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[-] cynar@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is not ready for a full influx. The (fairly minor) influx recently almost brought several instances to their knees. The technology needs to have the kinks worked out of it. Most of us here are accepting of its current flaws, and want to work to improve it. The average redditer won't be.

On top of that, the community needs to stabilise and grow slowly for now. It's like wine. If you drink 100 bottles in a week, it will likely kill you. The same amount over a year and it's fine. It takes time to filter out the toxicity from new redditers, and integrate them. As we grow, we will be able to handle more, but not right now. I still remember the influx from digg to Reddit. The fundamental feel of it never quite recovered. Lemmy has that feel currently, we want it to stay as best we can.

[-] just_change_it@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A counterpoint to the idea that the clunkiness that keeps away the masses should be Threads. A couple of days in and they are full with hate and bullshit because they had millions right away. I know the format is different from here, but I think the concept still applies.

Slow steady growth of people who have to think critically to really use the platform is better than explosive growth from every ignoramus signing up to spew drivel. At least that's my perception of it all.

[-] astral_avocado@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 year ago

They're full of hate and bullshit because it's just the entire American populace who uses Instagram. I'm unfortunately one of these people who reads Instagram comments and they were always full of terrible people saying objectively shitty things.

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Slow and steady is definitely best. New lemmings can learn the new (and hopefully better) netiquette, then help spread it to the next wave.

The other option is what happened to threads. Loudest wins, and the negative Right are VERY loud.

[-] realitista@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

This is a good point. As a 16 year Reddit user, the digg migration was really the beginning of the long end. Going slow is indeed the best way. And honestly, being big is not even necessarily a good thing for this type of community.

[-] zefiax@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As 15+ yr old reddit user, can't agree more. The digg migration was the best and worst thing to happen to reddit imo. It really boosted communities yes however it also significantly lowered the content quality.

[-] Shadesto@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I think one of the major issues is how poorly we're doing at directing people to individual instances.

Lemmy works fine if we have a bunch of good / stable instances created for a variety of different topics and users spread out. All the kinks and things do need to be worked out, but at the same time there needs to be a better way of load-balancing people to different instances. Either that or the entire backend needs to be re-written to allow better load-balancing. I can't imagine lemmy.world can survive another major influx of users.

We're just a small small portion of the reddit userbase. Lemmy will explode if there's ever a mass migration.

[-] pearsche@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

Yup. This place is currently fine for people who can stomach the quirks and missing features and you don't want them to come, feel overwhelmed about how it isn't truly like reddit yet and then leave and not consider coming back

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