Yeah the new user Lemmy experience is brutal. Splitting communities across 6 different instances that post 2-3 times a week is disheartening. Even if there was a huge influx of users smaller instances/communities would be unable to host all that activity.
Even if lemmy hits critical mass, it will still be a tiny minority of users who post. IIRC, even on reddit, only like 1% (or less) of the userbase actually post content, and the majority of those are prolific posters (not the regular type of user who just posts sometimes). Everyone else just comments or lurks. It would be interesting to see how that works out with multiple, decentralized communities.
Yeah the new user Lemmy experience is brutal. Splitting communities across 6 different instances that post 2-3 times a week is disheartening. Even if there was a huge influx of users smaller instances/communities would be unable to host all that activity.
Even if lemmy hits critical mass, it will still be a tiny minority of users who post. IIRC, even on reddit, only like 1% (or less) of the userbase actually post content, and the majority of those are prolific posters (not the regular type of user who just posts sometimes). Everyone else just comments or lurks. It would be interesting to see how that works out with multiple, decentralized communities.