There’s also people that create multiple accounts in different instances and end up using just one.
I did this. I didn’t initially realize there is such a thing as instances (I thought I was joining Lemmy). Came from Reddit so didn’t expect this. Now I only use my Lemmy.world account, the other one is doing nothing (should probably get around deleting it at some point).
So far I’ve created an account at sh.itjust.works (first one), lemmy.world (main during most of my time here), lemmy.dbzer0.com (first attempt to migrate to another instance) and at lemm.ee, because I wasn’t happy with how lemmy.world admins run their instance (preemptively defederating Hexbear but not Meta).
I guess I should delete my other accounts.
Never heard of Hexbear (kind of new around here). Why were they defederated? I’m actually on Lemmy World.
For being a communist instance, here’s the announcement.
Oh wow. After reading the announcement I’m glad they got defederated.
Sadly, there’s just not a critical mass of users in most of the communities I’m interested in. I pop in here every once in a while to see what’s going on, but it’s currently lacking the diversity of content that you get on Reddit. I’m still rooting for it to succeed.
there were 3-4ish communities on that other site that i was pretty active in that are ghost towns here and there is a zero to none chance that they will migrate over. i still go over there for those communities.
that said, for the mindless amusement/newsanddoom scroll lemmy is fine and i do find myself more active here in the general community. it’s just those niche communities haven’t hit the numbers they need to be self-sustaining.
These are natural growing pains of any new platform. A lot of people will come over, check it out, and then go back to Reddit.
Hard for me to be active when my home server is down most days 😂
Yup lemmy.world is down literally every day for me. I mean seriously, look at this:
And when the smaller instances I am on can’t handle mobile browsing. It’s annoying when you press back and it takes you all the way back instead of just where you were.
Might as well post here as my first one. Hi, Lemmy. :)
Yo, there’s two of us!
A big issue was loosing all the .ml lemmy instances. I lost mine and had to create a new account. lemmy.ml is the only one that’s still up.
Lemmy needs a middle logical layer to really take off. If a local server moderats it as such, the default view for say /c/technology shouldn’t be slit across a dozen instances. Instead it should be merged into one view.
Without it you have a bunch of largely stagnant communities.
I feel like it’s one small community instead of an interconnected larger one, unfortunately.
As a lurker I mostly just vote. But gotta post every once in a while to add to active users stat!
I don’t know why, but it never occurred to me that you need to comment to be counted as “active”
Is this actually written somewhere?
At least there’s something to do here. Mastodon almost always feels like a ghost town to me. I only really keep it on my home screen because I like the icon.
it can very much depend on your instance, do you look at the ‘all’ option and or do you just stay on your instance?
I originally thought it would display everything from every instance by default, but if it isn’t, then I don’t know why you would design a social media platform to work in a federated manner if only stuff from your instance is shown.
Still waiting for the ability to block instances as a user.
It needs a solid app like Apollo was for Reddit to help it keep active users.
I just installed Infinity for Lemmy and it looks pretty good so far. It’s still at Avery early stage, but it has the nice look & fell of Infinity for Reddit.
Connect is so good I’m surprised I don’t hear about it more.
Liftoff is pretty slick, tho.
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I’m okay with it being smaller. I don’t think I want this to be Reddit-sized. I would like more users for sure but not that many.
Some dropoff after initial hype is normal. Now we just continue as usual until reddit pisses people off again.
Dude I was away on vacation chill. :-)
