• designated_fridge@lemmy.world
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      So we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users… for free… Hmm yes that’s going to work.

      People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies.

      We’re in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it’s not going to last.

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        1 year ago

        Let’s have a mass organized bake sale. We’ll call the lemon squares “Lemmy Squares”. People will love it.

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          I just hope they don’t do what YouTube does and interrupt the most important and engaging parts of videos to show ads in the most jarring manner possible. …though it would help if creators helped design their content for ads to have a place to go like how TV used to do.

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            I don’t really see how this relates to my comment. The equivalent would be for Lemmy to insert a funding message in the middle of someone’s post… What seems likely to me is a double wide post at the top of the page with a donation ask or a plan to give users who donate some extra flair or something.

            Also, just use an ad blocker on YouTube or RevancedManager.

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        I’m sure how the ecosystem of Lemmy will play out is that there are a handful, maybe 6 or 7, main instances that require funding and are simply massive with teams committed to them. Then you have the niche medium sized instances that are known for a particular community or two, such as an instance that is well known for its great vegetarian community or whatever. Then you’ll have tiny instances that are used by irl friend groups, or for simply tech savvy people that want a home base instance that they can control.

        We’re already sort of set up like this, but less organized and smaller overall. Many instances have duplicates of the same communities right now which I think will slowly fade away as future updates make it easier to visit/search other instances.

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          I’m expecting the location specific instances to split off though (shout out to my squad fams at aussie.zone) so that they don’t get lost in the mix of the major general communities.

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    But… is that even a good thing? I mean, the point of the fediverse is to distribute the load across instances.

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      The point is that everyone CAN start an instance and become bigger. It’s the users that decide.

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        I like this way of putting it. It’s like that post that was around a few days ago discussing lemmy as being “CEO-proof”.

        It’s not really I guess, but if an instance got big and started being unfriendly/unreasonable to users they could just go to another instance and still be part of the federation.

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      The upside is join-lemmy.org always puts the smaller but growing instances at the top to somewhat distribute the load for new users. Also there are new general purpose instances popping up, I quite like it and as long as there is no drama you can access most of the Fediverse from almost any instance.

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      If it gets too much they can just stop letting people join, can’t they? I think for the beginning a little bit of centralizing will make stuff easier. For the long run it might be less desirable.

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    I did read that @Ruud said in a post that Lemme.world can handle 1 million users as of right now.

    He hopes that other instances get more traction so the crowds are distributed.

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    For some reason, when I tried to sign up for another instance, it wouldn’t send the confirmation emal or load when I tried to send it. I guess this is the only working instance that is easy to get to.

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      For me, it’s because the password I entered didn’t meet the minimum requirements. The instance signup page had some kind of issue with actually letting me know that was the problem, it just gave me the spinning pinwheel forever. I refreshed and tried changing the password to something more complex and it worked instantly

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        For some reason, I was able to bring the same name, password, and everything here and it worked. That other server did want a rather complex password and both said the password was “medium” strength. The first one I tried did return me to the landing page as if it took, and said “email sent” without an email actually arriving. I’m guessing that it was just buggy.

      • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
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        Might have to test that one out yourself. Ofcourse you can subscribe to kbin.social communities from your lemmy.world instance but if you can actually add them that’s another question. Let me know :P

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    came from reddit. lemmy principles seem to align with me open for everyone and communities run their own instance if required

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    I am happy to contribute! I think it’s time for me to move on from Reddit. I am excited to help this platform grow and become something great - I just need to become less of a lurker.

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    Please someone tell me how to delete accounts off of memmy app it drives me nuts seeing both because it loads the one I don’t want to load.

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    Over in kbin.social… wondering if there will be a simple way to consolidate duplicate magazines/communities

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      It’d be interesting to have metamagazines or something along the like. There’s a lot of repeat mags out there that would benefit from an easy way to share/federate at a smaller scale than per-instance.

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        I’d like something in this vein to view multiple communities of the same topic at once (like folders/multi-reddits/etc.) too.

        Another idea, if possible, might be to have Lemmy search for existing communities/magazines in linked instances as you’re trying to make a community, similar to how it searches for already posted links, so that folks are given a heads up to those existing communities. If they want to go on to make their own local version then it’s just up to them.