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jax, 11 months ago

Agreed, but I think all instances linked there are going to see high load over the next while. We shall see how the network stands up...

jax, 11 months ago

I think for me it’s going to be hit or miss. Right now I’m on this more, but it doesn’t have a lot of the content I’m interested in currently.

jax, 11 months ago

Oh, I've been creating a lot of tech content, like my old days on Reddit. These days I mostly lurk on LGTQ subreddits though and idk how the Lemmy community feels about that (not that I have much to post in that regards anyways, link/forum wise)

jax, 11 months ago

I’d probably call this niche of fediverse apps “fediverse link aggregators”. Their UI really only makes them useful for that at the moment (IMO - haven’t tried kbin), and you can technically follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon if you want (it’s not a great UX), but you don’t get the aggregation doing that. At least not without sorting down to just that view.

jax, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

I've opened some pull requests on the main app repo and the docs repo with changes that should fix the docker install issues people have been having.

Specifically: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2908 / https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/pull/186

jax, 11 months ago

Oh, I totally agree!

I think the Fediverse’s biggest issue right now is finding content and communities to connect with, which will be interesting to see develop over time.

I’m also interested to see if the uptick in instances will continue or if people will start to gravitate towards large instances due to it being easier to find content that way.

jax, 11 months ago

I would agree with this, and we've seen similar attempts made by Reddit admins in the past to actively make the site worse (though this is particularily bad).

I think the main problem previously is that there was no where to go before so people begrudgingly stayed on Reddit. Now, however, with the changes made by Twitter within the last few months, the Fediverse has really taken off and more people are aware of it, and other potential options like Lemmy or kbin.

I think as long as content keeps being added (both posts & comments), that it will gain some traction. Long ways to go though.

jax, 11 months ago

Yeah, seeing some of the comments on threads about the drama, a surprising number of people didn't even know that there were alternative clients for Reddit, which was a surprise to me.

It's kinda dishartening to see the number of companies which are (in effect) disabling their APIs due to massive price increases. Walled gardens and all that.

jax, 11 months ago

My understanding is that a lot of VPS hosts have rules against hosting NSFW content, and they have to be strictly moderated (hopefully for obvious reasons…).