Lemmy.world has been down a lot, I’ve been trying to use it but half the times I’ve logged on it’s been down. So that might be part of it?
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Having Sync default to Lemmy.world seems like a huge mistake to me. Poor Ruud
Between lemmy.world and sync having issues I almost went on reddit. Then I remembered this is the fediverse, jerboa and lemm.ee exist and I’m back and more active than ever.
I think it’s mostly lemmy.world issue, since (for some reason) is Sync’s default, instead of suggesting smaller instances.
Don’t you have an account on another instance? Lemmy.world was down a bit that one time. Lemmy.ca was down once briefly for me due to site maintenance.
What are the best instances to have an account? I’m new to lemmy and just have lemmy world.
I have a second account on lemdro.id. It’s smaller and mostly android focused but its my main account most days. If world is having issues I don’t even think about it I just switch over 😂
I made a second account on lemm.ee - it’s big so has all the connections you could need and has amazing uptime.
Think it depends on things like your interests and at this point in time the uptime associated with said instance.
Is there a way to export and import subscriptions between accounts?
Lemmy.ml but same problems there. I haven’t had time/energy to make another one and subscribe to everything again.
For real.
I’m not sure why they’re not using elastic servers. Maybe because of the cost. Idk how Lemmy server dudes get their money, but it can be expensive running a server with 5-7 million visitors per month.
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?
I would have thought votes would count as a unique interaction to count towards being active
A stat for logged in users would be nice.
Yeah same, well here’s my active status for the month.
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.
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.
What would be better is if similar Lemmy communities could, by mutual agreement, “federate” so that all posts show up regardless of which community someone is viewing. So if you were looking at lemmy.world/c/technology, you’d also see posts lemmy.ml/c/technology if they “federated” (probably a better term to use to avoid confusion with the fediverse in general, but that’s the one that came to mind).
It might be a good feature/option of a frontend to automatically aggregate same-name communities across federated servers. Bogus actors would either be downvoted or defederated off the feed.
Lemmy pretty much just needs tags. Like you can mark your different “technology” communities with the tag “technology” and a user can subscribe to this tag to view all posts from whatever communities have this tag (and they don’t have to call themselves strictly just “technology”)
Something like that I would imagine so no direct interaction between communities required.
It’s this plus uptime. Both come down to usability. Nobody wants to use a product that is confusing or unreliable.
Only Lemmy.world really has issues with uptime
Yeah, Lemmy excels at both those things.
can’t maintain 90% uptime
why are we losing users?
I am not leaving unlesa somehow reddit pays me to go back to it. I am a man of conviction. I went back just because i got a notification of someone replying. Other than that, that’s it. I am staying here whether this takes off or not
I believe a lot of the new users’ influx was knee-jerk reaction towards it. Then people calmed down and went back to their old habits, leaving the fediverse with millions of dead accounts.
I enjoyed being a mod to a helpful community tho - but no, I’m no longer working for free so that spez can shine in the stock market: that’s exactly who I’m not, exactly against all my values.
The internet has changed so much.
Instance checks out :p
I’ve never had any downtime on my instance. Lemmy.world is under a lot of strain because it’s the largest, Sync has decided sign-ups should go there by default, and it gets the occasional DDoS attack.
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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.
I’m sticking with it for now. Reddit can piss off. The Spez shit was just the last straw for me after a lot of other disappointing shit in recent times.
Same. That plus the constant lying. They always remove something and then say “we’re working on something better” and that’s the last you ever hear of it. They’re disgusting liars.
Losing active users is normal. Same thing happened on mastodon over the years. A wave of people would join, then slowly leave again. Many of them would stick though.
Lemmy is incredibly active imo ^^
Dude I was away on vacation chill. :-)
How dare you. Do you want reddit to win?? /s
It’ll hit equilibrium eventually. Not like this is something unusual for a platform that’s making the rounds as the new and exciting thing.
My biggest issue is that at least two out of three times I go to browse/post/comment on lemmy.world, the server is down. I have no clue the actual up time, maybe I am just unlucky. But I am considering migrating my main account to another server.
My alt’s server has never experienced this much issue. Hopefully the devs add a migrate function.
That’s what’s stopped me commenting too, Jerboa allows me to type out a whole comment then I lose it when I got post if the server is down. I am Australian though and recently learnt that the LW team have no-one who lives in this timezone so I can hardly blame em!
Might as well post here as my first one. Hi, Lemmy. :)
Yo, there’s two of us!
Welcome aboard!
Because you like numbers i reply. Now it’s going up by one active user
This comment, I felt a call to it, like I need to comment: now by two active users.
And my axe
Me too!
What’s taters precious?
I’m doing my part!
I’m mostly a lurker and rarely comment or post
Make it three!
It’s summer, I’ve been doing stuff. Sorry for not being active.
Numbers good
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.
I just swap between lemmy.world and lemm.ee whenever one of them goes down. They’re the first two options on the app I use lol
Lol! Same here. Solid strategy that works.
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.
