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

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.

Yea and a lot of that may be bot accounts that are getting banned/being shut off.

Yes. I do not want another Reddit.

I, for one, am not going anywhere. ✊🏻

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

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.

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.

Nice July comment. Here’s my July comment.

Ohai

me too

Another July comment

I see what you did there

Christmas in July, happy Christmas.

Roger, dude.

same, may as well make my first comment here

Same here

Me too, thanks.

Same

Hi

July?

This is a highly regarded comment.

💎🙌

I’m a woman and child

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

Yall got fish? All I got was beans.

🐬 SO SAD THAT IT HAS COME TO THIS 🐬

You should join as many terrorist organisations as you can

Why does this always happen to me too? Is this some sort of psychological phenomenon?

Please join both political parties.

Here I was thinking we didn’t need awards and the like, but minds change

lol

Less people = less assholes

Oh great, you're here.

Bruhhh I thought you were someone else. Welcome aboard

how will i financially recover

There was a post the other day about other lemmy servers that had thousands of inactive users. The OP contacted the admins of those servers to let them know and several admins did purge a load of accounts.

People were pushing for everyone to comment at least once a day so all the lurkers were counted as active users. It's a little bit of The Pot Roast Principle at this point.

Edit Ok, so don't just pick the first link off Google folks. That got weird fast. Have this Less insane version instead.

This is a pretty standard curve for a recently discovered thing. Everyone is curious what it is, tries it out then a percentage decides it isn’t for them and goes elsewhere.

I had to be pretty stubborn to get into Lemmy, never received the verification email (likely due to sudden server load) and no way to retrigger it, so had to wait until the new version came out. Apparently that removed the login block. Not to mention the filter on my account defaulting to showing no posts (needed to set language filter to include undetermined and my language), so it was kind of a rough entry.

But this number isn’t total accounts, it’s active accounts. So that means people who have logged in at least once during the last month. The accounts still exist from when people came to check it out, but if they decided it wasn’t for them or ran into issues like I did and didn’t return then they’d fall off the active user list.

New products face this curve all the time. Steady growth, discovery spike then retained user drop back to steady, hopefully accelerated, growth with a higher baseline than before.

Fuck spez.

Go back to reddit

Meh, storage is cheap, you can get TBs of storage for less than $100. If things really pick up and you're a smaller Lemmy instance, I bet there'll be some good ways to filter exactly what you store on the server.

What's the point of self hosting?

I have not used it in almost a week and was thinking about giving up and down loaded jerboa.

If this is like Mastodon, then I think the server will flush items cached from other instances when they reach 6 months old

threads??/? 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

That's why there needs to be some kind of algorithm when it sees the standard sorting of your feed would result in a long list from the same sub it should instead alternate as much as it can with other subs before continuing with the one dominating, if that makes sense.

more before the July 1st influx. Not because of the people, but because there is now more ‘popular’ content that has resulted in less niche content. I’ve subscribed to so many communities that I don’t even see comments from many of the smaller ones because the larger ones dominate the feed.

Do you have any recommendations for cool niche communities? I just got here.

Also, I'm tempted to make different accounts for different feeds to customize what I can see when I want to see them to avoid exactly your described problem.

The riff-raff have started drifting in. Saw an honest-to-Tesla Musk fanboi on here this morning and knew the cherry had been popped.

I've still got two, and I like some features on each better than the other. Kbin for instance doesn't federate with some instances very well, doesn't have an app (yet), and doesn't have some of the other features of Lemmy (like cross-posting), but I like the look of it better and some of the posting features are preferable (like when posting a picture post/thread, it gives you a box for alt text). On the other hand, lemmy has a lot of great apps (I have only tried wefwef and Memmy, but I've heard good things about at least 3 more), allows cross-posting, federates well with both search and posts from other sites/instances, but the /all needs some work and it's not as attractive and is missing some features I'd like. Also, sometimes, one or the other is down, so I just switch. I'm active on both lemmy.world and kbin.social.

I think it's a way of denoting satire. The opinion given, like the grammar used, is intentionally bad. I think it originates with r/okbuddyretard where many of the posts are created in ways that mimic how 12 year olds on the internet speak.

