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theywilleatthestars ,

Think a lot of people joined because they were mad at Reddit’s fuckery last year but have since gone back.

DarkThoughts ,

His screenshot is from a couple weeks ago.

1984 , (edited )
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

I think because we have mostly memes and any discussion is just won by downvoting your opponent. :)

I’m half serious… The platform right now is lacking actual discussions. Everyone seems to just like memes.

dohpaz42 , (edited )
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, it’s a short-sighted move made with hubris by the developer’s personal ideology. Both @nutomic and @dessalines admit in the PR that it’s not a good solution, but yet they continue any way — probably because it’s an easy “solution”, despite alienating 41% of their active user base.

It’s a terrible trend in a lot of programming circles that programmers think because it is easy and it “works” (in that one circumstance) that it must be correct. This can be evidenced by browsing StackOverflow and reading the accepted answers for a lot of questions (SSL errors in software and disabling hostname verification or cert checks comes to mind).

In my 18+ years of experience, if I find an “easy” solution to a complex problem, I keep looking for the correct solution. What is “easy” now will most likely lead to more complex problems down the line. And as they say, “if you can’t find the time to fix it right the first time, where are you going to find the time to fix it again?”

Look, I get Lemmy is meant to be decentralized. Hiding away your biggest instance looks shady to outside users not in the know. The real solution is to “go door to door” to app makers and ask them to not default to any one instance of Lemmy (side note: randomizing a default server is not much better). If anything, add a link to join-lemmy where people can browse the list of ALL instances (yes, ALL of them) and let them make a genuinely-informed decision on their own. As a convenience, and API should be provided (assuming one does not already exist) so that apps can query a pageable/searchable list of existing/active instances (maybe also provide a link to their homepage too).

Hell, if it makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy, the default sorting of returned values can be weighted by percentage of active users (i.e., higher percentages get lower weights to help promote smaller instances). This would help to round out the number of signups without excluding instances.

But whatever developers do (not just Lemmy devs), do NOT overly dictate how people use your software “because I don’t like it”; lest you piss your user base off.

/two-cents

Edit: clarified a few points.

alcoholicorn ,

alienating 41% of their active user base

Why would distributing users to smaller instances alienate Lemmy.world users?

If anything, distributing the load results in a better user experience, since the last Reddit exodus was taking down .world every few hours.

dohpaz42 , (edited )
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Because it’s not simply “distributing” the load; it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist. So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?

Re-read my comment — specifically the second half where I offer a potential solution that would actually distribute the load more fairly without having to hide anything.

alcoholicorn ,

it’s actively hiding an instance as if it doesn’t exist

For the purpose of directing new users, who tend to just pick the largest instance, sure. But if you and they are both federated, there’s no difference in the content.

So what do they do when the next instance gets “too big” for their liking? Hide it, along side LW? And the next?

Correct, because this increases the reliability of the average lemmy user’s experience as one point of failure affects fewer users.

DarkThoughts ,

You're talking about something without actually clarifying what the hell you're talking about. That's the short sighted move? The easy "solution"? What "works"?

TehWorld ,

I have NO idea about the actual answer. Is it possible that these are from different time-of-day readings?

SorteKanin , (edited )
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Lemmy devs decided to exclude lemmy.world from the join-lemmy site because it’s too big. Obviously that removes a lot of active users.

github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/358

expatriado , (edited )

so lemmy.world became too big to fail and the other instances decided didn’t want to risk a potential bail out?

SorteKanin , (edited )
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

This has nothing to do with other instances. The join-lemmy.org site is run by the Lemmy developers and they decide what happens with that site. They think it’s problematic that lemmy.world is as big as it is (as one of the points of the fediverse is decentralization). So they removed lemmy.world from the listing on join-lemmy.org.

Note that this is in no way a defederation or anything of that sort. The site just doesn’t show lemmy.world, that’s all.

expatriado ,

my comment was mostly a joke, but it doesn’t contradict your point, lemmy.word got too big(relatively) so it got de-listed to flow new users to other instances

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

my comment was mostly a joke

Sorry for not getting it, it’s just that sometimes people (understandably) get very confused about the technicalities of the fediverse and mix up things like defederation and stuff like this. 😅

Consider a /s in the future :)

expatriado ,

it’s ok, it was a reference to the 2008 finacial bubble, i knew there was the risk younger people wouldn’t get it

101 OP ,
@101@feddit.org avatar

That is a very weird thing to do, unless they are looking to boost their own instance.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

You can read their motivation in the linked pull request. FWIW I don’t think there’s any ill intent here and certainly not an attempt to boost their own instance. I think they just want Lemmy to be decentralized and lemmy.world being as big as it is kinda prevents that.

I’m not sure I would’ve done it that way personally but I can see the reasoning and it’s not entirely unreasonable.

101 OP ,
@101@feddit.org avatar

In my humble opinion, join lemmy should only exclude the instances that is harmful.

They should not choose the instances to include for the users.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

I think I generally agree with you, but I don’t think this is a big grievance. Lemmy.world has enough traction as it is, they don’t really need the “publicity” from join-lemmy.org.

