Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.
But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.
Give me that hopium guys! 💉
I’m still not sure I understand how communities and instances work.
If I create an instance here will it show in other instances? Because I did create one on Lemmy world and I can’t see it in the other instance I am at with my other account, even though I look at “all”
Lemmyworld is an instance. The other one with the other account is also an instance. You do not create an instance on an instance.
You create a new instance by setting up a new web server and having it run lemmy for users to sign on to.
Content propagation’s another issue.
Sorry. I meant that I created a community in one instance and can’t see it in an other
Someone from that other instance needs to look for your community for it to show up on that instance.
When you create a new community, other instances don’t automatically know it exists yet. They find out when the first person from there, searches for your community (search syntax is given in the community sidebar:
!community@instance<-- note the ! at the start). Once someone subscribes, it shows up in that instance’s All feed.To get the word out to other instances you can post in the various relevant communities as well as make sure to drop the link into any relevant conversations where people might be interested in checking it out. Since you have at least two accounts, if you create a community on one of your instances you can also use your other account as a shortcut and search for it yourself on the other instance.
Some useful communities are:
- [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin)
- [email protected] (Lemmy / Kbin)
I see what you did there… 😏 Good advice though!
Very rough explanation:
An instance is just a single distinct computer (server) running the Lemmy software. You have a bunch of these separate computers running the Lemmy software. These computers - together - form the Lemmyverse. (I’m purposely leaving out Fediverse, activitypub).
Each user (no matter what computer/instance they signed up with) has the ability to comment on any post made within this system of cooperating computers (The Lemmyverse). We can also subscribed to each other’s communities (ie; forums, subreddits).
That’s basically it. The ability to share posts and to comment on each other’s posts. You can’t use your login details across Lemmyverse since each computer is distinct.
Some of these distinct computers may decide they don’t want to be part of this Federation of cooperating computers. For the most part they can disengage from this Lemmyverse. For the most part… but the software is still on version (about) 0.18.2 and so complete (or temporary) disengagement from Lemmyverse is still in development (ie; coding, logic decisions, etc).
Excellent! It’s like old days php forums but you have feeds from other forums too.
It’s a bit scary though that you can have whole lot of content and a whole community but it’s all up to the single instance host if they want to drop it from one day to another.
Lemmy.world had problems since day 1 for me. When you get to a smaller fully updated sever like lemm.ee the service is excellent and you see how good Lemmy is.
Shh!!! lemm.ee is slow and overloaded, no need to register here. 👀
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There are a number of tools that monitor the fediverse. Here’s one. The thesis does not appear to be correct though. As lemmy.world’s monthly active users is stabalizing, Lemmy as a whole is declining.
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Did you just call it the “Threadiverse”?? dafuq?
I found out about that term yesterday. It means lemmy/kbin. And only those two together.
Idk
They’re both reddit-like. Pretty much an independent part of the fediverse so it’s good to have a term for them
Might be part of why Facebook co-opted “threads”
They actually had a previous app called ‘Threads’ that they canned like a year ago. It was an instagram messaging app iirc
FB had a different app called threads two years ago, which was a direct messenger that sent videos or something. Not sure why they recycled the name.
I don’t know. The oldest I could find of the threadiverse was a month ago. FB has been working on threads since January. It’s possible though, and I wouldn’t be surprised.
Hopefully someone with more info will chime in.
It started popping up after Kbin became a thing and a term was needed for link aggregators together.
Huh. Weird.
In a lot of ways, I’m happy to hear this. A lot of communities will thrive without the intervention of a central power.
Some communities will become toxic, and it will be up to the individual to figure out whether that’s for them or not- but at least they have a choice.
/r/fatpeoplehate inspired me to lose 135 LB. It wasn’t a bad subreddit.
Granted /r/coonworld /r/chimpout we’re both…Jesus Christ… but at least even the most vile of people had a voice.
That’s a good thing. Keep the fediverae alive without overemcumbering servers. That’s what’s so strong about it, we can keep growing without too much costs.
well some of us moved on purpose
as long as you can still subscribe to those communities on other instances it doesn’t matter.
Yeah, I switched over to another server simply because lemmy.world was slow and then got compromised with the whole injection thing. No other reason.
Can someone explain this like I’m an idiot (because I am)? This sounds like at some point I’m going to need to create a new account because shit will get too….popular? Dafuq? I downloaded Voyager, spent a bajillion hours looking for communities to add to my feed because fuck Reddit, and this conversation is scaring/confusing the shit out of me.
Thanks
Deep breath, it’s all good!
.world was having trouble because it grew really really fast (like it’s only existed for about six weeks at this point), and the Lemmy software had never been tested with the sorts of numbers we very suddenly saw during the Reddit migration. So naturally there were performance problems, as nobody had ever run a Lemmy instance that large.
A few instance admins put their heads together and figured out various fixes and optimisations, and now it’s running fine. Maybe we’ll get into more issues down the road, that’s just the nature of being the first to try something new. But it’s nothing to panic about, think of it more like you’re a brave pioneer into an exciting new world :D
If everyone already here just stays here, I’d be happy. We’ve already hit a nice place.
Lemmy is not a business, so it doesn’t necessarily need a constant influx of new users. Sustainability is based on user experience, not endless growth.
Edit: actually last sentence kind of dumb. Sustainability based on keeping the servers running and user experience.
Question, does it matter? Arent we all part of this universe so it doesnt matter right? Im still sorta confused how all this stuff works.
Well I mean when you have connectivity issues and authentication issues making you unable to log in, I more than get it. It’s all well and good though as I hope Lemmy takes off. Growing pains is all!
I kind of think that’s how it’s supposed to go in my made-up-right-this-second knowledge of the evolution of open source Federated social media sites. Pick the largest/most active/most variety to get your feet wet and make any weird mistakes you need to make in a crowd where you’re one of many and sheer speed of posting means you’ll be forgotten in like, hours. Then you get comfortable and see if this is a forever-fit or just a okay-right-now fit.
I mean, I hard-bond to my first and pretty much settle immediately for life unless something is seriously awry, but even I made a backup in another one that I mirrored all my favorite communities in and I am seriously getting one more in a smaller, more specialized server. Yes, I do get the point of Federated, you do not need to explain, but here’s the thing: intellectually I know that actually, the population of the Fediverse is orders of magnitude smaller than reddit or pretty much any other social media site, but feelings do not agree: Reddit was like a large, slightly hostile country with a lot of states you avoided always but especially between dusk and dawn; the scope of Fediverse is like being on a very small planet in an expanding universe you can watch growing in real time and it never stops. It’s great, but there’s something very unsettling realizing you’re eight servers from home surrounded by kpop or wake up to find you posted in three communities in servers you don’t recognize at two AM and if you can get a reputation for that kind of thing.
My ADHD is living the dream, let’s go, but I can see how it would throw people a little.
That’s part of the design, isn’t it? Basically so no instance has dominance.
