• I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
    79·
    1 year ago

    Keep in mind, dear folks, simply coming ain’t enough. Be sure to stay and visit often, otherwise the rich assholes win ;)

  • Neuraxis@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    1 year ago

    Lemmy perfectly represents the adage “building the plane as you fly it” and it’s been so much fun seeing it take shape.

    • Iceman@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      It’s great. In weeks people has packed their bags and badabing badaboom new community. The party continues as reddit never happened (besides the gloating ofc)

  • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
    655·
    1 year ago

    This is not a good thing. Part of the problem is third-party apps like Sync and other Fediverse advocates that direct Reddit users to sign up on only one instance, lemmy.world. This is understandable to keep things simple for the Redditors but it hurts lemmy.world (cost and performance-wise) and the Fediverse as a whole (centralization) to have a lot of accounts on one instance. I hope lemmy.world can make an announcement or guide to encourage users to spread out to more instances.

    • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      1 year ago

      I think another reason too is that .world is run by Ruud who is a trusted actor in the space (he already runs Mastodon.world, a large mastodon instance), and so many (including me) probably felt it would be a safe harbor and not likely to get shut down or run poorly.

      • Hypersapien@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        Maybe ony Lemmy.world’s registration page thay can list other instances that they trust and endorse.

        • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          Not a bad idea. Might need assistance vetting servers and admins right now though as Ruud is probably busy taking a fire extinguisher to the server room every other minute.

        • darkstar@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          This is a brilliant idea. Drive all the traffic to lemmy.world as it seems like the “main hub”, then when registering drive users to a few other instances as well

          • Hypersapien@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Maybe we should set up a separate site that monitors different instances and tries to suggest instances in the federation group that you want and then everyone gets directed there.

      • ramplay@lemmy.caEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        I stumbled into lemmy disoriented and just went with lemmy.ca because I always want to support ‘local’ domains. I’m surprised people go for for something like ‘.world’ tbh. Although, I think your logic makes sense I also know how little people read and its safer to say people just signed up for the instance that was the path of least resistance (low application threshold, links guiding them in, etc)

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          I scrolled through a few that were recommended and world seemed like it was just generally the best fit for me. Especially since I didn’t want any chance of running into explicitly queerphobic communities while having plenty of variety in topics

        • GregorGizeh@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          1 year ago

          It’s just that I really don’t care about what happens in my area within this context, I can just go outside to know what’s going on. And if I want to talk to local people I don’t do it on here either, so I prefer more international communities than just my town except it’s online

    • Resonosity@dgngrnder.comEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      For anyone that’s using Lemmy.world and wants to lessen their burden on the admins, look for a Lemmy instance closer to you (in the physical world) using this site:

      https://fediverse.observer/map

      Sign up on that instance, sign in on your Lemmy app, sort based on All, and you should be able to see the same content as if you were on Lemmy.world!

      • Protoknuckles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        Me just now - Oh that’s a good idea! (Looks up the instances near me and sees the names) Oh, that’s right. I live in conservative hell. :(

        I’ll go a little further and find a less crazy instance…

      • hunt4peas@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I only have Mastodon instances near me. Can Mastodon instances browse Lemmy instances?

        • Resonosity@dgngrnder.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          I believe Mastodon is a different software compared to Lemmy. Lemmy is an aggregation software of the entire Fediverse, while Mastodon is more like Twitter. My limited knowledge of Mastodon makes me think that it wouldn’t be possible to see Lemmy instances, but if you sent your comment using Mastodon then their might be a chance. Hopefully someone else in the comments will sound off.

          • sv1sjp@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            You can see posts and users on Lemmy instances from Mastodon. However there are some limitations.

      • diggit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It would be helpful if they would allow you to filter by which instances allow sign ups. Unless I’m just not seeing it.

      • rookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I think the best approach might be general subject-specific instances? Like, video.games with a main games community, meme community, then smaller communities for various games - or sports.social, with communities for each sport.

        I feel like we’re going to end up with a particular community on a particular instance ending up as the “default” community for that subject, but it’d probably be better (in an ideal world) to have those on separate instances to maintain some degree of decentralization

      • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I know that it’s inevitable, but the signup flow should try to weaken that effect instead of contribute to it. An example of how not to do it is Mastodon’s old homepage which led to only one instance, mastodon.social, to “make onboarding easier”.

