This sounds like a bug to me. At a minimum, it should be renamed to local subscribers rather than imply that it's the total count.
This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it's better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife's edge of creation, a new birth.
Just not using the app is better than using the app.
Somewhat, but it's just the "how's the weather?" of this community because most everyone is here from Reddit, so it's a starting point to me. I don't think Lemmy exists just to spite Reddit, and I participate in discussions having nothing to do with the subject.
Underrated comment. I picked it because I had no idea what I was doing and it sounded all-encompassing and I wanted access to everything. I didn't even know what an instance was. I just picked it because it sounded like a good guess to get access to all of Lemmy.
I'm seeing some very encouraging signs here. There's a lot of discussion about the platform itself on the platform (I'm looking at you Ham Radio nuts talking about talking on the radio...) but there's a fair chunk of people discussing links and topics of interest, the thing it needs most to survive. In other words, people are actually using it for its intended purpose and seeing some success in doing so.
The technical issues are actively being solved as the platform explodes in size practically overnight.
As for that ineffable quality of how the community feels? That has yet to be determined. The bots are on the way, and it's up to humans to choose how they will conduct themselves in the face of hostile bots and astroturfers who wish to sow discord.
It's been said to death but at heart, I've always felt that when it comes to piracy, it's a service issue, not a cost issue.
Except for you Adobe. That's a cost issue.
It's part of the migration plan to help users move away from the platform.
This is hilarious. On my Desktop, which is quickly becoming my preferred interface for the moment, I just keep opening new tabs and letting it work when I post so I can move on with reading other content.
I ain't even mad. You've got a good heart, soldier.
I noticed that I don't have a karma or upvote counter for my account, and I felt free. Let's keep it that way. It just encourages more ego and skin in the discussion ahead of focusing on the content and further penalizes users who sometimes have an unpopular, but still civil and constructive, opinion. I don't want an echo chamber effect.
I imagine that implementing such a metric could become quite confusing if it turned out that not all instances permitted all communities in the future. If this is already the case, please excuse me. I've been on Lemmy for one hour total. Solving that consistency problem couldn't be easier than just not solving it.
Running Connect for Lemmy here on Android. It seems nice and minimalist. I was a little dissuaded from trying Jerboa with some of the negative reviews.
I see this upcoming election will be the final one. Nice work.