It would’ve been better if they had written this as some kind of policy beforehand. Like if they had written somewhere before this pull request something like “any instance with more than 40% of active users may be excluded from the join-lemmy.org listing”, then it would’ve been more reasonable too.

ruud ,
@ruud@lemmy.world avatar

It would have been better if they communicated to us first. I don’t disagree that user signups should be spread over instances. We now have a link to lemmyverse.net on our signup page so people can check if another instance would fit them better.

Aphelion ,

Lemmy.world becoming the default Lemmy instance, and it growing to outsize all other instances is a danger: it makes the Fediverse centralized, easy to take down and easy to take over.

101 OP , (edited )
@101@feddit.org avatar

The same applies to the mastodon . Social instance and the same applies really to every Fediverse software available, with the exception of pixelfed.

DarkThoughts ,

In my humble opinion, join lemmy should only exclude the instances that is harmful.

They'd then have to hide their own instances...

101 OP ,
@101@feddit.org avatar

Holy shit, the most active instance right now on the website is LemmyNSFW.

https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/8fea4c47-56dd-45a3-838c-14fd51a2d6d4.jpeg

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

🎵 the internet is for porn 🎵

elvith ,

Rule 34 in action

DarkThoughts ,

p0rn p0rn p0000000000000000000rn

borf ,

I missed when reddit had more porn so here I am

Heartwotalk ,

https://lemmynsfw.com/pictrs/image/2af401ce-441f-45c5-a3d6-7f87fd0652a9.jpeg

someguy3 ,

I want the biggest Lemmy you have.

No, that’s too big.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

It’s a genuine concern though. If you want one centralised server hosting all the content, just use reddit.

eee ,

That’s stupid.

The main problem with lemmy now is adoption, there isn’t a critical mass of users yet.

When users see the stats without lemmy.world, they’ll be discouraged from joining. Add to that the issues with federation and the few who join will leave because of the steep learning curve.

Way to alienate potential users.

cabbage ,
@cabbage@piefed.social avatar

Yeah. If they pushed it to the bottom of the list, or even removed them from the list but kept the user count, I could kind of understand it. But censoring them completely for being too successful seems like shooting yourself in the foot.

Lemmy.world is doing great and I'm happy for it and all that, but... 20 000 monthly active users does not exactly make them a tech giant that needs to be kept in check just yet. Ideally, instances of 20 000 active users should be quite normal at some point, and having stress tested the software before then should, one assumes, be a good thing.

HobbitFoot ,

You probably also have the friction been .world and the developers’ Lemmy.

There is also a problem that Lemmy seems to be having problems maintaining a good middle ground of Lemmy servers.

FundMECFSResearch ,

Did a russian troll farm get shut down or something (/s)

dsilverz ,
@dsilverz@thelemmy.club avatar

The asterisk means that, by “active users”, they’re considering only those who commented and/or posted “in the last month”. Maybe join-lemmy’s algorithm is considering from “day 1” of the current month, so a time span of 10 days, against 29 days from the second screenshot?

If it’s true, it kinda of statistically makes sense: 10 days (28.4K) versus 29 days (47.8K), 34.4% of days with 59.41% of users. We’d need to wait till the 29th day to really compare the difference.

Also, “only those who commented and/or posted”. Sometimes, people can become much of an observer, just seeing and voting up/down, without actually commenting or posting.

squirrel ,
@squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

FediDB shows a stable 44k MAU

101 OP ,
@101@feddit.org avatar

The statistics there is confusing for me.

mesamunefire ,

How does the software pull the numbers? Maybe an instance got blocked 30 days ago?

rudyharrelson ,
@rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio avatar

We need @SorteKanin to dive in and tell us how these numbers work!

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Here you go: feddit.dk/post/7667476/10289642

rudyharrelson ,
@rudyharrelson@lemmy.radio avatar

Well, that was fast, lol.

Thanks!

Sundial , (edited )

School probably.

Honestly, what’s more surprising is the numbers are that drastic. I didn’t think we have that many Gen Z users here.

EDIT: Actual reason can be found here: feddit.dk/post/7667476/10289642

Thanks SorteKanin for providing the context.

ccunning ,

I don’t get it. I work full time and have no problem wasting my life I mean time here…

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble ,

What is your default sort set to?

I’m set to scaled and subscribed by default which mostly gets me posts from the last 0-6 hours. But for some reason Lemmy on FF keeps logging me out so I get to see the default all with active sort and it’s a wildly different user base.

There was a post the other day in like Linux memes about case sensitivity in the file system. Early on the post was mostly the Linux die hards who love their case sensitivity. After about 1.5 days it showed up in active and all of the newer comments were (probably normal people) bashing case sensitivity. It’s almost like R*ddit to a degree where the general consensus in the comments can change over time as different users start seeing the post.

Sundial ,

I sort by new a lot so it definitely could be that actually. Good point.

expatriado ,

i’m in school, still have to shit from time to time

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

Hijacking top comment to give the actual answer: feddit.dk/post/7667476/10289642

Sundial ,

Oh wow didn’t even see this. Thanks for providing the actual reason.

SorteKanin ,
@SorteKanin@feddit.dk avatar

You may want to edit your comment :)

Sundial ,

Good point, just did :)

DontTreadOnBigfoot ,
@DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world avatar

School started? 🤷🏼‍♂️

urheber ,

I’m still here most of my day.

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