• StrikerMEnglish
    2714·
    2 years ago

    I am fine with the place settling for a bit. It would suck if this place was as big as other sites are overnight. I want to watch this place grow over time

    • AerMEnglish
      1632·
      2 years ago

      Natural, healthy, positive growth! Not growth for growths sake

    • MetallibusEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, my main problem so far has been finding communities actually worth following/joining/contributing to.

      If suddenly tons of average people join, they won’t really find communities, they’ll deem that their analysis of Lemmy, and leave with tiny chances of a second chance. It’ll just boom and bust in it’s current state. Most people aren’t interested in starting or growing a small community.

      Meanwhile, if we stay at this size for a while, communities may form/grow, and as people trickle in, they’ll grow bit by bit.

    • greendakota99English
      5·
      2 years ago

      I’m interested in seeing how well these great open source apps for Lemmy scale as the user base and post/comment data grows.

      • lightsecond@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        The apps are already amazing and will not suffer issues of scale themselves because they run on users’ devices. The scaling issues will be in Lemmy server code and ActivityPub in general.

        ActivityPub doesn’t seem very scalable IMHO. It works well if all instances are about the same size and communities are well-distributed. Right now a few servers like lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.ml are much larger than others. They host most of the popular communities as well. This creates an imbalance which ActivityPub doesn’t handle well.

        I think Lemmy instances should be topic based. But that’d be confusing for people coming from centralized social media who are only trying to find a reliable starting place. So I really hope we reach a point of maturity and mainstream-ness of Fediverse that people feel comfortable with smaller theme-based instances.

        • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          2 years ago

          My main gripe with ActivityPub is that the infrastructure basically replicates 1-to-1 across subscribed instances. It means that as lemmy grows, servers will require more and more storage to keep up. For now, it’s fine since we’re under a few TB of content on the platform.

          If lemmy were to be as popular as reddit, we’d reach the dozens if not hundreds of TB of storage required. Not everyone has the money to build such a homelab or rent data center servers of that caliber.

          ActivityPub in it’s current state is nothing but replicated centralization, not a full decentralized protocol. We’d probably need a different database system that handles cross region clustering and sharing to scale it up.

          • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            1 year ago

            If you don’t mirror everything locally, you can lose data when other instances go down. Decentralization just has high data costs, take a look at git or bitcoin. I just hope ActivityPup learned something from Diaspora, where small instances couldn’t handle the amount traffic comming from big instances.

            • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              1 year ago

              My point was that there is no need to replicate everything everywhere. If the data is replicated a cross 5 instances per region for instance, it’s enough for replication needs. If you self host lemmy and subscribes to large communities on your instance, you can quickly overload your server. We need activity pub to be more lightweight if we want smaller instances to thrive.

    • R0cket_M00seEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      As long as we have the population to stabilize the big communities and slowly fill out the niche ones as reddit drives ever downward. I think we will be ok.

    • Silkscreen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I hope that the lemmy devs take this time to look at how they’re distributing users. We need a better browser for people to find what instances to join. The next Reddit exodus is going to be massive and .ml and .world aren’t ready for it.

      The brain-drain has already happened on reddit and it’s only a matter of time before the good content and 3rd party development explodes here on Lemmy.

    • kratoz29English
      4·
      2 years ago

      You are not allowed to be busy, you need to shit post nonstop.

  • HereticHydraEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    That is probably my fault, I’m cursed and the moment I ever join any organization or community, something invariably always happens.

  • FacebookEnglish
    6012·
    2 years ago

    Meanwhile, Threads is stronger than ever. Try Threads today!

      • rockSlayerEnglish
        16·
        2 years ago

        I think awards would be fun. They wouldn’t have to cost anything either

        • mythosEnglish
          13·
          2 years ago

          Might be fun if everyone got like 1 gold every couple weeks to give out. That way they’d still sorta be meaningful

          • Blastoid5000English
            162·
            2 years ago

            Or for example, you get a special award for 100 comments to give away.

            • Uniquitous@lemmy.oneEnglish
              1·
              2 years ago

              Concur. I would tie “awards awardable” to participation. 1 award per 10 posts or 100 comments. Given the federated nature of Lemmy it would probably have to be tabulated per instance, but that’s okay since that would tie awards awardable to the communities in which one most often participates.

        • grisseeEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          my engineer brain immediately went to how crazy the desync would be lmao (upvotes, comments, and subscriber count already out of sync sometimes)

  • HazdazBannedEnglish
    412·
    2 years ago

    Removed by mod

  • ZcaTEnglish
    37·
    2 years ago

    R.I.P Lemmy, probably my fault 😢

  • Dazed_ConfusedEnglish
    37·
    2 years ago

    Well, I deleted my account, so there is no going back to reddit. Also discussions here seem better for me for some reason.

  • XiELEd@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    331·
    2 years ago

    Chill man. Even my activity is dropping now, but that’s just me thinking that Lemmy will be self-sufficient while I read my books. It’s true that Lemmy is not as addicting as reddit, but that’s for the best. I’ve actually gotten into new hobbies whose communities I might eventually join here.

  • 0235English
    30·
    2 years ago

    Ah I see you work in my work places wage and bonus calculation department.