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miles
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Lemmy has cleared some early hurdles to grow from near-zero to 60k DAUs in a month. I’ve enjoyed talking to people over the past month in a more friendly and intimate way than on that other site. The main communities are fun and viable but the niche ones are mostly empty. I run a niche hobby community and despite having a few hundred subscribers <5% have ever commented, <0.5% have posted. I think Lemmy needs to be perhaps 10x larger than it is now to be self-sustaining for niche communities.
It’s called a single-point of failure in Engineering.
For that instance, yes. For the whole of Lemmy, no. Everything else keeps on chugging along.
A lot of mobile apps don't display community banners, and they're how a lot of people interact with lemmy.
🫘 bean strong 💪
I wonder about this as well -- because communities are tied to a specific home instance, that instance going down affects that community, potentially killing it. Something more akin to hashtags/tags/labels wouldn't be tied to an instance so they would be more robust, though you'd lose the moderation of a community and just have a firehose of posts/comments...
Great instance review, thank you! FYI your markdown links are broken, switch the brackets, links are [like] (this) not (like)[this]
Hello! I am still figuring out this federation stuff after having created the community !ultralight@lemmy.world. I’ve heard discussion about how fast lemmy.world is growing and outpacing the other instances, and some discussion how it’s important to spread users out. I wondered if I should recommend instances other than lemmy.world or perhaps even move myself. With that in mind I wanted to see what my new community looked like from other instances. I decided to sample some of the larger instances from https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ - as of 10am July 3, 2023 EDT here’s what I see:
(See table above)
Out of the 13 instances !ultralight@lemmy.world is only really usable from 4 of them, and only up-to-date on one of them, lemmy.world. If this is representative of the state of things generally I’m a bit concerned for the implications that it will funnel everyone onto a single instance and turn lemmy.world into a monolith.
can you think of a better way of addressing the situation?
click “Create Community” 😁
Then ask about that! “How do I cultivate a better sense of curiosity?” or even “Ask Lemmy, what should I ask?”
Agreed on the need to adjust mindset. Initially I behaved similarly to how I did on that other site until I realized that Lemmy is different and that’s ok. It’s a lot smaller and federation has its advantages and drawbacks and we’ll see it in action soon enough. Many seek the comfort of the familiar and are not always finding it. Start by appreciating the hard work that has allowed many of us to transition here quite easily. Take a deep breath, look around and realize that we are now playing a different game.
It’s ok to have a boring life, I think it’s worth examining why that is felt to be as issue. we’ve been so conditioned by social media to project otherwise
Ah, ok. So if lemmy.world dies, but !somecommunity@lemmy.world was federated to 2 different other instances, those instances wouldn't be able to "talk to each other"? They'd just have snapshots that they could locally interact with, but never see anything else? So is the fate of the Lemmyverse a graveyard of communities from dead instances?
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world are there good bots?
yes, you can subscribe to any community that has been federated. search communities "all" or just go to !moviesandtv@lemmy.film
Always happy to help!
meaning you could read my reply on a community that basically no longer exists
oh really? does it actually work this way? if lemmy.world dies, can all its communities continue to live on as long as there are lemmy instances out there federated and subscribed?
I was a lurker/participator on reddit but am more active on Lemmy -- I created community !ultralight@lemmy.world
the posts appear but the votes and comments are missing. the "community pinned" post at the top is missing. the stats in the sidebar are way off. compare https://lemmy.world/c/ultralight@lemmy.world
That’s fair, but surely some decision brought you here, some motivation. Something you’re looking for.
I already have! Come join us in !ultralight@lemmy.world 🤓
if you click https://lemmy.world/comment/2024416 what do you see? i see nothing, just a blank page
why make users set a home instance? i can see a list of communities local to lemmy.world at https://lemmy.world/communities in the [Local] tab, and i can search my home instance at https://lemmy.world/search. i figured a search engine would span instances so users could find things across the lemmy-verse?
Cool, how do I do it? https://www.search-lemmy.com/results?query=ultralight still returns "Found 0 results in 0.01 seconds"
I'm trying an instance-specific link, it isn't working.
Aha, ok! With that in mind I searched some of the "red" status instances for communities containing "ultralight" and couldn't find !ultralight@lemmy.world; so does this mean in order for users to be able to find my community from their instances, I (or someone else) needs to register for each instance and then subscribe?
cleared cache, your url still gives me no results. in the top right the dropdown as "Ice Orchid". I'm not sure what that is
very cool, thanks for the feedback and the site! my question is more along the lines of whether someone interested in a topic would be able to find my community without knowing it existed in the first place?
I created !ultralight@lemmy.world -- searching for "ultralight" returns zero results on your site https://search-lemmy.com/results?query=ultralight&page=1 whereas searching for it at least returns something on each lemmy instance i've searched
Glad to hear from you! It’s ok to chat here, it’s a much smaller and more friendly place 😊
Break the ice, make your first post today 😊
I see, so discovery happens out of band, so in order to find it someone has to already have found it. "Search All" is only searching what has already been found on this particular instance, and so the results can vary depending on where you are.
it shows up but has no votes nor comments. compare to https://lemmy.world/c/ultralight@lemmy.world
Community Federation Status
That fourth quote is legit quality.