Obviously a few years ago, the API changes caused the reddit community mods to strike, and caused a mass-blackout of most reddit core communities. Eventually Reddit removed a handful of mod teams on some notable subreddits and caused the rest to chicken-out. But it did birth the Fediverse properly.
I suspect Reddit will make another step at some point which causes another comparable exodus. This time, if they do, the Fediverse is far better developed to handle it. What do you imagine it might be?
So tangentially to the post, I guess the implied question is: when will Lemmy see another explosion in its userbase.
And to that…I don’t know.
I’ve been trying to get away from reddit for a while and the problem with Lemmy is two fold
Very minor: it requires me to unblock cloudflare when I’m using noscript
More major, I still don’t have an intuitive understanding of how lemmy works. On reddit if I was interested in knitting, going to old.reddit.com/r/knitting would be a good starting point.
I’m still confused about multiple instances, why bifurcate the community (are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).
I (perhaps foolishly) consider myself slightly above average in terms of tech literacy; if I’m this confuse I do wonder how are others going to fare.
To prevent the centralisation of power into a single instance. If Lemmy.world was the only instance and the owners and admins would have full power. Because the fediverse is centralised, if the instance goes bad - or some moderators on communities there go bad, they can be replaced on another instance.
Yes, but none of them are active.
It won’t, most likely. Old users are rather going offline than migrating. And the federated nature of lemmy and having to deal with censorhappy instance admins and dying instances keep communities lose members each time when forced to migrate.
[email protected] is the heir of the lemm.ee version, and is now more active that the old one used to be
As far as I know, lemm.ee was the only notable instance that was shut down - and I believe most communities on there successfully migrated to a mixture of piefed.social, lemmy.zip and a smattering of others.
Yes, our community has had the bad luck of having had to move three times. Shedding members each time. The last move was due to the sudden shutdown of lemm.ee.
Oh collapse. I also had to move, and rebuilt well enough.
btw about your cloudflare issue, its only on lemmy.world and not other instances. try another one