The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.
That is good since we are all beta testing the site and developing tools to manage everything before the real migration occurs.
Real migration? Who would be migrating? The 90% we left behind?
No, thank you.
The more the merrier.
You can move to smaller universes if that’s what you see fit.
No, in this case, the more is not the merrier. Otherwise you end up with the reddit shitshow.
You can choose to be on smaller instances that only federate with smaller instances.
Having more people gives us more options.
Fair enough.
Eventually more will come.
Can we gate keep the riffraff out? For once?
The more the merrier. I want the doctors from askdocs and the historians and the eli5 people and the lawyers from legaladvice etc etc to be here too. Currently it’s mainly us tech nerds who understand how the fediverse works. Which is nice at times but having a wide range of nerds from many fields would be great
Or like if an A-list Hollywood actress suddenly started marketing her new summer blockbuster on a small forum of mostly tech workers.
Sure makes you think.
Guess we’ll never know why Tara Reid did a reddit AMA in 2015 just to market “Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!” now.
Memory unlocked. I saw that ama and also watched the movie. So the marketing worked on a tard like me.
Did the movie promotion campaign by a certain Academy Award nominated marketing genius before the actor’s strike also work on you then?
The loudest band so far seems to be the “memes” band.
Fuckin hate memes.
Too many god damned memes
Enjoy the intimate atmosphere while it last. The hordes will find us eventually.
You can always have your own universe within the fediverse.
I once saw Yo-Yo Ma perform at a Borders book store in Boston.
IDK but if, say, Motörhead came to a 50 seat library in some small town it would be kinda cute and would make the library famous, and it would make all other libraries envy them in a good way.
Edit: just learned that Lemmy died 8 years ago. Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something…
I will imagine Imagine Dragons.
Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something…
But they’re not Lemmy. :-\
allow me to introduce you to https://lemmy.world/c/tonightsdinner it’s pretty much that except playing in the empty back room of the library - cooks come and post please
I don’t cook but I’ll support your cause.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !tonightsdinner@lemmy.world
Good bot!
Small communities and slow content feeds are fine for me I think. Either way I’m glad I’m here to witness this liminal period.
👍
They’re just doing their part for decentralized social media.
If their fans love them enough, they’ll make an account.
When Bush were at the height of their success, I saw them in a little 300 person room. It was brilliant and we should appreciate Lemmy while it is in that state.
You’re talking about Kate Bush, right?
No, rock band Bush.
Wow, what an amazing privilege.
True, but since it’s about the Fediverse and Lemmy, this was a better fit.
For sure! Just sharing a community you can cross-post to, or inspire others to subscribe to if they like this type of post.
…the other 50 who showed up had to stand in the hall or not get in at all. They said the venue sucks and left.
Why is that?
A lot of people ran into signup and login issues over the last few weeks and just bailed.
“The system overwhelmed by this influx of new users is experiencing problems that make it take more than three seconds to get something done. Bye.”
WTF, I’m not going anywhere. I’ve been trying to help frustrated people on /r/Lemmy and /r/Redditalternatives. What have you done to help?
Lol, I was imitating the people who left after two seconds because of the problems.
It was a natural filter. Good for the community quality, possibly.
Edit: added quotation marks for clarification
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I’m kind of enjoying the smaller community size. Unlike reddit where I’d come across a post that I have something interesting to say about and see there are already 27,481 comments.
Only thing that bothers me is that most of the biggest communities are @ lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, so it still feels kind of centralized.
Obviously it’s not, but I wonder if too much “power” in one instance will have some negative consequences in future. For example one of them going black results in losing half of lemmy content and orphaned users probably won’t spread to smaller instances but will join next biggest.
I was against it at first, but there’s probably a lot of value in communities spinning up their own domains and hosting their own focused communities. Instead of a central Lemmy.world which hosts many different communities, we should have lemmyPics.com and lemmyMusic.com and MaleFashionAdvice.com that all run Lemmy software, and then people can subscribe in from remote instances easily.
There’s still a place for general instances in this model too, but I think these communities might get off the ground easier with a $12 domain name and cloud hosting services than trying to all be the next Reddit.
Unless there’s an easy way to migrate a community to another instance, half of those will just go dark in a year or two when the admin gets bored. It’s also going to make updates suck when a breaking change happens and you have a month of admins getting around to updating.
But all the other federated instances will have an duplicate of certain posts/comments, right?
Maybe some content in cache. Not photos for sure. I’m not sure how exactly will this look like, but we can observe vlemmy.net as example, as it seems to be permanently down.
