Been posting on masto since lemmy.world keeps getting outages. New posts seem infrequent on the sorting algorithms. I’m sure once the hardware hiccups die down it will stabilize
Especially for decentralized services. Threads or the latest google service will get shut down if it doesn’t attract billions in like two years.
These open source projects are run and used by some people as passion projects so you will probably not find Lemmy completely empty, even if it would largely fail in a traditional sense.
We’re stubborn in a way. Where would I go instead… I was here when only like 50 people were active ^^
What do you miss? I use both, reddit obv has way more users so still some unique content. But I want Lemmy to improve so that’s where I am “investing” my efforts ☺️
Don’t you have an account on another instance? Lemmy.world was down a bit that one time. Lemmy.ca was down once briefly for me due to site maintenance.
I have a second account on lemdro.id. It’s smaller and mostly android focused but its my main account most days. If world is having issues I don’t even think about it I just switch over 😂
Between lemmy.world and sync having issues I almost went on reddit. Then I remembered this is the fediverse, jerboa and lemm.ee exist and I’m back and more active than ever.
I’m not sure why they’re not using elastic servers. Maybe because of the cost. Idk how Lemmy server dudes get their money, but it can be expensive running a server with 5-7 million visitors per month.
People are obsessing over numbers like bitcoiners do. Stop it.
Of course it’s going to die down after the novelty effect has passed. Do we aim for the “fediverse” to be as big (and as toxic) as the likes of 4chan, twitter or reddit? I don’t know about you, but I’m glad it’s not the same thing.
It’s a FOMO, bigger is better, kind of thing. I think some people came here looking for a replacement, which can’t happen, instead of looking for a community, which can.
It’s funny that you say that. Although it’s not I guess replacing Reddit in terms of scale, the browsing experience on Lemmy and that community feeling is actually an improvement for me.
So, I guess for me Lemmy is a more than adequate replacement. I don’t want all of Reddit here though, I think that would cause a whole lot more problems than it would solve.
For the last month and a half, I have not used reddit at all. Lemmy has most of the communities that I was a part of.
But I get that, some niche subreddits still don’t have communities here on lemmy. A few of my friends, stopped using lemmy because it didn’t have the subs they were active in.
Those of us still using Reddit should casually name-drop Lemmy to remind people they have an alternative. If you make a reddit post put a link to the Lemmy post too
I want my active Starfield, The Wire, and The West Wing communities, but not bad enough to use reddit’s app. If I could easily use it just as a website I probably would, but that experience sucks.
The novelty has worn off. Contributions are going to fall to the baseline for this platform. Question is, is the Lemmy space going to expand from that point?
I can use Lenny with Lenny sync on my phone without issue but when I try to use my browser on my laptop I can’t login. It’s the same instance, save credentials.
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