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What are some valid criticisms of Lemmy do you hear from people who tried out the platform? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/asklemmy

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Let’s compose a list of the all shortcomings so that we can address them and eventually hit 100k mau.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Which instances would you put into this pool besides lemm.ee and lemmy.zip?

lemmy.world is too large
sh.itjust.works is a non neutral name (most people probably won't mind, but some others might be deterred)
beehaw.org is behind and deferated
lemmy.dbzer0.com andn discuss.tchncs.de have a name that can be hard to remember
programming.dev is topic-oriented
lemmy.ca, feddit.nl, feddit.org and sopuli.xyz are country/language-oriented
lemmy.blahaj.zone is queer-oriented, not sure they want people who don't support queer people to join
other instances are probably not busy enough to have all the communities subscribed

https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/ filtered by MAU

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm definitely not the one to ask.

[–] jimmycrackcrack 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I guess another problem is, larger instances are more likely to be reliably up, if you randomly signed people up to a smaller instance running in someone's bedroom thant they switch off at night then that user's experience is going to be terrible, but if you combat this by only having large instances in that pool then the large instances get larger and smaller instances will essentially freeze at their current size because the main way of signing up would become this portal that assigns you to instances rather than specifically joining an instance. It might encourage the fediverse to become considerably less federated and a lot more centralised.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.