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There were 3 things going for Reddit, content wise: memes, news, hobby subs. It was a 50/50 if my Google search included reddit or Wikipedia. If reddit threw up a banner every 6 months and asked for a donation, I’d gladly throw 20 bucks their way. Reddit should have been a non-profit.
Going public was the absolute worse decision they ever made.
Waiting for ShroomScout to bring over Unclebens
Yeah. It’s gonna be a rough first couple months. App development needs to catch up. Server support needs to catch up. Many subs need to figure out how to move over their communities. I’m tempted to start making communities and just copy-pasting the side bars and pinned threads, but Im not a mod for anything, so it feels like it’d be plagiarism.
yeah. i think the other problem is that people don’t know if the instance would be good performance wise. i.e. i joined lemmy.ml because it was the one i found first.
A good way to handle it would be to have an instance list. with number of users vs maximum users. like joining a server in a video game. if i see its super full, i’ll pick another server. of course, we’d need some large banners to make sure people know they won’t be missing out on other instances.
I think it depends on the community. For entertainment stuff like videos, anime, memes, etc. I’d prefer a bunch of smaller ones. But hobby type communities, where you aren’t only looking at newest posts, I’d rather one big organized community.
For instance, if I want to buy some new headphones then is would be a pain to have to look through 6 different instances for a stickied reccomendation thread.
Oh that’s wild. Its very intresting to see that in 1903 they hadn’t settled on “electro-” as the prefix used to things with electricity.
Yup. I signed up for Lemmy.ml before I realized that. I think it’d be really helpful if the instances set a cap on number of users, so theat when you went to join-Lemmy.org and saw that beehaw has 1.9k users OUT OF 2k, then it’d be more likely to sign up for a different instance.