Yeah, I agree. And I really appreciate your perspective.
I don’t think growing Lemmy and funnelling in users works out. We don’t grow. We’re somewhere between 40k and 50k active users and there is no trend in either direction.
Last year, I despised beehaw for doing their own thing and not respecting how federation is supposed to work. That is connecting people and not being a patchwork of small spaces that don’t talk to each other because of small minds/perspectives… I think I changed my mind a bit. Their way of doing things turned out to foster better behaviour than on other instances. It’s still detrimental to the idea of a federated platform, but still… The effects aren’t just negative.
I think we have lots of issues here. The culture is a bit different from what I’d like it to be. Furthermore, it’s too much discussing the news and not much else that’d be meaningful for my life. It’s too small for lots of things that this place could excel in and that you won’t find anywhere else.
And the technology really isn’t that good. Progress is super slow, they don’t implement the things the users need and wish for. And it doesn’t foster growth or nice behaviour.
And I think that’s the main issue. We’d need a solid basis to build something upon. It needs to be shiny, have excellent moderation tools and user-facing features. All of this has been requested but except for things like instance blocking by the user, that doesn’t even block their users, we didn’t get much.
My personal wish is that new approaches like PieFed will go ahead and provide that to us. I think I’d like to host an instance with that and then invite some people. As of now I didn’t advertise for Lemmy because I think neither the software, nor the atmosphere/community, nor the content here is worth convincing anyone to join. At this point I’m just waiting for one of the three to get anywhere.
Yeah, I agree. And I really appreciate your perspective.
I don’t think growing Lemmy and funnelling in users works out. We don’t grow. We’re somewhere between 40k and 50k active users and there is no trend in either direction.
Last year, I despised beehaw for doing their own thing and not respecting how federation is supposed to work. That is connecting people and not being a patchwork of small spaces that don’t talk to each other because of small minds/perspectives… I think I changed my mind a bit. Their way of doing things turned out to foster better behaviour than on other instances. It’s still detrimental to the idea of a federated platform, but still… The effects aren’t just negative.
I think we have lots of issues here. The culture is a bit different from what I’d like it to be. Furthermore, it’s too much discussing the news and not much else that’d be meaningful for my life. It’s too small for lots of things that this place could excel in and that you won’t find anywhere else.
And the technology really isn’t that good. Progress is super slow, they don’t implement the things the users need and wish for. And it doesn’t foster growth or nice behaviour.
And I think that’s the main issue. We’d need a solid basis to build something upon. It needs to be shiny, have excellent moderation tools and user-facing features. All of this has been requested but except for things like instance blocking by the user, that doesn’t even block their users, we didn’t get much.
My personal wish is that new approaches like PieFed will go ahead and provide that to us. I think I’d like to host an instance with that and then invite some people. As of now I didn’t advertise for Lemmy because I think neither the software, nor the atmosphere/community, nor the content here is worth convincing anyone to join. At this point I’m just waiting for one of the three to get anywhere.