Unlimited growth is capitalist mindset. Stability and community are what we value here.

Just FYI, the number may be up a bit more than we are seeing due to how the website pulls its numbers.

There's a lot of instances that put anti ai/ crawling tech in front of their instances. As well as instances that are no longer sharing stats due to ai activity.

The numbers come from /nodeinfo/2.1 (may be different on different softwares, check .well-known/nodeinfo to find the endpoint).

E.g., https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/nodeinfo/2.1 is the one for my instance.

Thank you for your service. I agree with you on the issue, but am a bit afraid that if more people onboard here, the threads will be just the same reddit hivemind circlejerk like ”i also choose this guys wife” etc. But since there is no karma to gain here I wish it will stay like this.

Stamets, byteonbikes, mtz, lady butterfly, track_shovel.

When you start seeing it, you can't unsee it.

No, its the fact that the same couple of people post across all communitys and drown everything else. I wouldn't be opposed to a daily limit of posts, just to bring the noise down. The only reason i still come here is for the rare, once a week, quality post.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48

People have started using Piefed insted of Lemmy, but I'm not sure we should throw away hope for the fediverse because of that.

Yeah. And we don't need to attract the MOST people, just the BEST people

I used to post everywhere.

Every single time that I go through the effort to contribute to another small community i somehow break some fucking rule and my post is removed despite there being 0 activity on that space for days.

Every time this happens, I block the space because it's a horrible experience to try to create content for the fediverse.

It feels the exact same as reddit, and the more mod and admin abuse that keeps happening, the more people will keep leaving and poating less.

Honestly, the next time I get a fucking un replyable automod message on this space that is "suppsed to be better than reddit" I think I am done contributing to the fediverse.

Having to explain federation is kind of the issue in my opinion.

I don't, nowadays, I just point to piefed.zip

This would just be an alternative

The issue is that there aren't really instances that are similar enough to be considered interchangeable. They all have their specificity, be it admin style, defederation, downvotes enabled or disabled, front-ends available, etc.

Block them if you don't like their posts ?

I'm not a programmer so I can't speak to how hard this is, but I think it would be a big asset to building user base if there was a neutral sign up website that wasn't a specific instance. It would basically choose an instance for you automatically and skip that part. I figure there could be some list of general purpose instances compiled that are all fair game and the site would try to spread the load across instances.

Average user doesn't care about federation, and all of that complexity is a big turn off. I know because I almost didn't sign up myself because of that. Having to pick a team just to get in the door feels kinda bad.

Yep. I agree with this. Re-creating Reddit at the same scale just brings all the same problems. I like that federation means smaller more localised communities that can be connected (or not). I get that it’s not what everyone wants or is used to, and that’s okay.

Yeah that's a good point. Maybe it's too different for it to work. I maintain that complexity will continue to push people away, though. If instances are that different we might have better luck referring to them as their own sites. That would just increase the flocking to single mega instances though. The most important feature of any social media site is who's on it.

Ah yes. The common solution to everything. Make my own little universe where everyone and everything is perfect and everyone agrees with me.

I keep things unblocked for a reason.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=752415

I never post, and I don't comment much but I did get banned once cause I downvoted a moderator's comment

I mean with how many instances have launched a piefed server the last few months and with how small Lemmy is in the first place even a thousand or so users switching would explain some of that slight downward slope at the end.

• Clicks "All", "Top Six Hours"

  • Sees impersonal biased news sources reporting how bad the world is
  • Every post repetition of the one above it

• Clicks "Comments"

  • Scrolls for a while
  • Finds one person talking about how good their day is or one topic they're passionate about