1y ago

Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users

Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

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The problem with lemmy is that it's not 100% stable. I like it more than Reddit but at least 20% of time lemmy is overloaded, down, not refreshing or else.
- I haven't had that problem at all. Maybe a month ago, but now its stable. On the other hand I suppose if might be relative to the instance you joined?
  
  There always some issues. It was unusable a couple days ago for me. Whilst I can tolerate it for now, that’s a huge barrier for people especially newcomers.
- Lemmy isn't overloaded. Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml are.
  People need to move to other instances. Lemmy was never designed to have main central instances. There are supposed to be many smaller and more specific ones and people choose the ones that fit their usage.
  
  Yes and no. Bigger servers can see more posts and communities on other servers because of how the federation works. I have an account on a small instance and an account on lemmy.world, and my All feed has way more content on lemmy.world. I've also run into issues finding and subscribing to communities on the small instance.
  If you're on a large instance, there's a much higher chance that someone else has searched for the community you're looking for already and the server knows about it.
  Less technical users aren't going to understand any of this.
- Unlike Reddit, where no users have ever seen a message that said "you broke Reddit" with a sad snoo...
  Reddit is also not 100% stable; Lemmy is just experiencing growing pains. Here's to hoping it only gets better
- That's a problem especially with lemmy.world . They took the brunt of the Reddit migration and had to massively adjust their servers to accommodate the influx of users and communities. Other instances have been more stable
- Basic shit like linking to comments doesn't even work on the website, let alone the apps. If I click the link icon on your post, it links to the top comment to it instead. Clicking Show Context on that page also does nothing.
  
  That used to work but I think the update broke it. Really annoying
- also the apps often have a lot of bugs or issues in general. i would love to use lemmy more, but Liftoff can't even sort my profile comments by new. i click on it.. nothing happens. and if i just quickly switch to another app (clicking a link that opens the browser etc), and come back.. everything is reset and i have to search the post i was again etc.
  because such things i don't use lemmy as often i would like..another issue is that lemmy isn't supported on older browsers and the devs just tell you to update or get another one.. yeaahh nah thanks. not gonna switch or destroy my browser (newer browser versions are often shitty.. just look at chrome who nags you all the time) just because of lemmy. so.. i wait for this issues to be fixed to then be able to use it more. before this happens, the user experience is just too frustrating.
  
  I know it's like beating a dead horse, but sync is actually pretty fantastic and hasn't skipped a beat for me yet. Connect I was afraid to comment on posts because it would refresh the whole page on me and lose my spot.
  
  another issue is that lemmy isn't supported on older browsers and the devs just tell you to update or get another one..
  Does old.lemmy.world work with older browsers?
  
  for most parts of old lemmy.world, it does. it's the only way for me of using lemmy on my normal browser. before that i used the portable version of firefox.

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