• Xilly@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      You are correct and Lemmy.World and others will experience growing pains and will have their own share of issues but the positive of this is that more users means more content.

    • Teeks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      You are correct, but it at least shows that we are attracting more users (albeit, that doesn’t mean quality).

      I believe its a positive thing though, as it shows that the “normies” are seriously considering alternatives; outside of us niche, nerds here for the tech and the anti-corpo mindset.

      • Thesongthatneverends@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        I am decidedly not a niche nerd here for tech reasons. I just got pretty fed up with Reddit and it’s ridiculousness. I’m a 40 year old mom just here to cruise around the internet and find interesting things. So you are correct - the “normies” are starting to look for alternatives!

      • go_spurs_go@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        Just showed up here. We’ll see how long I stay, but hoping this will be my social media fix each morning. If there are enough folks who feel the same, it will be.

        • XYZinferno@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’ve been using it for about a week now, and it already is.

          Of course, there’s a handful of subreddits that I miss and feel the urge to go back to every now and then, but I realize that there is enough content on Lemmy to satisfy me during my coffee breaks. And it’s enough to keep me from going back.

          • TrontheTechie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            Same here. I go to Reddit for a specific thing and forget I’m not on lemmy, see some promoted post or whatever, and wonder who would even dare post that shit here, then remember and switch back.

            It’s been nice to be able to reclaim yet another part of my life from advertisements and incessant tracking.

      • MicroWave@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Well said. A month ago, I couldn’t even imagine leaving reddit because there was hardly a viable alternative.

  • SolDaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Hello All, First time poster here. I would just like to say that i tried signing up for beehaw.org but they have some kind of purity test that reminds me of Reddit. Don’t ever sign up for beehaw, that is going to be one hell of a drama filled instance.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Ironically all of the drama and complaining seems to be coming from instances outside of Beehaw, being dramatic and complaining about Beehaw. The content there is actually good.

      • gila@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Really it’s just drama caused by the platform not maturing yet. Beehaw’s reasons behind defederating from large instances like lemmy.world are valid, but it’s not like other instances made them do it. It’s a choice they made to be able to create the space they want in lieu of proper mod tools. Hope they realise it won’t be an overnight fix, and the longer they stick to their guns the greater the risk of their communities fizzling out, which would be a shame as I agree they are some of the best.

    • indy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I tried to sign up for beehaw… they rejected my application. Glad they did, I really enjoy lemmy.world!

      • TheCookieButter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I wrote 2 short paragraphs for the Beehaw entry and a week later was denied. By that point I was already on Lemmy.World.

        I really don’t know what else they wanted me to say to be honest. I’d be interested in seeing some accepted applications but seems excessive.

          • Beliriel@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Same for me. The only thing beehaw now has that interests me is the technology community, which seems fairly active. Other than that it died for me there. For what? Because they couldn’t deal with a few trolls? And they want their own walled garden for site applications?

      • JujuT@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Exactly! Or a waitlist like lemmy.ml. There’s probably going to be some issues with so many people in this instance, but it’s better than an echo chamber.

        • SolDaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          Bitter about what? Beehaw is literally running a purity test in order to let you sign up. You sound much more bitter for me telling the truth than i am.

    • brezhnervous@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      However is been just “spinning” on yrying to sign up for over a week for me…so I ended up going with lemm.ee instead

  • SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    That’s great and imma let you finish but remember that decentralization is strength on the fediverse. Join or create other instances, join or create communities on other instances, thats our strength.

    On the fediverse, instances come and go. I’ve seen big instances go down either permanently or temporarily, and ive also seen big communities decide they’re turning off federation. The only way to be safe from that is to decentralize, so if something happens there’s still something worth doing on the fediverse.

    Besides that though, congratulations lemmy.world, I love to see the thrediverse Renaissance we’re in, and nothing but love for the folks running this instance and the folks participating on it.

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I kind of feel we’re riding the sweet spot on size right now. Seems like a solid amount of content but we’ve not had so many new users that there’s been any sudden cultural shift.

    • Omgarm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Probably a couple hundred dedicated posters. So many 196 memes on my feed and I don’t even know what 196 stands for.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        196 is the apartment of awesome!

        Welcome to the party!

        Share something while you’re here it’s the rule.

        We’ve got Blahaj, memes, LGBTQ+, and no tankies.

        We recently had to change venue due to reddit shenanigans, but the party don’t stop until it all stops

  • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I joined world because it was the little one, with like 100 active users according to the stats on the signup page. Hmph.

      • TeaHands@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        The idea was to pick a smaller one to spread the load around and stop any one instance (at the time it looked like probably Beehaw or .ml) getting so big it became a “default” and thus accidentally centralising things and defeating the whole purpose of being here.

        I guess a lot of people had the same idea at roughly the same time as me though lol, and now we’re stuck with some serious unforseen federation issues due to sheer size. Therewasanattempt.

        • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I think I read about future plans for being able to move an account to a different instance? I don’t know if that’s a possibility but I would be willing to move to keep things spread out, or create a new account if it was necessary. I know a lot of people wouldn’t want that hassle but I’m glad to have a forum alternative to reddit and probably enough people feel that way to help make this work well into the future.

    • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I joined lemmy.world on June 7th before it started to blow up. Crazy how much it has changed in 19 days.

  • egeres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s awesome to see the growth, but as a small question, why don’t all the instances upgrade to version 0.18? Maybe that version isn’t stable enough?

    • kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      0.18 removed checks and balances to limit bot signups. lemmy.world won’t upgrade until this is in place.

      • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Yep, so now I need to put up with Jerboa whining at me every time I log in. Just the latest in what’s likely to be a long line of teething problems. It’s really unfortunate that the same guy is one of the primary devs of both the Lemmy server and the android client, as it allows him to use one to put pressure on the other. He could E.G. make it so Jerboa refuses to connect to any instance that refuses to update rather than just displaying an annoying dialog like it currently does.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      To clarify the vague “checks and balances” statement that you were given, it was the captcha feature. It will be added back in 0.18.1

  • Negative_Pair_5694@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    Also lemmy.world is extremely slow in pushing out messages to other instances, if at all. So leading the pack is not necessarily the best thing until you figure out scaling.

    • UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I’ve been missing a ton of comment replies from lemmy.world and it’s frustrating. I am wondering if it’s because they’re still on 0.17.4 instead of 0.18.

      • NebLem@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 years ago

        Yeah I think that’s the main issue. Hopefully 18.1 can be released soon so they can upgrade too.

    • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, they should really consider not accepting new users until that is figured out, honestly. There are plenty of servers out there that people can join at this point. Too much centralization in a decentralized system for my liking regardless of instance scaling.

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Thwe number #1 uswer of Lemm Worlkd is horses who are forcesd to horse by peple who rider horses in HoirseWOrld.,HELOM