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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That's the beauty of multiple instances. As long as people push heading to join-lemmy.org over any one particular instance, things should be mostly okay.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I signed up from prgrmaming.dev and I really like the function of being able to sign up within a different community that you can choose.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yep, if they can find a smaller, specialised, or localised instance it is better for the network for them to join that and learn to subscribe to others rather than lumping on one big server.

It's just a little awkward for new users to subscribe and navigate across instances at the moment, but new features and "gasp" third party apps can make that easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On the other hand sending people to a list of servers that includes stuff like lemmygrad and yiffit pretty high on the list is... a potential turnoff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There is https://lemmyverse.net/ as an alternative, I don't see any immediately shady communities in the top of the listing. Though it does put lemmy.ml as #1, which isn't ideal since it'd probably draw a lot of people right to it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Do we really think there’s going to be that many more users joining once the API policy goes into effect? I feel like most people who were going to leave Reddit have already left. Idk, I could be wrong. But why would people be back there if they’re just going to leave in July?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there'll be a lot more, since so far people have only left for ideological reasons. Once they actually lose access to reddit via third party apps, it'll be a lot easier to justify moving on.

And there are probably people still hoping that reddit will reverse their decision or somehow fix things before the changes take effect.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I am in this boat. Comments by spez make a reversal seem impossible at this point…but I’m still using Reddit through Apollo until Apollo is disabled.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I agree. I could see a few extra users joining, but I don’t think it will be a flood.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I read about 3% of Reddit users use a third party app, which doesn't sound like a lot but Reddit has millions of users.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And the people who use third party apps tend to be the powerusers. Or at least the ones actually posting content.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's not only about apps, but the attitude of the administration.

Ghostbanning and removing communities before, removing API now, what is going to be next?

I moved from Pikabu to Reddit cos of the same attitude issues and original Pikabu is gone to be an absolute shite now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a couple of powerusers, that still hoped to change something with the blackout, will check Lemmy out after the new policy started. But I don't expect a huge wave.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It'll be gradual I think. The biggest influx was likely Tuesday and Wednesday.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

When the 3PAs are actually gone and when they open Apollo or other app, that user is not going to be ok with the official Reddit app and they’ll look for an alternative. I bet a bunch end up on Lemmy or kbin.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy.World by far has a stronger server than lemmy.ml you can get details here and here I think Lemmy.World is by far in a better position than the rest so they might be okay? Lemmy.ml is still struggling.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

He's doing good work. Love how transparent he is.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

By joining FMHY! FTW

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There was criticism on the lack of moderation tools which could neccessitate to close registration.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What monitoring data does a Lemmy instance export? Can it be easily monitored from, e.g., Prometheus?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

They have an env var for an Open Telemetry endpoint in the docker config.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sweet. I'm thinking of bringing up an instance and would like to be a competent SRE for it. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Be the change you want to see in the world! And also share your graphs with the rest of us 😁

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a site that tracks telemetry of all federated instances? I’d love to be able to quickly check if a remote instance is having issues.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Not that I know of but I've found a couple of stats pages in my travels: