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.
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.
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.
Or that topic is covered in general.
Yes, Reddit feels more like information overload platform to me, even ur limit it with subscribe page only.
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.
This is true, but there are good reasons it’s shaking out this way:
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Lemmy.world has had some of the most open signups compared to other major instances
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Discovery of communities across instances is a little harder, specifically natural discovery instead of directly searching
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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.
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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
That’ll all even out much in the same way the users evened out.
The loudest band so far seems to be the “memes” band.
Just like reddit in 2010.
Memes, racism and jailbait built reddit, but we have smartly avoided most of the latter two so far.
They aren’t good too
All of them very low effort and unfunny
Beans.
Laugh.
Fuckin hate memes.
Too many god damned memes
They’re coarse and grainy and they get everywhere
You should try shorts. They’re comfy and easy to wear.
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.
Guess we’ll never know why Tara Reid did a reddit AMA in 2015 just to market “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” now.
Memory unlocked. I saw that ama and also watched the movie. So the marketing worked on a tard like me.
Did the movie promotion campaign by a certain Academy Award nominated marketing genius before the actor’s strike also work on you then?
That is good since we are all beta testing the site and developing tools to manage everything before the real migration occurs.
Real migration? Who would be migrating? The 90% we left behind?
No, thank you.
The more the merrier.
You can move to smaller universes if that’s what you see fit.
No, in this case, the more is not the merrier. Otherwise you end up with the reddit shitshow.
You can choose to be on smaller instances that only federate with smaller instances.
Having more people gives us more options.
Fair enough.
Eventually more will come.
Enjoy the intimate atmosphere while it last. The hordes will find us eventually.
You can always have your own universe within the fediverse.
I once saw Yo-Yo Ma perform at a Borders book store in Boston.
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…
I will imagine Imagine Dragons.
Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something…
But they’re not Lemmy. :-\
allow me to introduce you to https://lemmy.world/c/tonightsdinner it’s pretty much that except playing in the empty back room of the library - cooks come and post please
I don’t cook but I’ll support your cause.
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.
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hey its like our own little MTV Unplugged session :D
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.
You’re talking about Kate Bush, right?
No, rock band Bush.
Wow, what an amazing privilege.
I’m just over here waiting on more Braves fans to show up from /r/Braves. That’s where I was the most active.
Sports will likely be the slowest migration.
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.
grunt, grunt, grunt!
Find me in Man Cave where game on and beer ice cold. If not football in USA motherland it pussy sport for girls.
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.
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.
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.
Thankfully there’s only one for the Braves. It’s just not real active yet.
GDT?
Game day thread, a live chat during games
Good dam times ? (Idk)
Build the community and they will come.
It exists already, I’m just waiting on people to show up.
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They’re just doing their part for decentralized social media.
If their fans love them enough, they’ll make an account.
True, but since it’s about the Fediverse and Lemmy, this was a better fit.
For sure! Just sharing a community you can cross-post to, or inspire others to subscribe to if they like this type of post.
