Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users - eviltoast

Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy is having an identity crisis of sorts. It was built to be decentralized yet we (users) seem to want to centralize everything and we all go to a few of the largest instances.

    Because decentralization, at least as it is now, runs counter to what people are looking for in a social media platform; mainly discoverability.

    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      Does it though? My instance has very little locally, but if I browse ‘All’ it really isn’t any different than being on any other instance, even a big one.

      • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        You are only shown what your server has stored. Your server only stores what people of your instance have subscribed to. If you visit bogger instances, they all have different Hot feeds, because each server pulls different content. There is no one way to see what is going on in all of the fediverse. You are only ever shown a part.

        • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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          1 year ago

          Sure but above a certain user count, your instance will usually have at least one subscriber to just about every active community. (I may have used a bot to help this process…)