I think this place is too fragmented into instances to ever generate a front page anywhere near what r/all is.
If I understand this page right, https://lemm.ee will never show the top post of the day from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, https://discuss.tchncs.de/, or https://feddit.uk/.
And the “front page/general” site is already split into several instances (https://vlemmy.net/, https://lemmy.world/, https://sh.itjust.works/, https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/ and https://lemmy.one/, all claiming to be “a general front page lemmy instance”)
So what’s the deal, which one are we betting on as the place to direct all the new traffic? What’s the contender for primary public internet bulletin board? Right now the arrow to an alternative is looking like this: https://i.imgur.com/L1XsBy6.pngd
I’m personally guessing the conclusion is already reached; We have no place we’re betting on. We’re disinterested in pushing for any particular result. We don’t expect people to migrate. Many might not even want them to.
If I understand this page right, https://lemm.ee will never show the top post of the day from https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/, https://discuss.tchncs.de/, or https://feddit.uk/.
The top posts from all of those instances will have a chance to appear on your front page of lemm.ee, as long as at least one lemm.ee user has previously subscribed to the community those top posts are posted on!
If you put your front page on “subscribed”, then you will see posts from all communities you are subscribed to, regardless of whether these communities are lemmy.ml, feddit.uk or any other instance.
If you put your front page on “all”, you will see posts from ALL communities that have at least one subscriber on lemm.ee (again, regardless of what instance these communities are housed on).
So to be clear, you have nothing to worry about! 😃
Let me know if any of this doesn’t make sense, I’m happy to explain further.
I would suggest the site set up the option to view the top/hot/active posts from all instances regardless of having anyone subscribed.
Or, in a hacky way, make an instance with a “bot-user” that is subscribed to every single community in every single instance (and automatically subscribes to any new community and instance that gets created), and send that page to people looking to migrate from Spez’s Spazspot.
And let me be clear, I’m not really worried, just a little disappointed to see so little successful exploitation of this situation.
To be honest, effectively that’s the result anyway, as I believe most communities that get very popular posts already have at least 1 subscriber on lemm.ee, and there’s no reason to expect this trend to ever change.
So what’s the deal, which one are we betting on as the place to direct all the new traffic?
We aren’t. That’s the thing, there isn’t a single place with lemmy. There’s lots of places that all communicate between each other.
As I expected. Lemmy does not want to compete.
I also expect this place to be dead and forgotten by the end of the year, a few mentions and visits on occasion, but never growing past a maximum of ~100 participants in the most active posts.
Do you understand how Lemmy-and the fediverse in a broader sense-works exactly? It doesn’t need to compete head to head with reddit. See, back in ye olden days, reddit had a somewhat higher barrier to entry and catered to people who were more technically minded and moving away from increasingly commercialized social media platforms.
Does this sound familiar?
Lemmy has a long way to go, but coming in here and waving the white flag after less than a week is a little foolish.
Lemmy has a long way to go, but coming in here and waving the white flag after less than a week is a little foolish.
Be honest with yourself. If lemmy was an attractive alternative, you would’ve seen much more rapid growth these last couple days. Lemmy simply wasn’t ready for prime-time when this opportunity arose, maybe it will be later.
I’ll leave this here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/149cna4/like_all_blowups_on_reddit_this_one_will_pass_as/jo4ebot/
A fun thing to point out is that this little comment has more engagement than almost every post on Lemmy. All but 10.
Visits the Fediverse for 2 days and then posts about how it’s never gonna work, get in line.
I didn’t want to keep editing my other comments so I’m making another top level- check this out! https://lemmyverse.net/
I think this is kind of what you’re looking for as far as a streamlined way to browse different instances.