I know we are temporarily non-lemmy, but we will reunite soon. Here's some relevant :reddit-logo: comments:
The lemmyverse currently has 54 instances, and 1.2K monthly active users.
Yeah, with numbers like that they're going to need to get the word out a whole lot more.
As of the writing of this post, we have 425 people online, which is pretty typical.
Thousands??? Last I checked Lemmy had 460 monthly users. That means a large majority of those "communities" don't really exist. With that few people, even 1 "community" is going to be looking mighty dead.
Mastadon has 10 million users and people still complain about how dead it is. Lemmy and their 460 users?? LOL.
I can't figure out why it keeps being brought up. It would crumble under any amount of real traffic. Best I can figure is all 460 of their users are shilling on reddit.
There's a bunch more but I'm not really trying to make any point besides, "huh, look at that" so I will not put in any more effort.
There are no plans to federate with lemmy.ml that I know of, I feel like that's just your headcanon, and federation with lemmygrad has been described by admins as "maybe eventually, not right away"
I have mixed feelings about the whole thing tbh. staying fully independent has its upsides, and I think struggle sessions between here and lemmygrad.ml would be counterproductive and possibly inevitable. Though this site has changed a lot
The upgraded software puts federation on the table, but that will have to be a community decision. I don't particularly mind one way or another.
It might not be a bad idea to wait and see how Lemmy copes with the Redditors.
Well with our relative sizes of userbase, a wait and see approach is an option, but it isn't a neutral one. If we join we could affect the outcome
We definitely need to not federated just with lemmygrad, because then it'll just be fighting. Our main usefulness is on lemmy attacking libs
that's where my mind went as well. a united front against the tidal wave of libs seems good. 1 degree of separation from explicitly lib instances like beehaw, so we can still yell at them a bit on lemmy.ml posts (neutral ground) but don't have to see their shit directly as much
But I don't think everyone on this site wants to be involved in a posting war. Whether or not leaving the little box at the top set to only Local (the default) would be enough for our threads to remain relatively safe places while others who want to engage with lemmy can browse All is hard to guess.
The main issue is that the lemmy.ml usership would also have access to our threads, and the predditor influx means that there will be a few more people screeching about "tankies" etc, but maybe that will end up being cathartic to our userbase because they'll be highly fair game to dogpile.
I also have an account on lemmygrad, and it almost never happens. You very rarely see someone commenting from lemmy who isn't comrade or banned soon.
Fair enough
it would be cool to have private (to our instance) communities and public communities honestly
I agree!
I would absolutely love the occasional lib wandering in and getting pounded in real time. It was the best part of the sub and when it happens here it's so much more fun because it updates live.
I'd like to see it tried at any rate. If it turns out to be more trouble than it's worth, well it wouldn't be the first time the admins reverted a change.
lemmy.ml seems to be about as "leftist" as the old subreddit. The liberals tend to funnel over to their own instances that wouldn't federate with us.
that's why we should also federate with raddle.me and sit back in a form of advanced centrism.