When reddit goes dark on Monday, there will be a horde of people looking for an alternative. When the APIs go dark at the end of the month, another horde will come. When /u/spez says just about anything, it’ll happen again. What can we do to prep here for that? How can we attract good moderators to moderate communities here?

Just listing things I noticed from the twitter/mastodon migration:

  • Mastodon had a few thousand signups per hour during the peak times.
  • Having a single instance (or even a small number) really simplifies the signup process. How can we scale lemmy.ml and other big instances now to prep for Monday?
  • I’m seeing communities already pop up (/c/earthporn, /c/photography and my favorite /c/jeep). If we can keep content flowing through some of the big communities, it’ll help people come back on Tuesday. (On a Sunday night at 7pm MDT, the backend on lemmy.ml is getting crushed and posting is haphazardly working for me…)
  • A good intro doc would help folks get up to speed faster (this is how lemmy/fediverse works, he’s a list of mobile apps you can use, here’s how to sign up on patreon… etc).

Scaling lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, and lemmy.one (those are the ones mentioned in the pinned post for “joining”) is probably the biggest priority. If owners of these instances need money to pay for server fees, expertise with server migrations, deployments, scaling, dev work, etc, they really need to communicate.

The proverbial “call to arms” would be appropriate.

We’ve got lots of super nerdy folks here that can donate time/money. Personally, I’m not sure how I can help right now. (Currently subbed on Patreon, but that’s it).

    • BikerJared@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’m super new to this and still trying to learn stuff. Looks like folks can pin posts to the instance. Something like a “New to Lemmy? Start Here.” kind of post would be helpful. Right now, I just saw the “lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead” and wondered if I was in the wrong place.

      • olivebuffalo@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 year ago

        yeah that post is probably the wrong post to have pinned because it’s definitely a weird welcome message

        • BikerJared@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Hard to say – so far on lemmy.ml, when the backend is overload, I can get pages to load (presumably from cache) but actions I take to change things (sign in, post comments or content, etc) result in an eternal “spinny wheel”.