How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
As a newbie, I hope the software can catch up to the needs quickly.
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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Guys, what are you on about.
It's very clear that Lemmy is dead on arrival.
Don't you see it?
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That user does have a point. The higher a barrier to entry the less people you are going to get.
Though there is something to be said for the selection of people that get filtered out. While I appreciate large communities because of the variety of view points available, the quality increasing due to a barrier of entry has advantages too.
As a side note, thanks for writing up guides for people!
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That person is saying it like it's a bad thing that signing up isn't brain-dead.
What caused that spike around October 2022?
Man, this reddit BS is getting to me. First thing I thought of when I read your comment was, "what happened in reddit last October?" 😐
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Je trouve ça incroyable, je me suis inscrit ya à peine une semaine et les postes avaient genre 50-100 upvote max et la ça touche les 800. Puis c'est sympa de voir d'avantage de contenu.
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I’m super excited for the potential this has. Happy to be here and hoping to help build a great online community with you all!
Whilst I’m somewhat sad to be here (Reddit has eaten up a significant portion of my time over the past 10+ years), I’m happy to be learning new things and exploring a new way of doing things.
I honestly thought this would reduce my screen time as Reddit is on the top of the list. But here I am at Lemmy lol.
It's cool The reason why I even joined lemmy is that the administration here allow magnet links
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Man, I been waiting for this for years. I thought with the way Mastodon grew it'd eventually grow into a wider growth among the fediverse but it seems to happen in fits and starts. Glad to see people are federating too and not all dumping into just the mainline instance.
Next I'd like to see major names move off YouTube and Twitch onto decentralized platforms but that's gonna take much more to get there, unfortunately.
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I think we really need to address the scaling issue, one option could be to use clichhouse instead of postgres
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Lemmy go brrrrr
it's cool
I'm not new to Lemmy, I've hung around here on and off a couple times. My biggest complaint about it for a long time was that many of the subs I was interested in were just dead or didnt exist on lemmy. With the new influx of users, I imagine that's going to change, even if it does take a couple more years.
The future of Lemmy is looking very promising :)
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A nice website for looking for servers, platforms, and user numbers over time is: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Also handy for getting a picture of how many lemmy servers there are and how big they are.
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You know, it just occured to me yesterday that there might be a federated version of reddit. Looked it up and I was pleasantly surprised to see it's actually picking up a lot of users. Now if we could see a mobile app as polished as rif is fun, I'll be extremely happy. Move over reddit, let's go lemmy!
Just wondering though, how scalable is lemmy? What kind of hardware/connection would you need to host your own instance?
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Honestly this platform is welcoming & people are dignified through conversations. Also informative.
Joined Lemmy because of permanent suspension from the Snoosite for harassment, which I clearly didn't commit at that time.
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I'm happy for users to join the federated alternative!
Ya love to see it.