this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

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[–] myfaceistupid@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What caused that spike around October 2022?

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[–] grygon@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Given the timeouts and load issues I've had on lemmy.ml today... Mildly concerned.

I'm part of the problem though, and really hopeful it goes well! Seems like the solution to the Giant Network problem we see at Reddit, Twitter, FB, etc

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[–] meisme@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago
[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's cool The reason why I even joined lemmy is that the administration here allow magnet links

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[–] Marko@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Every time I hear ding, I start laughing. 😁

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

As a newbie, I hope the software can catch up to the needs quickly.

[–] Alkalyon@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Guys, what are you on about.

It's very clear that Lemmy is dead on arrival.

Redditors told me so.

Don't you see it?

/s

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That person is saying it like it's a bad thing that signing up isn't brain-dead.

[–] RedPander@lemmy.rogers-net.com 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That user does have a point. The higher a barrier to entry the less people you are going to get.

Though there is something to be said for the selection of people that get filtered out. While I appreciate large communities because of the variety of view points available, the quality increasing due to a barrier of entry has advantages too.

As a side note, thanks for writing up guides for people!

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[–] uthredii@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

Lemmy go brrrrr

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago
[–] Evolone@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

I’m super excited for the potential this has. Happy to be here and hoping to help build a great online community with you all!

[–] admin@lemmy-u3.vm.elestio.app 12 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think we really need to address the scaling issue, one option could be to use clichhouse instead of postgres

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[–] mr_pip@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just hope that it will be more distributed than Matrix and not everyone registers on lemmy.ml (matrix.org in case of matrix) so the decentralization works for real here instead of 90% (exaggerating, don't know the numbers) of the user base sitting on one instance :)

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

with how much .ml is struggling to handle the load I would've expected even more to pick different instances, though the situation seems better than how mastodon.social was during the twitter migration

the upcoming centralization issue sounds like it'll be the communities themselves all being hosted on .ml, not accounts. can't want to see how that one is gonna play out

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[–] zork@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You know, it just occured to me yesterday that there might be a federated version of reddit. Looked it up and I was pleasantly surprised to see it's actually picking up a lot of users. Now if we could see a mobile app as polished as rif is fun, I'll be extremely happy. Move over reddit, let's go lemmy!

Just wondering though, how scalable is lemmy? What kind of hardware/connection would you need to host your own instance?

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[–] SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just out of curiosity, where can I find those stats?

[–] rockhandle@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not new to Lemmy, I've hung around here on and off a couple times since the start of the year. My biggest complaint about it for a long time was that many of the subs I was interested in were just dead or didnt exist on lemmy. With the new influx of users, I imagine that's going to change, even if it does take a couple more years.

The future of Lemmy is looking very promising :)

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[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A nice website for looking for servers, platforms, and user numbers over time is: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Also handy for getting a picture of how many lemmy servers there are and how big they are.

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[–] MyopicTopic@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Man, I been waiting for this for years. I thought with the way Mastodon grew it'd eventually grow into a wider growth among the fediverse but it seems to happen in fits and starts. Glad to see people are federating too and not all dumping into just the mainline instance.

Next I'd like to see major names move off YouTube and Twitch onto decentralized platforms but that's gonna take much more to get there, unfortunately.

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[–] Pilkitonion@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Ya love to see it.

[–] amir_s89@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Honestly this platform is welcoming & people are dignified through conversations. Also informative.

[–] zakiuem@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Joined Lemmy because of permanent suspension from the Snoosite for harassment, which I clearly didn't commit at that time.

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