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Calling an instance without users "awesome" is stretching it. Unfortunately, less than 10 users makes up a large majority, and those have very, very small commu

by tgv 3y ago

Calling an instance without users "awesome" is stretching it. Unfortunately, less than 10 users makes up a large majority, and those have very, very small communities.

rglullis 3y ago
You could have an instance that is not focused on having users, but instead just be the home of many communities of different topics and the have "awesome" moderators.
- tgv 3y ago
  One could, but the author clearly didn't check that. The number of users seems pretty much related to the amount of activity. Not very surprising. To verify, I've taken the top entry, lemmy.world, and looked at the 10 most recent posts, and they're within the last 10 minutes. One post per minute isn't awesome, but well. Then I took 10 of the 0 user instances, and lo and behold, one instance had one post, the rest zero. So the number of users does seem to predict activity (atm).
8organicbits 3y ago
Lemmy is federated. You can interact with other instances by design. Being on a small instance may even be better as it's less likely to be overloaded, which is a current issue with the largest instances. Running an instance of your own, for just yourself is a primary way to use federated services.
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Pet_Ant 3y ago
That is like saying an email provider with only 10 user accounts cannot be good. I mean there are concerns, but it's the connections that matter. ...that said I expect that the future is going to be much more based around whitelists because open federation means easy trolling/bots... but the current theory is to think of instances like email providers.
brabel 3y ago
I've joined lemmy.world and there seems to be some stuff going on there, but the only programming community with any traction seems to be Beehaw's: https://lemmy.world/c/programming@beehaw.org https://lemmy.world/c/programming@beehaw.org But that's still almost empty... I've been visiting for a week, and I think the posts I saw a week ago are still there on the first page, with just a couple new articles showing up every few days :( I am in desperate need for something to replace reddit.com/r/programming, if anyone has a hint where people are moving, would love to hear it (at least some reddits like /r/lisp are still going - but they never had a lot of traffic in the first place - still more than Lemmy).
- brabel 3y ago
  EDIT: looks like I am a victim of the defederation that happened... I only see comments made on my instance, lemmy.world, because Beehaw defederated lemmy.worlld... it's possible to see there's many more comments by going to lemmy.one instead. Decentralization is already causing fragmentation and echo chambers, as everyone is learning the hard way... unfortunately.

by tgv 3y ago

Calling an instance without users "awesome" is stretching it. Unfortunately, less than 10 users makes up a large majority, and those have very, very small communities.

rglullis 3y ago

You could have an instance that is not focused on having users, but instead just be the home of many communities of different topics and the have "awesome" moderators.

tgv 3y ago
One could, but the author clearly didn't check that. The number of users seems pretty much related to the amount of activity. Not very surprising. To verify, I've taken the top entry, lemmy.world, and looked at the 10 most recent posts, and they're within the last 10 minutes. One post per minute isn't awesome, but well. Then I took 10 of the 0 user instances, and lo and behold, one instance had one post, the rest zero. So the number of users does seem to predict activity (atm).

8organicbits 3y ago

Lemmy is federated. You can interact with other instances by design. Being on a small instance may even be better as it's less likely to be overloaded, which is a current issue with the largest instances. Running an instance of your own, for just yourself is a primary way to use federated services.

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Pet_Ant 3y ago

That is like saying an email provider with only 10 user accounts cannot be good. I mean there are concerns, but it's the connections that matter. ...that said I expect that the future is going to be much more based around whitelists because open federation means easy trolling/bots... but the current theory is to think of instances like email providers.

brabel 3y ago

I've joined lemmy.world and there seems to be some stuff going on there, but the only programming community with any traction seems to be Beehaw's: https://lemmy.world/c/programming@beehaw.org https://lemmy.world/c/programming@beehaw.org But that's still almost empty... I've been visiting for a week, and I think the posts I saw a week ago are still there on the first page, with just a couple new articles showing up every few days :( I am in desperate need for something to replace reddit.com/r/programming, if anyone has a hint where people are moving, would love to hear it (at least some reddits like /r/lisp are still going - but they never had a lot of traffic in the first place - still more than Lemmy).

brabel 3y ago
EDIT: looks like I am a victim of the defederation that happened... I only see comments made on my instance, lemmy.world, because Beehaw defederated lemmy.worlld... it's possible to see there's many more comments by going to lemmy.one instead. Decentralization is already causing fragmentation and echo chambers, as everyone is learning the hard way... unfortunately.