The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.

  • @[email protected]
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    601 year ago

    I’m kind of enjoying the smaller community size. Unlike reddit where I’d come across a post that I have something interesting to say about and see there are already 27,481 comments.

    • @ItsMeSpez
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      It certainly has it’s ups and downs. It’s nice having smaller communities as it really helps having more congenial conversations, but I do miss the larger user base sometimes, since it ensures more coverage of a given topic.

      • Blastoid5000
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        91 year ago

        Or that topic is covered in general.

    • @kanzalibrary
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      21 year ago

      Yes, Reddit feels more like information overload platform to me, even ur limit it with subscribe page only.

  • @[email protected]
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    531 year ago

    Only thing that bothers me is that most of the biggest communities are @ lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, so it still feels kind of centralized.

    Obviously it’s not, but I wonder if too much “power” in one instance will have some negative consequences in future. For example one of them going black results in losing half of lemmy content and orphaned users probably won’t spread to smaller instances but will join next biggest.

    • TheSpookiestUser
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      This is true, but there are good reasons it’s shaking out this way:

      • Lemmy.world has had some of the most open signups compared to other major instances

      • Discovery of communities across instances is a little harder, specifically natural discovery instead of directly searching

      • It is easier to just tell incoming users to sign on to the instance your community is hosted on because you know it’s safe and they won’t ever be locked out by defederation

      I think the rise of more topic-specfiic instances like ttrpg.network will help spread the load out.

          • @orphiebaby
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            201 year ago

            Never underestimate the importance of convenience and the lack of work most people will do in most circumstances— and I’m not even blaming those people. A third-party tool will never catch on the way a built-in, organic convenience will.

            • @[email protected]
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              51 year ago

              It’s not even that I won’t do the work, I will. It’s just a shitty experience is all.

              • @orphiebaby
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                61 year ago

                I don’t mean you specifically, friend. I’m just talking about the general (but not absolute, obviously) nature of people. But yee.

                • @[email protected]
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                  41 year ago

                  My bad if I made you think I took it as something negative, I just meant my comment to reinforce what you’re saying. Because you’re right, we’ll do it, normies won’t.

            • BNE
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              31 year ago

              Hmm, would be great if there was a like a nice, accessible list of these things for new users - tools and the like - and a link to that list was available on the Sign-up screen, right across Lemmy…

              Would certainly go some way to reducing the friction between starting and knowing what you’re doing.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            Right now the process for me finding a new community is find the community, go to the search page in my browser, type in the community, search for it, wait for it to show up, and sub to it, restart my app. That sucks.

            Everyone here by now knows how to find a community. Getting to that community fucking sucks.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              You left out the 20% or so chance the subscribe button just doesn’t work. Also the 30% chance you find a community with 1 active user and less than 5 posts total, none of which point to a functioning community with a slightly different name.

          • tool
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            31 year ago

            just raise awareness about tools like this one https://lemmyverse.net/

            I also think that something like LCS or Lemmony should be recommended and/or included in the default Lemmy docker compose file.

            That way, when new Lemmy servers get spun up, they will automatically get seeded with content and communities from other existing Lemmy servers.

    • Bilbo Baggins
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      271 year ago

      This is a concern, but luckily this isn’t required. I set up hobbit.world to host my Tolkien related communities. It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name to host a tiny instance like this. I don’t need to depend on anyone but my hosting provider.

      To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.

      But the point is that for big communities that people put a lot of time into, there should be an instance for each one owned by one of the mods.

      • Terrasque
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        131 year ago

        To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.

        Maybe look into borg and https://www.borgbase.com/ - they give 10gb free. I sat it up for some important data I would want to keep if utter disaster struck yesterday, and was pretty straight forward.

        You could also set up a more ghetto time machine like rsync with https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup if you have a machine on your network with ssh access from outside.

      • tool
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        11 year ago

        It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name

        My man, you are getting absolutely bent over a barrel by your registrar. You could get that domain significantly cheaper at a place like Porkbun or Namecheap.

