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What’s missing from Lemmy that would make it unattractive to the average user?
I don’t think it’s always easy to pinpoint UX issues and user friction. Sometimes these things just don’t stick with mainstream users. I say it’s worth a try to see which platform the average Reddit user will prefer.
But if you’re gonna use from a phone, Lemmy’s selection of mobile apps is unbeatable.
The rate of growth does matter yea. If an instance gets worried, they can lock signups. Slow growth means the software has time to improve as they notice issues.
Lemmy had many issues scaling before, except Lemmy had huge surges with the Reddit API blackouts.
If people start recommending PieFed now, it’s on their own terms instead of a massive wave. They can backoff if they get too many users.
I think it’s unlikely that they would attract such a large number of users with 1 post on r/RedditAlternatives or something. Lemmy gets spammed everywhere and we usually don’t even gain 1000 users a day overall across all instances.
There’s already been some comments about PieFed and they didn’t result in huge surges.
We have data on what it costs to run a sizeable instance of Lemmy and it’s not a lot. How does Piefed compare? Anyone starting an instance who envisions it growing large has to contend with this question.
I don’t think this is a major concern yet. The largest PieFed instance has 308 active users, 2nd place has 34. They’ve got room to grow.
https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list
People can start posting about PieFed on Reddit and see how the Reddit users react.
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Does it make sense to host your own instance of lemmy for one user?
Not really lol, but if you think it will be fun then go for it
They were online earlier, they’ll probably be back
They’re back online now
They’re back online now
57,253 now that April 1st has been counted. Not as big a gain today as some recent days, but still gaining.
But I think that includes the loss of mander.xyz, you can see the drop in the number of online servers, so that’s actually impressive that we still grew even with mander offline, hopefully they come back.
Looks like mander was at 188 MAU. https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/mander.xyz
EDIT: mander.xyz is back online
- “sort”: that’s the word for the options of “new”, “scaled”, “active” etc, right?
Yep https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
- @Die4Ever pointed out there’s a “Show Read Posts” option in the settings. I’ve unticked that and will see how it goes.
I honestly don’t use this feature myself lol but I hope it helps you!
Chat view is very useful for going back and checking a large thread that you’ve read before
Recently I used this for the AMA thread
It’s definitely a concern. People ask these questions about Lemmy, but no one asks how the horizontal scaling of Twitter functions and then complains that your explanation is too technical.
For like 99% of Reddit accounts, that’s all they do anyways lol
Yeah, I created this post so we could figure out how to handle these questions/concerns, because there’s a lot here
I think the confusion arises when people try to optimize maximum usage of “Lemmy” instead of just hearing someone say “hey join midwest.social it’s fun, I’ll see you there”, and then they say “ok” and signup and use it as-is, like the old forum days. Don’t even need to use the word “Lemmy”.
They probably weren’t optimally using Reddit to its fullest potential, yet they won’t even dip their toe into Lemmy until they have a perfectly optimal gameplan of maximizing their usage of Lemmy better than anyone ever has before. Just jump in! You don’t have to be perfect, just click around and upvote and leave comments.
I never know what to do with these lol
it actually has quite a few upvotes too