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  • lohrun ( lohrun@fediverse.boo ) English
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    3 years ago

    Should be interesting to see how the fediverse in general handles more traffic, as we’ve seen with kbin and lemmy over the last month or so there are certainly some growing pains

    at least we are making the most of our new space here, we all seem to be building something fun here ghost

  • Fizz ( Fizz@lemmy.nz ) BannedBannedEnglish
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    3 years ago

    I think having a link aggregator is going to be so great for the fediverse. It allows us to gather content from all over the internet and bring to to the often secluded fediverse.

    It also means we can post links to fediverse discussions and draw people in.

    • maegul (he/they) ( maegul@lemmy.ml ) 
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      3 years ago

      The dip is attributable to kbin which has some weirdness around active user counts, largely because they don’t keep track of them, so I’m not surprised that their numbers might vary somewhat over time.

      Otherwise, yea, it’d be accurate to say that the migration wave has come to an end. Mastodon went through multiple waves over the years so we’ll see what happens from here. I for one am rather happy with how lemmy (and kbin) have turned out and am not desperate that a hole bunch more people come over.

      My biggest concern isn’t that there isn’t more cross talk between lemmy and mastodon, and that’s because the fediverse is yet to actually do a good job of making the boundaries between platforms thinner. There are many conversations going on in parallel that would be happy to connect but can’t because the fediverse hasn’t worked out a way to make that work well (yet).

        • maegul (he/they) ( maegul@lemmy.ml ) English
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          3 years ago

          Lemmy has no way to follow a person, so it’s impossible. Not sure where such thing sits on a roadmap or whatever, but I get the impression it isn’t a priority, at all maybe.

          Lemmy does federate decently with mastodon though, as you point out, so consuming lemmy content from mastodon can work, but isn’t great. Following a community for instance provides all posts and comments, which quickly becomes a firehose. I imagine most don’t do that for long.

          Following lemmy accounts on the other hand, IME, works nicely, as only posts are federated over, which is a much more manageable feed. EDIT: Sorry, this was wrong, comments as well as posts from a specific user do get federated across.

          And replies all work well too, so once you’ve made contact with a thread on mastodon by replying, it will all behave naturally for the mastodon platform, which is quite nice to see actually.

          There’s also kbin, which tries to fuse the two platforms, but even there, you can’t look at a feed of just the people you follow.

    • worfamerryman ( worfamerryman@beehaw.org ) English
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      3 years ago

      That’s OK. Lemmy doesn’t need to be huge and we have had a lot of apps developed for it and there have been a lot of donations to help the platform grow. I think it is large enough now to survive and will slowly grow over time.

      Just wait for the next big Reddit mistake. People will come over to Lemmy again and it will be a better place than last time.

      • Nowyn ( Nowyn@sopuli.xyz ) English
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        3 years ago

        I think people are because of the latest trends in social media thinking that you need to be huge to be successful. While you do need a certain threshold of people, semi-anonymous social media really doesn’t need to be that big. Just big enough to sustain enough little bit niche communities. That doesn’t just need users it needs time. People have this habit of hoping someone else will do the heavy lifting. And while I am not able to mod because IRL, I am still looking into niche communities here to see if I can help in some way as contributor. Just need to get through my imposter syndrome in that I don’t really feel good enough for comment creator.