Maybe it's a reference to the phenomenon when a word repeated that way isn't noticed, or an earlier meme that uses it?

Weird. I didn't even notice that until I saw your comment.

Its the old meme format format.

Connect is pretty good, and right now is ad free.

💯 Lemmy is self-sustaining now, and the programmers/server admins are getting experience with scaling. IMO Lemmy is now open for business to steal users every time Reddit does something shitty. I'd say spez should be worried, but he probably doesn't actually care past the pump&dump IPO and if Reddit becomes a ghost town after that he'll have already rode off into the sunset.

Posting from LiftOff, I approve

Our role now is to continue making this a viable alternative. We must walk so they can run (away from Reddit)

what would spez have to do? he just made a bunch of the users lose money by removing/expiring coins.

I was just thrown error pages when trying to load lemmy throughout the day earlier today and this is my second attempt to reply to your comment here as it would not let me post comments on Jerboa and I'm now trying it in a web browser.

Edit: Success!

I created a community for the sub I missed from Reddit. It might not be everybody's cup of tea, but I will keep the content flowing to Lemmy every single day.. It takes me 20-40 minutes each day to look for interesting content but it's worth it. As for the lack of comments they will come. The important part is being consistent.

It's your lucky day, someones already done that!

https://spacehey.com/

Move off of lemmy.world

The big instances are overloaded and have major downtime issues

I'd wish that damn boost would hurry up. I'm going through boost withdrawal over here.

It's just the pullback, if it's worth something it will keep going up. I held during the GameStop pullback and made bank on its second wind a month later.

But in which direction?! 😬

The log in and voting issues aren’t because it’s dying, they were because of scaling issues and DDOS attacks because Lemmy is now a visible / popular target.

This stuff is pretty normal for a new upstart service that is becoming popular. This feels like Reddit’s early days.

Most communities have no posts for days.

This is on the community owners. Almost all subreddits start as spaces where one person (the creator) posts daily until the community grows.

It's also a thing on reddit. The vast majority of subreddits created get abandoned. Only a tiny percentage go the distance to become active communities.

Simply subscribe to the active communities, or take part in making communities that you want to be active into active ones. You haven't made a single post and you're complaining about a lack of posts. The problem here is that you just want a slop feed rather than to be an active member of a community.

So far on lemmy all I've really encountered is a bunch of threads going on and on about how great lemmy is, a bunch of assholes who contradict those threads about how great lemmy is, and a shitton of bugs like the one you mentioned and more. I'll give it a shot I guess but my experience has been pretty underwhelming so far.

Happy July, I think I posted this month but just making sure

Real. But no cause for concern. Lemmy experienced a massive, 20-plus-fold increase in userbase almost overnight. The small dip is most likely just the new users settling in and starting to lurk. The recent bot purges probably helped a bit in causing the dip. In any case, it would probably be weirder if we didn't see a dip after such a massive flood of new users

Edit: also, the website to check is the-federation.info

Https://the-federation.info/platform/73 it is linked to from the lemmy main page.

wsb has taught me now is the time to sell my lemmy account, or was it I should buy more Lemmy accounts?

Buy high, sell low or something

I found the snake!

It's been a good run. :(

Lack of marketing & fediverse isn't a familiar concept to most people

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but

but

"Vaginal blood fart" 💀

Doubt

I didn't.

Won't go back can't go back

Yeah I’m not going back lol

I haven't been back. Doubt I ever will. No point to it.

If I’m looking up how to do something with my homelab and there’s a Reddit result I’ll go in, grab a screen of the info I need and then leave. But I deleted my account and don’t browse it at all, won’t be returning

Reddit is not as good as before

Nah. The place just feels shitty anymore, angry even. And there are too many bots now (including all the suddenly pro-Reddit shills who strangely cannot be downvoted into negative numbers).

If anyone wants that, cool. That means more for you because I'm gone.

I didn't. However, my brother, who is mister super liberal, stick it to Reddit, shame on The Man, went back after a couple of days. He's an unsmart person.