For those that weren’t there for the mastadon growth, it came is several waves. the reddit blackout begins tomorrow 6/12. Are the Lemmy sysadmins expecting a second wave of growth? If so how big?
I’m wondering if there’s anything motivated users of Lemmy can do to help out and make the transition for folks easy.
I want Lemmy to succeed and fir people trying it out to like it and stay.
i dont think the wave has stopped yet
Not sure, but I hope hundreds of thousands come in. Realistically, I doubt it will be that many, and idk if the instances could handle that kind of load even if it did happen.
But we can hope all the above!
The AMA has led some subreddits to not only go private early, but to also state that it would be indefinite until there were changes. /r/videos is the biggest one I know. So we’ll probably have another wave if it gets bad enough / there is admin intervention.
In any federation based solution, the big issue is will server owners be able to afford the surge in popularity.
Since there will probably be a big increase in users, some kind of “allocation” mechanism would be great. Lemmy.ml already told people to use other instances because they are not able to handle the load. However, I guess the main problem will be that people new to the Fediverse will just try to join the biggest site.
I was also thinking about running my own instance to help but I am not sure how the whole legal aspect of it works. Like, if I’m responsible for all the content posted on my server. At some point it would just become impossible to moderate.
I’ve shared similar thoughts and concerns, particularly regarding legal aspects. The one downside of the federated environment is the lack of cash to afford things like legal and cyber protection that larger enterprises can afford. Donations can only do so much I feel.
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The join page is definitely the issue. I had already joined lemmy.ml before I read that they were encouraging people to join other instances. Perhaps I should have read the page more closely, but if it was that big of an issue, make the warning/request more prevalent.
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I’ve seen this suggested elsewhere but a centralized “sign up wizard” website would be really useful for new users. Something that holds your hand through the process and explains each step. It could have you pick an instance by showing the list of federated ones, and would then hand you off to that website for the actual sign up process.
Yeah, we shouldn’t fear centralized solutions when this is the type of solution they are solving