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Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source
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?
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.
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”
There's also people that create multiple accounts in different instances and end up using just one.
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.
It's this plus uptime. Both come down to usability. Nobody wants to use a product that is confusing or unreliable.
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'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.
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.
I alternate between beehaw and lemmy.ca, and this way I have almost no downtime, if lemmy.ca goes down (it does so very rarely) , I just switch to the beehaw temporarily to lurk
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
For the last month and a half, I have not used reddit at all. Lemmy has most of the communities that I was a part of.
But I get that, some niche subreddits still don't have communities here on lemmy. A few of my friends, stopped using lemmy because it didn't have the subs they were active in.
I'm on the fence about sticking around. I don't see myself going back to Reddit, so I'll probably just leave and be productive.
A big issue was loosing all the .ml lemmy instances. I lost mine and had to create a new account. lemmy.ml is the only one that's still up.
It’s normal. Chill. Not like Threads that lost 80% of its active users.
Lemmy has already hit equilibrium as far as I'm concerned if your on lemmy world I suggest changing instances my instance midwest.social was down alot in the beginning when lemmy was getting alot of new sign ups but has since then been updated a few times and been rock solid since now it only occasionally goes down for maintenance
I hopped instances a couple of times (and it's a little annoying that there is no simple way to migrate subscriptions), but so far I'm happy with sh.itjust.works because that's what it does. I also feel like it defederelizes less aggressively than other instances, with some I was almost surprised by all the content that I couldn't access.
Some dropoff after initial hype is normal. Now we just continue as usual until reddit pisses people off again.
“Chart go down” isn’t necessarily bad.
For example, this could be due to general disinterest, or it could be from troll removal/defederation too, no?
Could be something to do with frequent outages. Every now and then I will have error jump out. I then give up for a day and then try using tomorrow.
Thats the case for most new platforms you get a surge of users and then some titer off and stop using the platform. But don't look at the small dip look at the massive growth compared to a few months ago.
Once Boost for Lemmy releases, 10, 000% growth will occur over the coming weeks afterward 😉 (IYKYK)
Sites like reddit, Instagram, and twitter make the cognitive effort to go from signing up to using the app as low as possible. The users' experience is considered from before they even have an account. They make sure you don't ever see a blank page or feel like you're battling the app to find content.
Lemmy actively puts roadblocks in the way. Server choices, the hoops you need to jump though for server memberships, and highly fragmented communities all but ensure that people will face issues when signing up.
Sadly, a lot of users here feel that because they had to overcome them, so should everyone else. Until that changes then the self-defeating cycle will continue.
It needs a solid app like Apollo was for Reddit to help it keep active users.
I feel like it's one small community instead of an interconnected larger one, unfortunately.
What are people saying to be calm for? Nobody way raising alarm
I've been wondering what Lemmy was like until Jun 2023. Quite cozy I guess.
I don't understand why people have expectations from a young platform like it's supposed to be the new reddit/facebook all of a sudden. I lived through the digg->reddit move and believe me, it was worse than what we see on lemmy sometimes. Let it grow and it will have a chance. Offer help when you think some communities aren't correctly moderated or when you think you have better ideas. People usually will try to help (not all the time).