This can’t be true. Lemmy world is over 100k users now. And it depends on how many are active.
But yes, it would be very beneficial to the entire lemmy network if many more instances could grow and get active communities. Right now it’s like every community is from Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml. It’s stupid.
Edit: And I just checked out lemmy.world local… There are tons of posts that doesnt even federate to other instances. So the stability problems are pretty much affecting the entire fediverse now since they are so big.
Which is why it keeps dropping. The way Lemmy is designed, a bunch of stuff is kept in memory. Like loading a post with a lot of comments spikes the CPU and memory, A LOT A LOT. Things are of course improving rapidly, but until fixes like that and the federation queue land, it’s easy to bring a server so over capacity to its knees.
Problem is, most people are going to take one look at join-lemmy and not know what to do. It’s so much easier to point people at lemmy.world or lemmy.ml.
And until very recently, small servers have had a ton of trouble finding communities on the big servers. That seems to be mostly resolved, though I still get community not found errors when I first navigate to a new community, but refreshing takes care of this. New users aren’t going to know what to do with this.
Granted, many (most?) people seem to think these problems are a good thing because it keeps the normies out, but forums are nothing without people.
This can’t be true. Lemmy world is over 100k users now. And it depends on how many are active.
But yes, it would be very beneficial to the entire lemmy network if many more instances could grow and get active communities. Right now it’s like every community is from Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml. It’s stupid.
Edit: And I just checked out lemmy.world local… There are tons of posts that doesnt even federate to other instances. So the stability problems are pretty much affecting the entire fediverse now since they are so big.
Look at Lemmy world local using Voyager:
https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/local#galleryopen
Which is why it keeps dropping. The way Lemmy is designed, a bunch of stuff is kept in memory. Like loading a post with a lot of comments spikes the CPU and memory, A LOT A LOT. Things are of course improving rapidly, but until fixes like that and the federation queue land, it’s easy to bring a server so over capacity to its knees.
Yeah ok. Well honestly I think it’s absurd that they have so many users and communities, and I hope people take this time to spread out.
It’s almost comic how everyone is on Lemmy.world when there is over a thousand other instances with zero problems.
I recommend Lemmy.today and specially if you are not afraid to post stuff. Would be nice to get some more local conversions going.
Problem is, most people are going to take one look at join-lemmy and not know what to do. It’s so much easier to point people at lemmy.world or lemmy.ml.
And until very recently, small servers have had a ton of trouble finding communities on the big servers. That seems to be mostly resolved, though I still get community not found errors when I first navigate to a new community, but refreshing takes care of this. New users aren’t going to know what to do with this.
Granted, many (most?) people seem to think these problems are a good thing because it keeps the normies out, but forums are nothing without people.
It has now federated actually, but took a long time.