Dr. Santa

I think Lemmy's biggest challenges are server stability, increased complexity to use (most don't understand things like instances), and low awareness from others. I only learned about it a day or two ago. Signed up out of curiosity.

But if Lemmy gets even more popular then the various popular instances are going to be stressed. It looks unstable to newcomers who go back to Reddit.

I signed up for lemmy.world originally, constantly had Gateway errors. Lemm.ee seems more stable due to lower traffic.

But others may not be able to recognize that. Even if they did, might not want to create new accounts for several instances and go back to starting from 0.

That new ugly UI.

It's so damn cluttered.

How clean your bedroom is.

For now, anyway.

Would it be classier of a can of beans was wearing a suit or tuxedo?

Family Guy.

It's completely necessary.

How else does one click hotkeys while standing?

Yeah, "community" is kinda bland.

And I feel it has the potential to make newbies confused with instance.

One aspect I'd love (and is apparently in the works) is swapping instances while keeping your history. A migration tool of sorts. Would help.

Still the roughness is sorta endearing in its own way. But I don't think it'd be endearing to most people.

They're definitely shit posts.

I doubt he cares about that.

If nothing else you struck my curiosity.

Bad news, Reddit is a zombie.

Potentially. Though Reddit claims that the vast majority (like 90+%) used the official app. Of course, if such was true then you'd expect they wouldn't pull the rug out from under everyone.

I can believe a majority used the official up. Maybe even a supermajority. 80% maybe.

But throwing a fit over 1-10% of your user base and doubling down when that low percentage doesn't agree? I dunno.

It's a big enough number that made them want to kill the third-party apps but it's small enough that they felt they could survive the backlash.

Tell me about this "Digg." It sounds so familiar, but I don't think I actually ever used anything called Digg.

Unfortunately, the reality is that it may become necessary.

Donations can be a saving grace if enough people donate regularly. But such is dependent on people's willingness, their own financial stability, and how stressed servers are (how much it'll cost to upgrade and/or maintain infrastructure.)

It's great if it's viable. Means there's less outside influence. But that's if.

As far as I'm aware, Wikipedia has been able to maintain it purely off donations. But I'm not sure if Lemmy could.

Maybe? One thing Lemmy does have going for it is that the majority of users seem to be aware how... Fragile? the fediverses can be. There's arguably more passion behind the users and maybe willing to throw support out.

But hard to say.

I'm not sure I'm following.

Wouldn't this load balancer be swapping the user's current instance user420@lemmy.world may suddenly become user420@lemm.ee?

Or more like multiple servers within the same umbrella instance? User420@lemmy.world, User420@lemmy.world1, User420@lemmy.world2, User420@lemmy.world3.

Apologies, while I think myself fairly tech savvy, development and networking is still a bit out of reach.

I noticed you talked about the load balancer being a person. Sounds like it'd be better if it was a bot. They just see which pool is currently the emptiest and put them there, right?

Although you seem to be suggesting live instance swapping. Which might be possible in the future. Right now appears to be tied to registration.

In a normal, nonfederated site, sure. But when you throw instances on top of it, it gets a bit more complex.

On another note, I don't believe we're gonna get a lot of people coming here who aren't redditors.

I feel like most of the problem would be physical hardware. Costly servers that would need to be able to meet Lemmy's growing demands.

I'm not sure how much optimization from the software side can be done to reduce resource requirements. There's certainly things that can be done to improve user experience though.

Always some going off in early July and late June.

Hopefully, World gets its stability worked out.

Imagine it requires better hosting, which can be costly.

6k now.

Not very.

It mostly just displays the frontpage and the threads there. Can log in but can't really interact beyond voting.

It currently crashes upon going into a... "Sublemmy?" I don't know what we're calling it here.

Work in progress. Still looks like home.

Haven't saw any human beans. Yet, at least.

Or maybe nonprofit organizations. Though I'm having a harder time imagining why they'd need a social network site, especially if it's federated with our shit posting "sublemmies" or whatever we're calling them here.

I'd be down.

Weird, thought I was on this account when I made the comment.

Chili does sound like it'd be better with rice though.

A lot of this sounds familiar.

I just wonder of this is actually going to have a similar effect. Controversial decision but I'm pretty used to seeing companies get away with shitty choices.