• Striker@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    301·
    1 year ago

    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

    • Aer@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      202·
      1 year ago

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

    • Metallibus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year 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.

    • greendakota99@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

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

      • lightsecond@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          1 year ago

          My main gripe with ActivityPub is that the infrastructure basically replicates 1-to-1 across subscribed instances. It means that as lemmy grows, servers will require more and more storage to keep up. For now, it’s fine since we’re under a few TB of content on the platform.

          If lemmy were to be as popular as reddit, we’d reach the dozens if not hundreds of TB of storage required. Not everyone has the money to build such a homelab or rent data center servers of that caliber.

          ActivityPub in it’s current state is nothing but replicated centralization, not a full decentralized protocol. We’d probably need a different database system that handles cross region clustering and sharing to scale it up.

          • Baŝto@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            8 months ago

            If you don’t mirror everything locally, you can lose data when other instances go down. Decentralization just has high data costs, take a look at git or bitcoin. I just hope ActivityPup learned something from Diaspora, where small instances couldn’t handle the amount traffic comming from big instances.

            • Dogeek@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              8 months ago

              My point was that there is no need to replicate everything everywhere. If the data is replicated a cross 5 instances per region for instance, it’s enough for replication needs. If you self host lemmy and subscribes to large communities on your instance, you can quickly overload your server. We need activity pub to be more lightweight if we want smaller instances to thrive.

  • Cyber Yuki@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year 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.)

  • 0235@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Ah I see you work in my work places wage and bonus calculation department.

    • Zithero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      “We had a 2% reduction in profits this year guys, 😭”

      “The company lost money?”

      “What? Oh no! But we made 3 bn in profits last year and we only made 2.8bn this year… So to make up for the shortfall, we’ll be reducing 401k contributions.”

      “…didn’t the CEO get a 200million bonus-”

      “WE ALL NEED TO MAKE SACRIFICES!”

    • Aldrond@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Every capitalist: You did great, and we know all the prior meetings talked about record profits, but we just can’t afford to give you a bonus. Soooorryyyyyyyyy.

  • HereticHydra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

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

  • Hazdaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    As an outsider, please take these helpful suggestions:

    The logging-in process is messed up. For the longest time I couldn’t log into any of the mobile apps (even though on the desktop it worked fine). The error messages were mostly not helpful.

    Even now, I still get error messages that ask me to pick a language for some reason. This is after I’ve already typed up a comment and I am trying to post it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn’t, but you could see how it would be a PITA when on mobile and all you wanted to do was write a short response.

    Still no real idea what “instances” are and no idea if I am missing out on entire subs because I am on .world. No clue. Do people on .world only see this? 🤷

    The layout on the website is barely passable. The link to go see a comment that was posted for you is just in an awkward location. I’m almost never sure what sub a post is coming from because the name of the person, the language it is in, and some other stuff is all fairly indistinguishable. Like seriously, there has to be someone on the Lemmy team that has some kind of graphic design background who could pipe in and spice up the UI a little.

    There are random hangouts for seemingly no reason. Is it because of how much the Lemmy population has exploded over the last few weeks or problems with a link or what? Some feedback would be super helpful.

    Why so many subs (are they called subs here?) with zero content. Not even like old content… literally go there and nothing is posted. At all. That is not conducive to growing a sub. If there are squatters who came here and loaded up on a bunch of sub names just to say they have them, and are not doing anything with those subs, then take the name back. No one is going to post a comment to a sub with zero threads. This is only hurting the community.

  • Rick@thesimplecorner.orgEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I honestly was worried about our growth maybe 3 weeks ago… It seemed there was a boom and then sort of an exhale after that initial rush in early June. However I’m subbed to about 130 communities. My feed is nice and busy where I couldn’t even chance to see all the content. I can look through my sub list (LemmyTools addon plug) and catch up on some comms I missed in my feed. It’s going great now as we are seeing steadily more upvoted posts (in the ks) now. Memes are off the charts. Tech and News seems to be hot. Im not super stitious well, maybe a little situous but I think things are going well and seeing a good base here form.

    There will need to be some sort of stale/abandoned community cleanup or filter eventually though.

      • Rick@thesimplecorner.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Totally, I actually feel we are already passed that concern. I am seeing a pretty established base forming now. I think we screw to a certain demographic but that is OK by me. I for one am tired of all tired of corporate social media crap. So I’ll be here or somewhere like it but lemmy is a very viable platform already

  • heimchen@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    1 year 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.