    • SeedyOne@lemmy.caEnglish
      102·
      1 year ago

      I think we’re trusting them to crunch the numbers and simply shut off registration if it gets out of control. At least, I’d hope so.

      • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        That wouldn’t be good either if third parties are still funnelling new users to lemmy.world. They’ll see a “sign ups closed” message, assume there is only one forum and it’s closed, then go back to Reddit.

        • charrondev@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          Actually it’s even worse than that. I tried yesterday to register on https://lemmy.ml but it let me go through the registration process up to the submit button before returning an error message “Registration Closed”.

          • It’s very annoying to have closed registration in the first place.
          • When registration is closed the registration form should definitely not be present and let me fill the whole form.
          • The error message should not just say “Registration Closed”, there should be some indication of where else I should go to register.
          • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldMEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            This is good feedback! If you haven’t already, you might post it to !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml. They may have already gotten this feedback, so you might do a quick skim of other posts before doing so, but honestly it’d be good to post just with this point specifically, since others may have only tossed it in amidst more general feedback.

        • SeedyOne@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          A necessary evil but one that can be overcome. I would hope there’d be a way to leave a message about trying one of many other instances or at least a link to a Fediverse FAQ.

    • LaVacaMariposa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Hi, I’m new here. How can I move to another instance? Is there a way to migrate, or do I just have to register another account somewhere else? Thanks :)

      • CeruleanRuin@lemmy.oneEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I’m new, but slightly less so, and haven’t yet found a way to migrate my account to a new instance. But it’s also fairly trivial to just create a new account on another instance, especially when you don’t yet have a ton of subscriptions or much of a reply history to lose. Lemmy doesn’t have a running karma like reddit did, so it’s not like you’re even losing fake internet points in the process.

      • Resonosity@dgngrnder.comEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        I don’t think you can migrate, since if that was possible your “karma” would also be able to move with you. People have been asking for that recently, but others have been saying that the Lemmy software doesn’t support that.

        I think the best thing you can do is make a new account on a new instance and look back at the rest of the fediverse from that instance.

    • Willer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 year ago

      I gotta give it to this instance tho. Right now it has the fastest loading time ive ever experienced on the internet in a long time. Dont browse too fast tho, or you might get rate limited.

    • Getawombatupya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      How is it possible to decentralise sign ups and see/searchable content and tabs? I used to be tech savvy but these days I struggle a bit. Turning into a dinosaur.

      • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        I have a “when I stop being bad at web development” project idea for this, hopefully someone who has a development background can pick it up.

        The idea is an open-source onboarding portal that takes all Lemmy instances from awesome-lemmy-instances and Kbin instances from FediDB and lets their admins tag their instances with what the instance is focused on, maybe through a dedicated community or something. This list of instances and tags is public so instances can’t cheat the system with fake tags or get secretly blacklisted just because the project maintainer disagrees with them.

        Users get directed to the portal and fill out a quiz with questions like “what are your hobbies”, “do you prefer strict or lax moderation”, and get matched to a list of the closest servers and recommended communities. There will also be a simple load balancing algorithm to make large instances less likely to be recommended. Of course, because it’s open source, the algorithm and list of instances can be changed if someone wants to host their own portal.

        Basically, something like Spread Mastodon that covers the entire known network and not just a few of the largest instances that are approved by mastodon.social.

        • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          I like the idea and it sounds like a fantastic tool for people who would have been interested in the Fediverse anyway. I just fear taking a quiz is too cumbersome to be an optimal onboarding method for Lemmy as a Reddit replacement. The reason .world exploded in popularity was the simplicity (just go here and sign up and you’re posting within minutes and your Local is the biggest instance so you’re going to find content even if you’ve not discovered the All button).

          • Andreas@feddit.dkEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Doesn’t every major social media website have an onboarding quiz these days? Whenever I created an alt on Reddit or Twitter, there would be this prompt asking me what I’m interested in, then it would recommend subreddits/accounts/hashtags to follow. I know Facebook and Instagram prompt for your contacts and interests to generate recommendations too. If the average social media user can manage this, so can future Threadiverse users.

    • hyazinthe@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      At least, users of lemmy.world (and from different servers when we are at it) should be educated, so they feel relatively confident to switch and understand why this is important.

