Just thought this was kind of neat. Our little instance, all grown up! @sunaurus@lemm.ee, you’re famous! 😂

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    1 year ago

    “suffer the same fate as Mastodon”? You mean… manage to slowly but steadily grow even in the face of an existing giant?

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    1 year ago

    Nice find! They’re definitely not wrong about the growing pains, we are dealing with some very raw software here still.

    I found this bit quite funny, though:

    All in all, Lemmy comes across as what a utopian Reddit should be. Free of corporate control, with the ability to run your instances. But unless something changes dramatically, it’ll suffer the same fate as Mastodon or Bluesky.

    If Lemmy manages to reach Mastodon’s level, then that’s pretty much an absolute win, no? I’m not sure where the suffering is in that scenario 😅

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      1 year ago

      I tell you, I looked at mastodon a couple of years ago, and left it almost untouched and very confused. Lemmy looks a bit better, but is still not great. I think if we want to go mainstream, we should really focus more on “join lemmy” instead of “run lemmy yourself”, but everyone and every admin has a different opinion, so it’s going to take a while.

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        1 year ago

        Mastodon is extremely active. Even if you aren’t there, it’s pretty big. Nonetheless, you are right that shit needs to look very neat for mass adoption to come. Buuuut, from 1k to 240k in like 10 days is very good still :)

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    1 year ago

    It’s neat but also I’m kind of angry at the “review” of Lemmy on there. Like, what exactly do you expect this brand new thing with communities created less than a week ago to do??

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      1 year ago

      wait, is the lemmy code really just weeks old? I thought it was boiling for some months now.

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        1 year ago

        No, looking at the GitHub repo, it’s been worked on (by 2 people) since 2019. But I was referring to the communities as being new - the author laments that he can’t find his favorite subreddits, active and useful.

        I’d say the software is quite young at this point. They haven’t even gotten to a 1.0 release yet.