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[–] 34 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I am fine with the place settling for a bit. It would suck if this place was as big as other sites are overnight. I want to watch this place grow over time

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Natural, healthy, positive growth! Not growth for growths sake

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Yes! Enough of the "I'm doing my part meme" that isn't even real content.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah, my main problem so far has been finding communities actually worth following/joining/contributing to.

    If suddenly tons of average people join, they won't really find communities, they'll deem that their analysis of Lemmy, and leave with tiny chances of a second chance. It'll just boom and bust in it's current state. Most people aren't interested in starting or growing a small community.

    Meanwhile, if we stay at this size for a while, communities may form/grow, and as people trickle in, they'll grow bit by bit.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I’m interested in seeing how well these great open source apps for Lemmy scale as the user base and post/comment data grows.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The apps are already amazing and will not suffer issues of scale themselves because they run on users’ devices. The scaling issues will be in Lemmy server code and ActivityPub in general.

    ActivityPub doesn’t seem very scalable IMHO. It works well if all instances are about the same size and communities are well-distributed. Right now a few servers like lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.ml are much larger than others. They host most of the popular communities as well. This creates an imbalance which ActivityPub doesn’t handle well.

    I think Lemmy instances should be topic based. But that’d be confusing for people coming from centralized social media who are only trying to find a reliable starting place. So I really hope we reach a point of maturity and mainstream-ness of Fediverse that people feel comfortable with smaller theme-based instances.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Commenting so I have commented in July.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The battles are short but the war is long

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That is probably my fault, I'm cursed and the moment I ever join any organization or community, something invariably always happens.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    Meanwhile, Threads is stronger than ever. Try Threads today!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Here I was thinking we didn’t need awards and the like, but minds change

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I think awards would be fun. They wouldn't have to cost anything either

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Sorry I was busy this weekend.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Don't worry, I'm here to stay ^_^

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, I deleted my account, so there is no going back to reddit. Also discussions here seem better for me for some reason.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Ah well...

    Se you guys on..

    on...

    uhh, Lemmy?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Buh....But I like it here. No toxicity and genuine discussions. Also fuck u/spez.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I personally miss understood the fedivers and had multiple accounts on different instances. Currently I am only using one. I guess that is part of the dip.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    the memes communities are alive, that's all that matters

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    LOL this reminds me of the numerous news articles that kept saying how Mastodon wouldn't scale and how it would never take off. The most ridiculous one: "Mastodon is crumbling". (We're over 13 million users right now.)

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    What's with this meme format having repeated words at the end of the first line and beginning of the second. It happens so frequently it surely can't just be inattention.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I think it's a way of denoting satire. The opinion given, like the grammar used, is intentionally bad. I think it originates with r/okbuddyretard where many of the posts are created in ways that mimic how 12 year olds on the internet speak.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago

    I remember the good old 4chan days when every 3rd post was about how "this is the cancer that is killing /b/" ...

    Which in hindsight was not wrong. It's a husk of what it was. I fought with many a /b/tard in the great Tumblr wars. It was remnant of a more wild age, before the summer posters, before the psyops.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Bot purge or server issues?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    There was a post the other day about other lemmy servers that had thousands of inactive users. The OP contacted the admins of those servers to let them know and several admins did purge a load of accounts.

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