Ah well...
Se you guys on..
on...
uhh, Lemmy?
As an outsider, please take these helpful suggestions:
The logging-in process is messed up. For the longest time I couldn't log into any of the mobile apps (even though on the desktop it worked fine). The error messages were mostly not helpful.
Even now, I still get error messages that ask me to pick a language for some reason. This is after I've already typed up a comment and I am trying to post it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't, but you could see how it would be a PITA when on mobile and all you wanted to do was write a short response.
Still no real idea what "instances" are and no idea if I am missing out on entire subs because I am on .world. No clue. Do people on .world only see this? 🤷
The layout on the website is barely passable. The link to go see a comment that was posted for you is just in an awkward location. I'm almost never sure what sub a post is coming from because the name of the person, the language it is in, and some other stuff is all fairly indistinguishable. Like seriously, there has to be someone on the Lemmy team that has some kind of graphic design background who could pipe in and spice up the UI a little.
There are random hangouts for seemingly no reason. Is it because of how much the Lemmy population has exploded over the last few weeks or problems with a link or what? Some feedback would be super helpful.
Why so many subs (are they called subs here?) with zero content. Not even like old content... literally go there and nothing is posted. At all. That is not conducive to growing a sub. If there are squatters who came here and loaded up on a bunch of sub names just to say they have them, and are not doing anything with those subs, then take the name back. No one is going to post a comment to a sub with zero threads. This is only hurting the community.
R.I.P Lemmy, probably my fault 😢
Chill man. Even my activity is dropping now, but that's just me thinking that Lemmy will be self-sufficient while I read my books. It's true that Lemmy is not as addicting as reddit, but that's for the best. I've actually gotten into new hobbies whose communities I might eventually join here.
I honestly was worried about our growth maybe 3 weeks ago... It seemed there was a boom and then sort of an exhale after that initial rush in early June. However I'm subbed to about 130 communities. My feed is nice and busy where I couldn't even chance to see all the content. I can look through my sub list (LemmyTools addon plug) and catch up on some comms I missed in my feed. It's going great now as we are seeing steadily more upvoted posts (in the ks) now. Memes are off the charts. Tech and News seems to be hot. Im not super stitious well, maybe a little situous but I think things are going well and seeing a good base here form.
There will need to be some sort of stale/abandoned community cleanup or filter eventually though.
As a cheapskate selfhoster who can only afford a few gigabytes of storage, It may come to a point where 30GB would not be enough to host the entire post history of the lemmy fediverse once user activity rises, and only those with deep pockets would be able to host archives of lemmy posts, just like usenet servers.
I liked Lemmy a little bit more before the July 1st influx. Not because of the people, but because there is now more ‘popular’ content that has resulted in less niche content. I’ve subscribed to so many communities that I don’t even see comments from many of the smaller ones because the larger ones dominate the feed.
LOL this reminds me of the numerous news articles that kept saying how Mastodon wouldn't scale and how it would never take off. The most ridiculous one: "Mastodon is crumbling". (We're over 13 million users right now.)
Quality content over quantity
Aw man, and I just got here!
Ooh no!
Anyways....
Beans are killing lemmy stop beansss
So long and thanks for all the fish!
Well some people start communities but are not up to task. There should be a well developed rules/about community page. I have seen just create a community post links and do very little to build engagement.
People are gonna look and leave if a community has like 10 members a new thread with a few replies every two to three days and links.
When I get a little time I will be creating a community. Either way level of engagement will take time to build but lackadasial community creaters add to the build time.
if lemmy is dying, so does threads
I was playing Outer Worlds
It was fun while it lasted
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That's OK. Those are just people from the influx. Eventually it will stabilize and start growing again. Gradual growth is the best way to build upon a solid foundation.
I remember the good old 4chan days when every 3rd post was about how "this is the cancer that is killing /b/" ...
Which in hindsight was not wrong. It's a husk of what it was. I fought with many a /b/tard in the great Tumblr wars. It was remnant of a more wild age, before the summer posters, before the psyops.
well bye
Here’s my July comment. It’s been a struggle getting used to lemmy but it’s still pretty early and I think I’m soo mad at Reddit that I being a lurker have decided to be more active and post more. It might take close to an year or so for more posts to show up and fill the communities so be patient and cut them some slack.
as instances get overcrowded site slows which drives traffic to other instances. I could care less about collecting old posts. travel light, have fun
Commenting for the stats 📈
It was good while it lasted... 😢
I’d rather be part of a smaller niche community than anything else to be fair
Thank u/spez
That's it, I'm outta here
Eh, might just be all the bots getting removed.
Well, it was fun while it lasted
It's not dying but also not blooming.
Short it now!!
And here I am, I have just started to use Lemmy more
BUY tHe DiP y'all! This must be done. Never a better time to purchase more shares. Lol
Guess I'll have to find a hobby.
I vote mass exodus
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nope, I just joined today because lemmy website sucked until I found vger app
To everyone trying to figure out a cause or rationale, I'm fairly certain this is sarcasm. This is normal.
it likely could pretty quickly if all these really bad bugs persist. It seems a huge swath of things were fixed but for like a week it was unusable.
Literally ded gem. F.
growth has been amazing to watch on lemmy
Was fun while it lasted.
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Is lemmy.ml down now? 🤔
Test
RIP 🥀
lol
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Still.. barely any content outside meme communities.
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Hehehe... ButBut
It's been fun
I‘ll follow fellow Lemmings and will leave a comment from July 2023
When in doubt, zoom out!
Guess it’s back to Reddit then.
The battles are short but the war is long
nah bro that's a good thing... is it?
July comment incoming!
It was nice posting here, too bad I waisted all my posts here
😱
Fkin hell
"but but"
