this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2023
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Excuse my ignorance, but can Lemmy and the others handle a Reddit exodus?
Beehaw is already having troubles, guess instances have to ramp up their capacity in their near future
Yeah Beehaw seems to have been removed from the 'Join a Server' page. I tried maybe 15 times to join Lemmy.ml as well. Honestly hoping these are just small bumps in the road, so it's easier for new users to join!
They should really have on the join lemmy server a guided wizard, like what are you interested in, and then it should basically give them server to join and a "Or I'll choose my own". But then you still have the "Wait I thought I was signing up for lemmy, not lemmy.foo.bar.baz issue. Decentralized is great, but we need a bit of centralization to help onboarding.
Definitely! There needs to be some improvements to user onboarding, it's always one of the biggest painpoints with decentralized platforms.
I run my own Fediverse Instances.
Friendica, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Peertube...
Based on their funding post a few days ago, they're on a digital ocean droplet that costs $18/month or something, so there's plenty of room to scale that up. Whether or not they can afford it or get enough donations to keep it up is debatable. Point is the hosting requirements are fairly low.
I'm another reddit refugee and came just yesterday. I'm worried about happening the same that happened with koo when a lot of people migrated from twitter. They had to spend a lot into new resources, and expected a huge growth, but it turned out to be more of a temporary spike than anything. The majority of people already went back to twitter.
But at least for me, I'm here to stay.
Yeah, I'm done with Reddit. Been using it since near when it started, and I've gotten to watch it slowly rot... I'm either here to stay, or I'm just done with it all. Either way, I'm not going back to Reddit.
Over the years I've unsubscribed from more and more of Reddit's default subs. I think I'm only still subbed to aww and til, and I rarely comment on those. Almost all my engagement is with niche subreddits for my topics of interest via a third party app, so until now I've avoided all the rot. If I lose the app, I lose interest in Reddit.