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Where'd everybody go? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The participation seems way down recently. What did I miss?

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 20 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Yeah because first of all, content had to be spread out across 562826 different communities for no reason other than that reddit had lots of communities, after growing for many many years. It started with just a few.

Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world, and every new user was directed to sign up at Lemmy.world.

I guess a lot of people here are younger than me and didn't experience forums, but we had like 30 forum channels. That was enough to talk about anything at all. And I believe it's the same here, it would have been enough. And then all channels would have easy to find content.

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Then 99% of those were created on Lemmy.world,

The instance I’m a part of has had issues federating with Lemmy.world for a lot of months now and it sucks because that’s where a large part of the community congregated and so it’s where a lot of content exists.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://aussie.zone/post/14298464?scrollToComments=true

More comments on https://feddit.org/post/3524876

[–] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for sharing that! That’s a really good explanation for what’s causing it. I’d heard a few different parts to why it’s happening but that post makes it really understandable.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

This is something I've criticized also before. It's very bad for the Lemmy network to be so centralized, even if the intentions may have been good from the beginning.

Now, if Lemmy.world decides to not federate with your instance, you are on your own.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Good info, I just wish people would have listened in the beginning a year ago. There was a lot of mistakes being made back then that caused what we see now.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

We can still correct that