There is going to be an equilibrium between the number of users and the number of instances. At the moment, with 22 instances with more than 300 monthly active users, we are doing okay.
Blaze
joined 3 months ago
Did you open the thread?
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Hello,
I see you are on lemmy.one, do you know that your instance admin seems to have been missing for the last few months?
You keep asking questions though… so I kept answering them:-P. I feel like we got some addditional clarity on your only focusing on the top 20 instances.
For me, writing things such as "many instances are having federation issues with LW' lacks nuance, and people less aware of the context could just read this with "well, the whole thing does not work anyway, I'll just quit this place", which is probably not the message we want to convey.
That's why I focus on the top 20, because that's where the vast majority of the userbase is, and in those instances, only aussie.zone really experiences federation issues due to LW size (pg.dev is a different issue, it's their own database that is corrupted)
Though for myself, the longer this goes on the less faith I have that it will ever be fixed whilst remaining dependent upon the Lemmy.ml + lemmygrad.ml admins & devs to help accomplish the goals of bringing in more mainstream normies from the Western civilization that they so abhor and constantly ridicule. Why should they? They themselves do not want that. It is a harsh truth but we are on their platform, and that’s that. We will receive what they deign to offer. Which is why I am trying now to help PieFed thrive, despite how far behind it is, and it would be great to see Sublinks arrive as well.
That's probably the consensus among the community. But as we all know, there are only so many people interested in developing Lemmy alternatives.
About the lemm.ee vs lemmy.cafe choice for instance suggestion, would you like to open a thread on https://piefed.social/c/fedigrow@lemm.ee ? That way we can have more people voicing their opinions on the matter.
I have not reached out to ST.website, and anyway it seems besides the point b/c as of now they have caught up.
They haven't caught up, their last post on that community is from 13 hours ago
There were quite a few since then
They are still behind from quite some time:
Not sure they are aware, there aren't any meta posts about this, and due to the size of the instance (196 monthly active users), they might not have noticed.
You can try to reach out to @nieceandtows@programming.dev. I had a chat with them a while ago about them taking over that community, they were quite nice. They might be okay with at least promote yours there.
Great initiative ! Probably worth sharing on !personalfinance@lemmy.ml for people interested in switching
That would be nice
Alright.
To come back to your initial question, !casualconversation@lemm.ee is a very generic community, has a hobbies weekly thread, so maybe that's a start.
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