        • Bilbo Baggins
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          21 year ago

          I actually use namecheap. It’s only a few bucks first year, but .world domains cost $31.98 per year after that. So not $35 like I remembered, but pretty close. Or maybe that is the price with tax.

          However, if I wanted a .nl domain, it’s only $7.98 per year. Looking at other domains, it’s crazy, but .inc is $2198 per year.

          • tool
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            Gotcha. I’m actually in the process of moving away from Namecheap because of an experience I just had with them. I tried to register a domain about a month ago (the domain my Lemmy instance is on) and it stopped the registration process immediately after I hit the Pay/Checkout/whatever button and told me to contact their support team to register it.

            The error message said it was because the domain name was too similar to something that already existed, and that the support team would have to decide whether I’d be allowed to register it or not. So I went to another registrar and registered it with no issue. I really didn’t like that, and it’s enough to make them lose me as a decade+ long customer. I already use Route53 for DNS for all my domains, so it’s not like I was using them for anything else other than a registrar, so untangling that shouldn’t be too much of a pain.

      • @Historical_General
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        Is it open like an instance or is it for hosting communities only?

        • Bilbo Baggins
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          If you’re asking what the $6 gets, I’m talking about a single shard which allows me to host a Linux instance that runs a Lemmy instance. I wasn’t sure if that was sufficient, but honestly, the performance via Jerboa is better than when I was using an account on lemmy.world. It has only been a week, so don’t know how much disk will get used up over time. Long term I might need to bump things up for storage.

          • @Historical_General
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            Oh, I meant would people be able to make accounts on it? Or is it purely for hosting communities?

            • Bilbo Baggins
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              31 year ago

              At the moment, just communities. I thought about letting people make accounts, and might still do it, but I don’t want the responsibility until I’m sure the system is reliable without much extra work. It seems like the lemmy.world people are running into a lot of problems.

    • KNova
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      111 year ago

      I was against it at first, but there’s probably a lot of value in communities spinning up their own domains and hosting their own focused communities. Instead of a central Lemmy.world which hosts many different communities, we should have lemmyPics.com and lemmyMusic.com and MaleFashionAdvice.com that all run Lemmy software, and then people can subscribe in from remote instances easily.

      There’s still a place for general instances in this model too, but I think these communities might get off the ground easier with a $12 domain name and cloud hosting services than trying to all be the next Reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        Unless there’s an easy way to migrate a community to another instance, half of those will just go dark in a year or two when the admin gets bored. It’s also going to make updates suck when a breaking change happens and you have a month of admins getting around to updating.

        • KNova
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          11 year ago

          Unfortunately, Reddit and Twitter going shitty this year just reminded me that the Internet on the whole is only 30-some years old and things are still fleeting. I think it’s unreasonable to expect any one center of discussion or any particular service to be around forever.

    • @TORFdot0
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      Lemmy.ml is hosted by the maintainers and Lemmy.world is the biggest instance (because they were one of the few that didn’t restrict sign ups when Reddit API went dark) so those users are going to have the most communities.

      Despite this I still am subbed to many communities on beehaw, Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml and sh.it.just.works

      And I have some subbed communities on smaller instances.

      But I will say that I’m thinking of starting a new community but I’ll probably do it on Lemmy.world as they have the funds and manpower to guarantee uptime

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      But all the other federated instances will have an duplicate of certain posts/comments, right?

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Maybe some content in cache. Not photos for sure. I’m not sure how exactly will this look like, but we can observe vlemmy.net as example, as it seems to be permanently down.

    • Nix
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      21 year ago

      Isnt text content stored by servers that are federated with those big instances so if they go down the content is still accessible?

  • Margot Robbie
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    401 year ago

    Or like if an A-list Hollywood actress suddenly started marketing her new summer blockbuster on a small forum of mostly tech workers.

    Sure makes you think.

    • Margot Robbie
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      111 year ago

      Guess we’ll never know why Tara Reid did a reddit AMA in 2015 just to market “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” now.

      • @Dinodicchellathicc
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        Memory unlocked. I saw that ama and also watched the movie. So the marketing worked on a tard like me.

