• Striker@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2534·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Aer@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1532·
      1 year ago

      Natural, healthy, positive growth! Not growth for growths sake

    • Metallibus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • greendakota99@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I’m interested in seeing how well these great open source apps for Lemmy scale as the user base and post/comment data grows.

      • lightsecond@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            8 months ago

            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.

            • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              8 months ago

              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.

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Silkscreen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • HereticHydra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    That is probably my fault, I’m cursed and the moment I ever join any organization or community, something invariably always happens.

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      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?

      ‘Communities’ are akin to subreddits. ‘Instances’ are akin to reddit allowing other people to spin up their own version of reddit with their own ruleset, but still under the reddit umbrella; with other reddit-users being able to access other reddits. But, those ‘other reddits’ might decide hey we don’t like clowns so we are blocking clown reddit; clown reddit can no longer access the other reddits, without directly registering on them.

      If you want to expand your lemmy experience, when you fire up lemmy.world, there is a setting at the top which defaults to subscribed (iirc), change this to ‘All’ and it will show posts from all other instances that aren’t defederated.

    • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I use wefwef which is now voyager never had this issue.

      Never actually chosen a language.

      Many of the subs are empty because they were either created by squatters wanting to be uber mods of many subs or by the current reddit mods in case they wish to migrate in the future.

      Website I can’t speak to as I use the app which I’ve had no issues with and is updated daily.

      I’m also kinda lost on instance but I’m in lemmy.world and I seem to have all the important subs/whatever I want.

    • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The language thing is annoying as hell on mobile. Connect doesn’t allow me to select a language - or at least I can’t find the button. I’d say approx 20% of posts get denied because “wrong language”. I guess it’s autodetecting and fails at that?

    • Rick@thesimplecorner.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Admittedly the language thing is the most confusing thing for new users. Just leave it at undetermined.

      • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        But there is no place to change it. And when you are trying to post, you’re not sure what to do. If you cancel, you lose what you wrote (obviously can save to clipboard), but even then in the app, I haven’t seen a place to change the language even if I wanted to. It’s one of those quirks that can turn lots of people off and want to go back to Reddit.

        • Rick@thesimplecorner.orgEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s in your settings. If you’re using an app that may be the problem. For sure, the first day or two I was confused by it. I have mine set to undetermined & English. The list is kind of odd how to select them. It’s been set it and forget it. Definitely a barrier to entry because it doesn’t really have an obvious purpose when onboarding.

  • Dazed_Confused@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    Well, I deleted my account, so there is no going back to reddit. Also discussions here seem better for me for some reason.

  • XiELEd@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    331·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • 0235@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Ah I see you work in my work places wage and bonus calculation department.

    • Zithero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      151·
      1 year ago

      “We had a 2% reduction in profits this year guys, 😭”

      “The company lost money?”

      “What? Oh no! But we made 3 bn in profits last year and we only made 2.8bn this year… So to make up for the shortfall, we’ll be reducing 401k contributions.”

      “…didn’t the CEO get a 200million bonus-”

      “WE ALL NEED TO MAKE SACRIFICES!”

    • Aldrond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Every capitalist: You did great, and we know all the prior meetings talked about record profits, but we just can’t afford to give you a bonus. Soooorryyyyyyyyy.