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For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.
How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
Given the timeouts and load issues I've had on lemmy.ml today... Mildly concerned.
I'm part of the problem though, and really hopeful it goes well! Seems like the solution to the Giant Network problem we see at Reddit, Twitter, FB, etc
Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works can help support the load.
I went from Digg to Reddit and now I'm looking for a new home. I'm really liking what I'm seeing here!
Agreed, it feels really similar to Reddit but in better :)
Exciting times ahead :)
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.
I just hope that it will be more distributed than Matrix and not everyone registers on lemmy.ml (matrix.org in case of matrix) so the decentralization works for real here instead of 90% (exaggerating, don't know the numbers) of the user base sitting on one instance :)
I just signed up for my local one, I see that is lemmy.ml.
That'll do for now. I will look around for alternatives once I got used to the whole federated thing more.
I am one of those influx.
I'm realllllly just hoping we don't choke the "main" instances completely to death before the lemmy backend can have some developer hours dumped into it to support better per-instance horizontal scaling.
It desperately needs lower friction remote community subscribing and a user migration workflow between instances.
I'm happy to have influxed all over. Its been both welcoming and chill.
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Joined Lemmy because of permanent suspension from the Snoosite for harassment, which I clearly didn't commit at that time.
I would love for the federated model to become a gold standard for how successful platforms ought to be run.
An idea so old is new again. The Internet and it's early services (Usenet, email, IRC, etc.) we're all designed from the start to be decentralized. After 20+ years of people consolidating into centrally-controlled mega platforms, I'm happy to see things coming full circle.