more reddit acclimated, and actually I “grew up” with Slashdot so…

  • DrQuint@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 year ago

    It’ll be good practice for when a bunch of third party apps die and some post about “how to go about delete your stuff and registering on this list of alternatives in just a few easy steps” comes up.

    And by practice, I mean that the horse corpse is going to be fucking pulverized.

  • Evowind@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been part of Ruqqus & Imzy, I hope that this time it will be a success! (hopium overdose)

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      4·
      1 year ago

      Reddit chose a very bad time to mess up, right when we’re in the middle of coding some of our biggest performance improvements. They timed this perfectly to make things as stressful as possible for nutomic and I lol.

      • lightrush@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 year ago

        Depending on how bad the perf is, it may be worth it throwing the instance on a real big machine to take the load to buy time for the optimization work without turning many users away. Contributions should increase with the flood of users. If a big machine could mask the problems of course. Maybe they’re too bad to mask. You probably know.

      • Salamander@mander.xyz
        1·
        1 year ago

        Great work and good luck!!!

        I’ve been busy too recently and I just noticed yesterday the influx of new users… So I’ve updated and upgraded the server a bit. Hopefully I can keep my instance running smoothly and contribute a little bit that way!