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Just thought this was kind of neat. Our little instance, all grown up! @sunaurus@lemm.ee, you're famous! πŸ˜‚

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nice find! They're definitely not wrong about the growing pains, we are dealing with some very raw software here still.

I found this bit quite funny, though:

All in all, Lemmy comes across as what a utopian Reddit should be. Free of corporate control, with the ability to run your instances. But unless something changes dramatically, it’ll suffer the same fate as Mastodon or Bluesky.

If Lemmy manages to reach Mastodon's level, then that's pretty much an absolute win, no? I'm not sure where the suffering is in that scenario πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed! Not entirely sure what the concern is. Many of us have already switched entirely from Twitter to mastodon so if Lemmy can have its own β€œMastodon moment”, that is a huge win! Maybe he’s referring to the fragmentation of platforms? (Ie mastodon and blue sky, lemmy and kbin, etc)?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, but fragmentation of platforms is fine in this case, because that doesn't necessarily mean fragmentation of content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly, agreed. Wonder if the author missed the memo!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In fact I am quite grateful at kbin because it means more people join because many are not wanting to join an unreddit-like UI or a piece of software owned by communists or other problems they find. Kbin is the second door you open in lemmy promotion and many bite and join 😁

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tell you, I looked at mastodon a couple of years ago, and left it almost untouched and very confused. Lemmy looks a bit better, but is still not great. I think if we want to go mainstream, we should really focus more on "join lemmy" instead of "run lemmy yourself", but everyone and every admin has a different opinion, so it's going to take a while.

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

Mastodon is extremely active. Even if you aren't there, it's pretty big. Nonetheless, you are right that shit needs to look very neat for mass adoption to come. Buuuut, from 1k to 240k in like 10 days is very good still :)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

"suffer the same fate as Mastodon"? You mean... manage to slowly but steadily grow even in the face of an existing giant?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's neat but also I'm kind of angry at the "review" of Lemmy on there. Like, what exactly do you expect this brand new thing with communities created less than a week ago to do??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the reviewer definitely isn't the smartest of the lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait, is the lemmy code really just weeks old? I thought it was boiling for some months now.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, looking at the GitHub repo, it's been worked on (by 2 people) since 2019. But I was referring to the communities as being new - the author laments that he can't find his favorite subreddits, active and useful.

I'd say the software is quite young at this point. They haven't even gotten to a 1.0 release yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, ok that makes sense.

Can't wait for 1.0

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i agree, for how long it is, it is surprisingly useless article...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Very Nice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Nice article! And yeah, Lemmy software is still very unpolished but i would argue that it does not matter if you look at how many people are already trying it out anyway!

Maybe something else will come along, but for now i'm really enjoying finding all these Lemmy instances and different communities. Hopefully big tech largely stays out of the Fediverse, i'm not interested in seeing the ecosystem gobbled up by those giants again.