        • Margot Robbie
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          51 year ago

          Did the movie promotion campaign by a certain Academy Award nominated marketing genius before the actor’s strike also work on you then?

  • @YoBuckStopsHere
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    331 year ago

    That is good since we are all beta testing the site and developing tools to manage everything before the real migration occurs.

    • El Barto
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      151 year ago

      Real migration? Who would be migrating? The 90% we left behind?

      No, thank you.

          • Nix
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            151 year ago

            The more the merrier. I want the doctors from askdocs and the historians and the eli5 people and the lawyers from legaladvice etc etc to be here too. Currently it’s mainly us tech nerds who understand how the fediverse works. Which is nice at times but having a wide range of nerds from many fields would be great

            • El Barto
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              11 year ago

              Ah, when you put it this way, it makes sense.

              I just don’t wante the usual pokemon or sponge bob memes flooding the fediverse.

      • @dudebro
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        91 year ago

        The more the merrier.

        You can move to smaller universes if that’s what you see fit.

        • El Barto
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          01 year ago

          No, in this case, the more is not the merrier. Otherwise you end up with the reddit shitshow.

          • @dudebro
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            11 year ago

            You can choose to be on smaller instances that only federate with smaller instances.

            Having more people gives us more options.

  • kersploosh
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    301 year ago

    Enjoy the intimate atmosphere while it last. The hordes will find us eventually.

    • @dudebro
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      151 year ago

      You can always have your own universe within the fediverse.

  • @LittleBoBanny
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    211 year ago

    I once saw Yo-Yo Ma perform at a Borders book store in Boston.

  • @netvor
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    IDK but if, say, Motörhead came to a 50 seat library in some small town it would be kinda cute and would make the library famous, and it would make all other libraries envy them in a good way.

    Edit: just learned that Lemmy died 8 years ago. Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something…

    • FavrionOP
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      I will imagine Imagine Dragons.

    • @atx_aquarian
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      Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something…

      But they’re not Lemmy. :-\

  • @Tangent5280
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    Small communities and slow content feeds are fine for me I think. Either way I’m glad I’m here to witness this liminal period.

  • @[email protected]
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    This could be a concern but i think it will even out in the end. Many people will naturally gravitate to am instance that suites them. I created unilem.org as an instance aimed at not defederating. Some will like that and join others will not and find a different place that suits them. Its the beauty of the fediverse. You can choose your home or even host your own.

    • El Barto
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      How’s not defederating going so far?

    • @dudebro
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      Thank you for sharing this.

      I’ve been looking for an instance that protects free speech.

      Edit: It would be nice if we could sign up without giving a rationale.

      • @[email protected]
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        The explanation box is more just to prevent bots, once im confident that the captcha is working as intended I’ll likely remove it

  • @[email protected]
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    111 year ago

    I’m just over here waiting on more Braves fans to show up from /r/Braves. That’s where I was the most active.

      • FavrionOP
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        Sports fans be like: If no NFL, Doritos, Mountain Dew, or gamble, me no want. Me sit watch game and eat Lay chip on couch. Reddit for smart people like me. Other sites no have football.

          • FavrionOP
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            Find me in Man Cave where game on and beer ice cold. If not football in USA motherland it pussy sport for girls.

    • @FordBeeblebrox
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      The trouble is the fediverse means there can be multiple. I’m subscribed to two Red Sox groups but there’s only a couple dozen people in each one so there’s no real place for GDTs yet.

      • @docmox
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        As more people join one will get selected. There was r/cars and r/autos for a long time. R/cars won out in the end.

        • @orphiebaby
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          An “r/autos” was always doomed to lose to an “r/cars”. It’s just how English works and what people end up searching for.

    • FavrionOP
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      21 year ago

      Build the community and they will come.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    And the old memes trend is that time the band did a bunch of coffee shop shows playing nothing but ukuleles.

  • @ccunix
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    When Bush were at the height of their success, I saw them in a little 300 person room. It was brilliant and we should appreciate Lemmy while it is in that state.