Fediverse

Friendly reminder that lemmy is still being actively developed. There will be many performance improvements in the future, as well as UI and whatnot. Stick around, create content and engage with your communities.

I was using Bacon Reader for Android for the last 10 years. For me it was the only way of using Reddit. I'm now checking Lemmy. I hope we can build a vibrant community here. I'm not coming back to Reddit.

So what’s happening over at Reddit? I assume all is still well over there. But after ten plus years, I actually haven’t been over there since Apollo died because I’ve just been busy and scrolling here before bed instead of the old Reddit browser.

I assume it’s business as usual and it didn’t implode, but honestly it’s been like three days since I’ve been there and that’s probably one of my longer streaks without casually browsing at some point in the day.

I fuckin love this place

I feel it, can barely reply from all the errors being thrown.

I am one of those users.

Don't even feel the need to go back to reddit. This platform is going to take off.

Truly have no idea if this or other similar projects will succeed long-term, but I do think that any alternative puts much needed pressure on social media companies to stop sucking ass.

Here’s to hoping it keeps growing. Gonna need content other than beans though.

Nice growth, looks to be slowing down a little - I wonder how much is related to the poor performance last few days

With care and love we can build a new and better reddit

Hail Satan.

I actually don't on't mind the smaller user base on Lemmy at all.

First work day since shutdown, I survived without Reddit, I'm sure I can continue doing so. Lemmy has plenty of potential yet already "good enough" to take Reddit's place.

Any lemmy.world user who feels comfortable using the lemmy explorer to subscribe to communities via URL should heavily consider moving to a smaller instance and subscribing to everything they want. It'll be a much snappier experience, and will very slightly reduce lag for everyone else.

You can find instances by server location here (just change the software to Lemmy at the top), by user count here, or just look at the official instance list.

Seems like they aren’t handling the load well.

That’s great but 66.6%? Time to conspire!

Congrats Lemmy.world!

I originally was using an account at .world but it started to get really slow under the stress of all the new users.

So I've since switched (to lemmy.ca) and it's been really nice. However, when I look at this thread from my .world account I can see a lot more comments. I know there are issues with syncing between instances and so I'd prefer to use .world if/when it is more stable. This way I can avoid the syncing issues mostly.

In any case I'm happy for Lemmy. I have multiple accounts and will use them whenever necessary. I wish there was something that could sync community lists between accounts. It was a bit of a chore to sync my community subscriptions for my accounts.

It is important to distribute newly joining users evenly among different servers to enhance server performance and maintain decentralization

Cool now join a server that’s not crowded. Hit “all.”Enjoy Lemmy with all the same content with zero lag.

What happens if lemmy.world or any other instance goes down without notice? Then there'd be a void of communities for a while right, or do other instances keep backups of some sort? Thinking about this now that .world gets tons of attention.

That's great news! Lemmy is a great, if but a little buggy, replacement for Reddit. I'm sure the bugs will be ironed out in due time. I'm enjoying the federated community. The more the merrier!

Indeed. It makes sense it was laggy during the upscaling, but it's stabilized now and it's great to see how well Lemmy has grown. The other thing I've notes is development is currently proceeding at a frenzied pace, it feels like every few days a new feature is added, either in the main service or in the multitude of apps being developed.