  • DopamineDeficient@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, I also try to be more active as a user in Lemmy, and it feels way more rewarding because it feels like a more tight-knitly community here. Like it a lot!

  • Nerii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    37·
    1 year ago

    I mean, if Reddit blocks 3rd party apps, I ain’t staying. I’ll just come here which appears to basically be a better version of Reddit.

  • negativeyoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    This is pretty awesome. I’ve tried mastodon when Twitter shit the bed a few months back and it never really launched the way I’d hoped.

    Lemmy seems pretty lively. At first I was a bit disillusioned with the fact that it’s not as active as reddit, but I feel the caliber of user that’s come over is better than who we’ve all been dealing with the past 3-5 years over there. I’m happy to be here and there’s palpable excitement

  • acedude1234@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    35·
    1 year ago

    It’s nice seeing how much Lemmy is growing. I knew there would be an influx of new users from the 30th, but it’s honestly nice seeing more comments overall and posts getting upvoted.

  • morgan423@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 year ago

    You all might not be aware, but I think Rudd started this server only at the beginning of June for funsies, probably only expecting a couple of hundred users.

    Then, of course, came Reddit API-calypse. Now, here we are barely 4 weeks later, almost 80k users on the instance. From nothing, to a respectable chuck of the fediverse, just that fast. Pretty amazing.

    • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      True, I opened my account June 1st on Beehaw, lemmy.world didn’t exist yet. But I had to open an account on LW when BH defederated them…

      • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        134·
        1 year ago

        I’m happy to see .world growing for this reason. There has to be a neutral ground for everyone. The gatekeeping of communities like Beehaw are fine for them, but in order for the lemmy to grow, it has to be shapeable by the community. Moderation screening, content rigidity, and walled gardens are antithetical to the type of social network that people are looking for as a replacement to Reddit. The community has to be allowed to make the place its own.

        Edit: For the record, I’m perfectly aware they plan to refederate once they get their “moderation” tools. I just question what tools they deem sufficient to permit refederation. Moderation tools on Lemmy will be extremely powerful thanks to votes being public, and I don’t trust admins of some of these instances to be responsible or fair with them, or to only use them on the most toxic elements. Petty, groundless shadowbanning and admin “curation” is going to plague Lemmy going forward, mark my words. That’s why we need some neutral ground.

        • PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          1 year ago

          I made an account on sh.itjust.works because world was having some issues registering new users. Because of this small issue I ended up taking a deep dive into learning about the Fediverse. It’s such a cool concept and really easy to use once you familiarize yourself with it.

          It’s also awesome that instances can federate with one another, so communities can continue to grow! I was apprehensive of making the switch initially due to the presumption that it would require a steep learning curve, but I learned how to access, browse, and interact on lemmy in 15 minutes or less lol.

          I keep mentioning it, but the fediverse reminds me of my early days of browsing reddit back in the mid-late 2000s. Lemmy feels like home and I can’t wait to see it grow :)

          • Coelacanth@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Okay I was a chronic lurker on Reddit but seeing you here gives me hope for the Soccer community on this site, which has thus far been a huge gaping hole. I honestly haven’t used anything other than r/Soccer to keep up with football news in many years so I hope Lemmy can shoulder that burden sooner rather than later. It’s probably the one part of Reddit that I’m really struggling to replace and/or live without.

            • PoppinKREAM@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              1 year ago

              Hey o/

              Yea truth be told I still visit r/soccer and r/reddevils to catch up on football related news every morning/evening. The communities on Lemmy are still growing and while the more popular communities are very active, niche communities like sports will take some time.

              Check out the football community on Lemmy, it’s starting to get active. I’ve recently started posting too.

              I’m not sure how to link directly to a community, so here’s a link to one of my posts. You can click on the community and subscribe

          • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Oh hi, that’s a name I never thought I’d see again, good to see you’re here

      • PuffinMcGuffin@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Can you (or anyone else) explain the circumstances around them defederating? More specifically, why would they do that, and what exactly is their benefit?

        • HollowNotion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          My understanding for Beehaw specifically is that it was a temporary measure to guard against the huge influx of users, as well as a way to stop trolls from creating duplicate accounts from World (since it’s popular and has open registration). Defederating gives them time to figure some things out and scale up if they want to.

        • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          The moderation tools available in Lemmy currently are a bit lacking so it put too much burden on Beehaw staff to moderate users from instances that allow fully open signup. Beehaw was seeing a large influx of trolls signing up on open signup instances and causing a lot of problems over there which eventually pushed the matter. For those unaware, Beehaw prides itself on keeping a tight lid on tolls and negativity so it was really against their ethos to not be able to keep up with it.

          It’s worth noting that there is no hostility or anything between Beehaw and the other instance admins. Both sides admins have been openly posting about their discussions and both sides are looking forward to refederating as soon as the mod tools in Lemmy improve enough to do so.

        • XEL@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          .world doesn’t require as stringent verification and beehaw mods claimed that a lot of spam was coming from .world. I don’t know if that’s true, but that’s what they claimed.

          • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Someone dug into the mod logs and found four or five instances of lemmy.world accounts being moderated on Beehaw. That’s all it took for them to defederate

            • DMmeYourNudes@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              Beehaw will probably die if they want to defederate from any largr instance with open signups. This whole system won’t work without open signups because no one wants to go through an interview process to use a social media site. They’ll leave or just cave and go back to reddit.

    • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Make sure you throw him a dollar or two on patreon if you can. We don’t want this all to come crashing down around us or be loaded down by ads.

    • alongwaysgone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, the growth of world, ml, beehaw, and Lemmy in general over the last month is pretty incredible. I’m on five instances. And they’ve all grown incredibly.

    • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Kbin didn’t even exist a couple months ago. I can only imagine the pressure to get it polished and ready for the migration.

    • kill_dash_nine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’ll be very interesting to see how the scalability shakes out over the next several months and beyond and what sort of growing pains there end up being with a system like this growing, especially so quickly. I’m a new user here just regularly reminding myself to be patient when things aren’t always snappy.

  • Whatsupdude@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    1 year ago

    We all be going to Reddit and letting people know about the migration to Lemmy… And make sure to promote one of the 3rd party apps to the redditors. The best one I’ve tried so far is Connect for Lemmy on the Google play store.

  • Dr. Santa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    I did my part. By which I mean I made an account and made a single comment (well, two now.)

    Still hoping to find a good comparable app to Slide for Reddit. Liftoff for Lemmy has fairly similar comment layout at least.

    • Nanno@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Connect and Jerboa are also alright. I think i like Jerboa the most so far

      • Dr. Santa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        WefWef seemed pretty good. But wefwef being a web app just disappeared from my phone, along with a convention web app, after I restarted. Weird.

        I’ll look up your suggestions. Liftoff doesn’t appear to have an inbox right now. At least not one I didn’t see.

          • Dr. Santa@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, saw it on the homepage, though not getting notifications for it. Had to come back and manually check. Probably just a communication error, getting a lot of errors lol.

            Case in point: just got five+ "failed to post comment"s.

            Also don’t see where to edit comments. But also probably something I’m just overlooking because I’m still new to this software.

            Edit: just saw the three dots. Damn I’m blind.

        • tooting_lemmy@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          WefWef keeps stopping when I’m trying to scroll. Like every fourth finger swipe of scrolling it does nothing. I like the visuals of it though. Personally I use Jerboa.

      • geekworking@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Started with Connect and didn’t find anything lacking that would make me want go looking for something else. Figure I will stay with it until the former reddit apps complete their ports.

      • Dr. Santa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        It feels closer to it. I’m really looking forward to Slide for Lemmy to get completed.

        Feels like home.

        Still completely broken right now. Only version 0.0.2. can’t even access a “sublemmy” without it crashing. Good enough to browse the frontpage and look at posts. Nothing else for now.

        Using Connect at the moment. Bouncing between it and Liftoff.

  • hmancuso@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    I guess that’s because “World” is a pretty bold statement and suggests an expanse that can accommodate a truckload of migrants. Add to that the open signups and my natural aversion to smaller instances (I tend to think someone with a few users may feel tempted to pull the plug at any moment), and here we are. By the way, I have had a great experience with Connect for Lemmy - if anyone is interested.

  • zp42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    1 year ago

    Glad to see Refugees like myself finding a new home. I’d be interested in sporting some merchandise it some of the proceeds go back into covering costs etc…

    • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Understand the sentiment, but hey, in the meantime you could go old school and make some promo stuff yourself to sport if you’re crafty. It’d be even more in the spirit of this space than merch tbh!