YSK: This community is dying [META]locked

AvaddonLFC ☄️ 🤘@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 323 points –

Upper note: This post is not about Lemmy. It's about this specific community :)

Why YSK: because if you're seeing this, you're probably subscribed to it :) we need more posts & activity if you want to keep it alive and thriving! It's been dead in the last 2 days.

Please follow our rules(which are very few) if you decide to support & create activity. And please don't hurry. We don't want the main page to be sick of us, do we? Haha.

edit: Thanks to everyone sharing their opinions as to why this might be & helping create activity! I did not expect this to pick up so fast haha. As always, your suggestions and opinions matter.

edit 2: As the level of activity on this post and the immediate boost of activity caused by it was unexpected, it will be locked in hopes to prevent flooding the site. Again, thanks to everyone for helping our community and sharing your opinions. You are loved!

edit 3: thrice the amount of content in a day. this post worked innit? ;)

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@clueless_stoner it'd help if the fedverse was more seemeless. like in wow: realms, zones, and servers all crosstalk without any issue at all. I fail to get how somewhat less competitive but equally socially "challanged" group of people aka geeks and nerds. can't refactor the code to do so. or maybe that's in the works.

Maybe I'm missing context, but it kinda is seamless? And the OP doesn't seem to be suggesting that it's a fault of the fediverse, just that there isn't much content going into this specific community.

I don't see what your complaint is? You are on Kbin responding to someone on lemmy.world. Of course that hasn't been perfect, but Lemmy and Kbin have only really had this amount of traffic for like a week

I think there are already proposals for allowing both communities and profiles to be federated. That would mean that a community's data would be managed and replicated across servers.

But as of right now the issues are really:

  1. Server cost - There has been such an influx of new users to lemmy because of reddit that the smaller servers cannot handle the traffic of the larger ones. So they have been (hopefully only temporarily) forced to de-federate from the larger servers in order to reduce traffic.
  2. Quality of life - Lemmy is too new and there are lots of quality of life enhancements that still need to take place. The biggest being around how cross-instance viewing, linking and subscriptions work from a user experience POV. Right now someone could link to another community on a different instance and it takes you off-site and that needs to change.

The reality is Lemmy isn't completely ready for the masses yet and still needed to cook for a few more years. People need to be willing to put up with the jank. Reddit and other social media platforms had 10+ years to evolve and improve the user experience.