Lemmy, the go-to decentralized Reddit alternative, has been around since 2019 but has some big gaps in its feature offering and its privacy policies.
Many online companies have been training this generation of users into accepting beta products under the guise of “early/ beta access” and delivering half baked semi working platforms for 2 decades. Especially the games industry.
I think users are more able to accept shortcomings than the writer thinks.
The platform is absolutely not ready for an influx of angry Redditors.
If anything, the number of instances exploded, and large instance admins like Ruud are working with lemmy devs on tracking and resolving issues.
I also noticed a lot of users active on the githubs. More pull requests. Custom scripts for browsers, new themes. So this wave seem to bring: Knowledgable server admins, Uservolume to stresstest and new enthusiastic contributors.
Yes, if anything the huge influx of users has been absorbed in a surprisingly painless way, all things considered. We haven’t had any huge outages or downtimes, lemmy.world is still holding at almost 90k users and the memory leak was if not permanently solved then at least temporarily patched within what, 24 hours of its discovery?
Indeed, I am also very impressed with the way it is going. And maybe even more with the way some of the power users/mods/admins/Devs deal with the new reality.
Many online companies have been training this generation of users into accepting beta products under the guise of “early/ beta access” and delivering half baked semi working platforms for 2 decades. Especially the games industry.
I think users are more able to accept shortcomings than the writer thinks.
If anything, the number of instances exploded, and large instance admins like Ruud are working with lemmy devs on tracking and resolving issues.
I also noticed a lot of users active on the githubs. More pull requests. Custom scripts for browsers, new themes. So this wave seem to bring: Knowledgable server admins, Uservolume to stresstest and new enthusiastic contributors.
Edit: example of what I mean: https://lemmy.world/post/1061471
Yes, if anything the huge influx of users has been absorbed in a surprisingly painless way, all things considered. We haven’t had any huge outages or downtimes, lemmy.world is still holding at almost 90k users and the memory leak was if not permanently solved then at least temporarily patched within what, 24 hours of its discovery?
Indeed, I am also very impressed with the way it is going. And maybe even more with the way some of the power users/mods/admins/Devs deal with the new reality.