• Xilly@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You are correct and Lemmy.World and others will experience growing pains and will have their own share of issues but the positive of this is that more users means more content.

    • Teeks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      You are correct, but it at least shows that we are attracting more users (albeit, that doesn’t mean quality).

      I believe its a positive thing though, as it shows that the “normies” are seriously considering alternatives; outside of us niche, nerds here for the tech and the anti-corpo mindset.

      • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Well said. A month ago, I couldn’t even imagine leaving reddit because there was hardly a viable alternative.

      • go_spurs_go@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Just showed up here. We’ll see how long I stay, but hoping this will be my social media fix each morning. If there are enough folks who feel the same, it will be.

        • XYZinferno@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’ve been using it for about a week now, and it already is.

          Of course, there’s a handful of subreddits that I miss and feel the urge to go back to every now and then, but I realize that there is enough content on Lemmy to satisfy me during my coffee breaks. And it’s enough to keep me from going back.

      • Thesongthatneverends@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I am decidedly not a niche nerd here for tech reasons. I just got pretty fed up with Reddit and it’s ridiculousness. I’m a 40 year old mom just here to cruise around the internet and find interesting things. So you are correct - the “normies” are starting to look for alternatives!

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    I joined world because it was the little one, with like 100 active users according to the stats on the signup page. Hmph.

    • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I joined lemmy.world on June 7th before it started to blow up. Crazy how much it has changed in 19 days.

      • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        The idea was to pick a smaller one to spread the load around and stop any one instance (at the time it looked like probably Beehaw or .ml) getting so big it became a “default” and thus accidentally centralising things and defeating the whole purpose of being here.

        I guess a lot of people had the same idea at roughly the same time as me though lol, and now we’re stuck with some serious unforseen federation issues due to sheer size. Therewasanattempt.

        • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I think I read about future plans for being able to move an account to a different instance? I don’t know if that’s a possibility but I would be willing to move to keep things spread out, or create a new account if it was necessary. I know a lot of people wouldn’t want that hassle but I’m glad to have a forum alternative to reddit and probably enough people feel that way to help make this work well into the future.

  • SolDaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Hello All, First time poster here. I would just like to say that i tried signing up for beehaw.org but they have some kind of purity test that reminds me of Reddit. Don’t ever sign up for beehaw, that is going to be one hell of a drama filled instance.

  • egeres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s awesome to see the growth, but as a small question, why don’t all the instances upgrade to version 0.18? Maybe that version isn’t stable enough?

    • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      0.18 removed checks and balances to limit bot signups. lemmy.world won’t upgrade until this is in place.

      • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        1 year ago

        Yep, so now I need to put up with Jerboa whining at me every time I log in. Just the latest in what’s likely to be a long line of teething problems. It’s really unfortunate that the same guy is one of the primary devs of both the Lemmy server and the android client, as it allows him to use one to put pressure on the other. He could E.G. make it so Jerboa refuses to connect to any instance that refuses to update rather than just displaying an annoying dialog like it currently does.

      • TheCookieButter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I wrote 2 short paragraphs for the Beehaw entry and a week later was denied. By that point I was already on Lemmy.World.

        I really don’t know what else they wanted me to say to be honest. I’d be interested in seeing some accepted applications but seems excessive.

          • Beliriel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Same for me. The only thing beehaw now has that interests me is the technology community, which seems fairly active. Other than that it died for me there. For what? Because they couldn’t deal with a few trolls? And they want their own walled garden for site applications?

      • JujuT@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Exactly! Or a waitlist like lemmy.ml. There’s probably going to be some issues with so many people in this instance, but it’s better than an echo chamber.

        • SolDaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Bitter about what? Beehaw is literally running a purity test in order to let you sign up. You sound much more bitter for me telling the truth than i am.

    • brezhnervous@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      However is been just “spinning” on yrying to sign up for over a week for me…so I ended up going with lemm.ee instead

  • Machefi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This dominance worries me a little. Luckily the communities are spread across instances fairly well

    • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Taking lessons from mastodon, I think server costs can really affect an instance’s decision of how many users and how fast to register them. Can’t blame them. lemmy.world just happens to have a pro admin who also runs mastodon.world.

      • OctoFloofy@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        oh yeah i remember mastodon.world, was my first ever instance i was on until i began to host my own instance.

    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      This dominance worries me a little.

      I don’t think there’s much to worry about. Having large general instances is perfectly healthy and good for the Fediverse as that’s where people new to the Fediverse will land.

      I predict that large niche instances will start popping up, one example already being programming.dev, and that’s simply because there are domains where you might need extra customization.

      For example, one can imagine a mathematics & physics oriented instance where LaTeX is available, or a chess-only instance where you’d have things like chessboard.js to allow members to post chess diagrams etc… Basically a return to what we had with old-school forums except this time the instances would be federated.

      • DrGiltspur@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        For example, one can imagine a mathematics & physics oriented instance where LaTeX is available, or a chess-only instance where you’d have things like chessboard.js to allow members to post chess diagrams etc…

        An interesting idea. But the problem with that is that the custom rendered content would not federate properly, so such communities would only really be usable to those on that instance, which destroys the whole point of being federated in the first place. Unless they were able to implement some sort of ‘graceful degradation’ so the content was enhanced on the main instance, but still serviceable on other instances.

        • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Good point. I think it could still work well if the processing is done on the server, ie the specialized Lemmy instance processes the LaTeX equation and replaces it with a generated PNG.

      • DoucheAsaurus@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        Just from my own subscriptions there’s also startrek.website and dormi.zone (which is for the game Warframe). I think having an instance function like that is pretty awesome, if I want Star Trek or Warframe related content I know exactly where to go now.

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Thwe number #1 uswer of Lemm Worlkd is horses who are forcesd to horse by peple who rider horses in HoirseWOrld.,HELOM

  • Negative_Pair_5694@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Also lemmy.world is extremely slow in pushing out messages to other instances, if at all. So leading the pack is not necessarily the best thing until you figure out scaling.

    • Solo@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      The server has already been upgraded 3 times. I’m sure they’ll upgrade again if they’re seeing issues. They might not know if it’s an external issue.

      • RQG@lemmy.world
        01·
        1 year ago

        No I think that is just you telling lemmy.world the message which sometimes can get stuck. Only after the message was sent will other instances sync with lemmy.world if they are federated.

    • UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I’ve been missing a ton of comment replies from lemmy.world and it’s frustrating. I am wondering if it’s because they’re still on 0.17.4 instead of 0.18.

      • NebLem@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah I think that’s the main issue. Hopefully 18.1 can be released soon so they can upgrade too.

    • Rogue_General@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      What counts as an active user? Voting? Commenting? Posting?

      Submitting a comment or post. AFAIK upvoting/downvoting doesn’t count, at least for Lemmy’s numbers.

      Kbin is looser with the definition, I think they even count accounts that simply vote among active users.