Just wanted to say that's a very nice and clean looking page.

Seeing some subreddits go private as a pop-up in the bottom right while on the site gave me a weird sense of apprehension...

https://startrek.website

Well, it's in the honeymoon phase right now, so everyone is cheerful, happy, and nice. All the jerks haven't moved over yet... 😀

Wait, the advertisers have campaigns to take over subreddits? What?!

I’m embarrassed to say that so far my Saturday has consisted of reading and posting on various lemmy instances. Is that how I typically spend my weekend? No. I should log off, and go do weekend stuff.

There was a pretty big jump in active instances, too!

Active daily user count is about 50k.

I’m going to make my own Reddit, with blackjack and hookers!

Are we allowing emojis here?

You need permission to use emojis? 🤔

Oh, you mean in the sense that “emojis = downvotes” on Reddit. I still used them on Reddit anyway. 🤷‍♂️

BTW: you can use : shorthand for emojis, in case you didn’t know. 👍

I mean, sure some are probably people making multiple accounts, but based on the speed of new posts showing up I’d believe there are at least 20k on lemmy.world. It’s the largest and most stable instance at the moment.

Personally I run my own instance and connect to the communities from there.

Uh... that is starting to look exponential...

Blood… reaching… boiling point…

The question is: what percentage of those users are bots? And does it matter?

It's starting...

Glad we have Lemmy to fall back on while reddit goes on strike at least.

Yup. Lemmy version 0.17.4 was merged, tagged and shipped. It has a major performance improvement in the backend (the database specifically).

Look in the footer of the page:

• BE: 0.17.4 denotes the backend version
• UI: is missing in the footer but was updated to the same release.

For anyone who wants to see the 0.17.4 specific changes compared to the previous version, 0.17.3:

• lemmy-ui changes
• lemmy-backend changes

That was fast...

No. Please no.

Internet ads exist to track users, and all those tracking pixels can also cause performance issues. Ads basically don’t even make that much money per impression and for the most part just frustrate people. It’s a lose/lose for everyone.

Enjoy your upvote fellow lemming!

It would be great if the instance kept a pulse on how federation to other instances is going and showed a health check in the app sidebar and near instance names to temper user expectations.

That sounds like a great idea!

You bring up a very good point. Currently lemmy.ml has thousands of users. Lemmy.world has thousands of users. The hardware they have selected to run their instances is adequate for now, but, what is the plan for scaling out if the user base grows? Is there one? They have a donation page on each lemmy instance (click or tap the heart icon,) but that can’t be enough to pay for the cost of running something used by millions of people, even if only 100s of thousands are ever only online at any given time.

I’m terms of UI/UX, @dessalines@lemmy.ml has mentioned in a post they are currently working on major performance improvements and enhancements.

But on the other hand, look at how much the lemmy and kbin user base has grown. The blackouts had a significant impact in increasing lemmy adoption and usage.

Prior to the announced blackouts, I had no idea Lemmy even existed. Now here I am running my own instance.

Also, advertisers Reddit sells to have halted their campaigns until “next week.”

I think while on the surface it might feel underwhelming, it had more impact than you think. And now mods are discussing extending the blackout too.