Dr. Santa

In a normal, nonfederated site, sure. But when you throw instances on top of it, it gets a bit more complex.

On another note, I don’t believe we’re gonna get a lot of people coming here who aren’t redditors.

I at least modify the layout Windows to be more like 7.

Or just specific software that is not available on Linux.

It’s completely necessary.

How else does one click hotkeys while standing?

That new ugly UI.

It’s so damn cluttered.

Bad news, Reddit is a zombie.

Family Guy.

Yeah, “community” is kinda bland.

And I feel it has the potential to make newbies confused with instance.

I feel like most of the problem would be physical hardware. Costly servers that would need to be able to meet Lemmy’s growing demands.

I’m not sure how much optimization from the software side can be done to reduce resource requirements. There’s certainly things that can be done to improve user experience though.

One aspect I’d love (and is apparently in the works) is swapping instances while keeping your history. A migration tool of sorts. Would help.

Still the roughness is sorta endearing in its own way. But I don’t think it’d be endearing to most people.

Or maybe nonprofit organizations. Though I’m having a harder time imagining why they’d need a social network site, especially if it’s federated with our shit posting “sublemmies” or whatever we’re calling them here.

Unfortunately, the reality is that it may become necessary.

Donations can be a saving grace if enough people donate regularly. But such is dependent on people’s willingness, their own financial stability, and how stressed servers are (how much it’ll cost to upgrade and/or maintain infrastructure.)

It’s great if it’s viable. Means there’s less outside influence. But that’s if.

As far as I’m aware, Wikipedia has been able to maintain it purely off donations. But I’m not sure if Lemmy could.

Maybe? One thing Lemmy does have going for it is that the majority of users seem to be aware how… Fragile? the fediverses can be. There’s arguably more passion behind the users and maybe willing to throw support out.

But hard to say.

Chili does sound like it’d be better with rice though.

I think Lemmy’s biggest challenges are server stability, increased complexity to use (most don’t understand things like instances), and low awareness from others. I only learned about it a day or two ago. Signed up out of curiosity.

But if Lemmy gets even more popular then the various popular instances are going to be stressed. It looks unstable to newcomers who go back to Reddit.

I signed up for lemmy.world originally, constantly had gateway errors. Lemm.ee seems more stable due to lower traffic.

But others may not be able to recognize that. Even if they did, might not want to create new accounts for several instances and go back to starting from 0.