https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active
9 of the top 10 are LW
LW delay with Aussie.zone is now at 4 days : https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40460535?scrollToComments=true
Wow, didn’t know about that delay and the technical reasons behind it. That’s wild!
Serious question: is Lemmy.world a problem if it gets big?
We want Lemmy to be successful. Users join and they’re bound to concentrate in an instance that looks like it is the biggest (that’s where I would sign up as a newbie). Other instance content still is consumable and interactable. Is this a problem?
Someone on Lemmy told me this and it really stuck with me even though I always believed it even if I couldn’t put it into words.
Having only one good solution means you’re only one good solution away from having no good solutions at all. That person wrote it more succinctly however, I’m worse at this :p
True ideally…but I would think having people on Lemmy is the main priority. Having a diversified Lemmy is secondary. If Lemmy.world pulls some shit then getting people to change instance shouldn’t be as difficult as getting people to change platform.
Lemmy competes against single solutions like Reddit. It’s still better to have an overpopulated Lemmy.world rather than Reddit.
Non-diversified Lemmy poses similar risks Reddit did even if to a lesser extent. I know we won’t stop it but people like Blaze do a great job by linking only non-LW instances when promoting Lemmy and we should all make a conscious effort to spread out as much as possible. LW will probably end up as a Reddit clone in terms of vibes based on the type of people that gravitate towards it and that’s not everyone’s cup of tea either.
Similarly if everyone is relying on just Lemmy and not piefed and mbin in the even Lemmy goes down getting a new one running takes more time.
I agree although I’m not sure Piefed and Mbin are mature enough for us to recommend to newbies. Piefed might get apps soon so that’s a huge a boon but Mbin seems stuck in a rut a bit.
Using interstellar ATM and Lemmy and mbin seem great and piefed works when you use their instance*.
*still a few issues like lack of notifications and also being stuck to one instanc3 at least for now.
I believe the situation on iOS is a bit worse and that’s still half of the users overall probably so probably best to check that first. Then again if I was someone older (kind of am) and heard there’s no iOS app for something I was joining I’d be worried how serious it is.
Hopefully the lemmy devs eventually add a way to migrate accounts. I feel like that would solve the biggest risk of having such a big instance.
Mastodon still doesn’t allow accounts import, so I wouldn’t hold my breath
Mastodon currently does not support importing posts or media due to technical limitations
Yeah, because it’ll centralise the fediverse more. Although I think if Lemmy.world was bought by Elon Musk tomorrow and turned off federation, the fediverse would survive. In fact, I reckon a large amount of people would move off of Lemmy.world due to the principal of federation.
Was previously kbin.social and moved to lemmy.world for a better experience. Can confirm I would move off if .world ever posed an huge issue even outside of your example.
It’s just that we should avoid putting all our fruit into one basket. Lemmy.world has some problematic policies and lack of moderation on bigotry.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4619
I think, for the health of the fediverse, this is a really important issue.
Blocking LW is self care.
In a perfect world the lemmy communities would be neatly diversified onto the 571 instances with each holding the main 51 communities.
