Yes. We don’t need millions of users to be successful. We come on here for a reason, we enjoy it. And to me that’s all that’s needed for success.
I still wouldn’t mind 100k monthly active users, or even 75k.
That should mean one additional active poster on all the community where I’m alone, and that would be cool
Yup!
I really dislike the notion that every website needs to aim to gather everyone on the internet to it - one platform to rule them all.
Can’t we just have lots of smaller sites that have their own communities, cultures, and histories?
Some people made reddit their identity and anything that threatens it scares them.
What’s sad is there’s people here that still make reddit their identity.
It is usually pretty clear when someone is a recent “refugee”, expecting everyone else to hate Reddit as much as they do, like there’s a feud between Reddit and Lemmy. When it seems to me that most folks around here are just content to be our own little space
why would they throw all those beans away?!
In exchange for jeans (on Taylor Swift’s jet?) of course:-)
The main problem with Lemmy, is I see the same 20-50 posts for 3-4 days until there is a new front page…
I fucking hate Reddit, but the front-page is always fresh, so I always end up going back…
I find there is new content but so often a lot of it is US politics based. Some other stuff does exist but its hard to filter out the stuff I don’t care about at times.
Sure I can subscribe to other communities, but finding them can be difficult and searching for all is swamped by Trump and Musk.
It helps if you block all those communities you don’t care about. Or even block some instances.
Sometimes you don’t want to completely block them though, just see something else right now
The problem with Lemmy is that the demographic that uses it is too specific: nerdy, atheist, college educated (usually in computers) Gen X and early Millennial left-wing political hobbyists.
Like, there’s a reason the one of the only specific media franchises that can sustain an active community here is Star Trek.
I have both Lemmy and reddit.
The front page on Lemmy changes every week.
On reddit it changes daily.
The only new posts I see best the end of the day on Lemmy are all in German.
Don’t get me wrong, Lemmy is great, but it’s got a LONG way to crawl to get to reddit’s level of success.
I ditched Reddit 2 years ago and haven’t been back. This is a self-solving problem: as more people use and contribute, there will be more content and engagement.
But as a heavy user of Lemmy (and previously of Reddit), there’s things you can do. Chief among them is switching from the “Active” list to “Hot” when you want to see new stuff. I pretty much never run out of content, and that’s without even dipping into “New”…
I only have Lemmy but I consume way less social media since that’s all I have… Which is a good thing.
I don’t mind the fact that Lemmy changes at a slower pace. Gives me less to scroll through
Different strokes for different folks, as they say. That’s precisely one of the things that I value most in social media— exposure to people and ideas outside of my day-to-day experience. I don’t understand the femcel memes, or c/ich_iel, for example, but that’s what makes them so fascinating. I was thinking of leaving Reddit even before the API fiasco, because the feed changed daily while not changing at all. I didn’t find it valuable to see the same breaking news story posted to 15 different subreddits, nor the same “Men of Reddit: Do you pee through the underwear flap, or over the waistband?” question posted (literally! I watched and counted one day!) every 5 minutes. I didn’t replace Reddit with Lemmy, I just stopped using the former when Apollo stopped working. Lemmy drew me in over the course of a couple of months. It’s quiet, but you can have conversations instead of shouting into the void.
For me, Lemmy is far more successful.
Is it still Lemmy, or is PieFed close to overtaking?
most posts on the piefed feed are posted by lemmings so nahh
but we can be successful collectively ;)
but we can be successful collectively ;)
that’s the spirit!
That’s the beauty of it - it doesn’t matter, since it’s all the Threadiverse. Lemmy, Piefed, mbin, whatever else may come along. As long as they all use ActivityPub, they’re all interoperable, and people can choose whichever one suits them best. Afaik, though, Lemmy is still far and away the most popular right now
Either way, it is successful.
…same-same
And here’s a problem. Even I, pretty tech savvy user, can’t keep up with all this. I look away for a moment, and you’all on a new meta already, all the old servers are bad now and all the cool kids on a new system already. I can’t imagine anyone with an advanced grass-touching ability being able to keep up with all this shit.
In theory it really shouldn’t matter. You choose your instance, and it’s up to the instance admins to make decisions about backend software choices. It’s possible that we’ll get to a place there it’s possible for admins to migrate a server from Lemmy to Piefed or back again without loss of content, in which case all the user would see about it would be a change of default interface.
I’m on Feddit.uk, which has several different web interfaces to choose from, and I mostly browse using a mobile app (Boost). It really makes basically no difference to me whether it’s running Lemmy or Piefed.
It shouldn’t, and yet. When I joined, I spent non zero amount of time choosing an instance. Then one of the instances I chose shut sown. The second one defederated from a bunch of others and now I couldn’t read any comments because if the thread contains a comment from defederated instance the whole thread disappears. Then I moved to .world and then discovered the reason all those instances got defederated so I switched again, and now one of my instances is very slow because money run out, and now there is a new kid on the block so inevitably I will have to move again at some point.
Don’t get me wrong, I still believe in all this Fediverse thing, but boy does it make it hard to do sometimes
Has anyone come up with a name for the corner of the Fediverse that includes Lemmy, mbin, and PieFed?
Yes, “threadiverse”
Collectively, they’re part of the Threadiverse, which is a subset of the Fediverse that focuses on threaded content. Technically, though, Mbin is not strictly a part of the Threadiverse, as it also allows microblogging.
The c’s? (for the /c/ links for the communities here, and it sounds like “the seas”)
Well, after 2034 Lemmy can actually be sucessful
Is 2034 the year of Lemmy?
Lemmy will become a superpower by 2034
i dont quite know what it means, but lemm.ee is shutting down… so… successful ?
It’s shutting down, but the fediverse is healing around it. Piefed.social has seen a huge influx, and people are moving accounts slowly but surely.
Lemm.ee shutting down isn’t ideal from a service stand point, but it is showing how robust the fediverse is. It’s acting like the internet used to, routing around damage to continue to work. That’s amazing, and hopeful.
My Lemmy experience has been better than Reddit ever was, but that honestly sounds like cope. Vast swaths of people couldn’t even be bothered to figure out an instance to pick, now the few that bothered are having to migrate. I think this will be a big net loss for Lemmy.
I’d even say that this illustrates the success even more…
- lemm.ee shuts down, iirc, because it took too much time and effort to run the instance. Not really a sign of inactivity.
- the platform keeps going! The whole idea of a federated network works, as a single instance going down doesn’t impact other ones. As it happened before, see e.g. feddit.de.
So Lemmy as a whole is alive and healthy - and successful.
Yes, in many ways lemm.ee shutting down is a great example of the intention of a federated network at work, but it is also somewhat of a cautionary tale when it comes to centralisation. Ideally the load would be spread as such that any single instance shutting down would be reasonably painless to adjust for. There were already too many users and communities on .ee, really. Imagine what a disaster .world shutting down would be in the current state of things.
Honestly I wonder, hypothetically, if .world shutting down right now would actually be better for the fediverse.
If it continues to be seen as the “default instance” it just becomes a bigger point of failure. And arguably more pernicious, becomes the cultural equivalent of a reddit.
Then I start to think crazy thoughts like what if private capital took an interest in a giant instance. Idk, I’m being way too paranoid I know I know
I think it is typical human behavior to congregate to large groups.
Especially to the 2 big groups in the area.
It’s alright https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45977837
I mean while yes it’s a tragedy. People have just moved to the other instances such as Piefed.social and Lemmy.zip.
Is it really though?
