Bro I don’t even know yassificaton is. Use normal english

lemming? I couldnt tell

I don’t mind reddit content. I want reddit without using reddit it’s that simpe

Lemmy is never going to be as big as Reddit. It financially cannot be.

Why not? That’s exactly the kind of assumption I’m questioning.

Federation is supposed to make scaling easier to distribute. More users can mean more instances, more admins, more donations, more infrastructure, and costs spread across the network.

“It can’t grow because we can’t afford growth” isn’t some fundamental property of federation. It’s an infrastructure problem to solve.

And “it doesn’t want to be” keeps coming up. Lemmy is software. It doesn’t want anything. Different users, admins, and developers clearly have very different ideas about what it should become.

I’m interested in seeing how far it can go, not declaring its ceiling in advance.

is that why lemmy has no hardware resources - they all communists?
also - are non communists allowed to join?

That’s just semantics. An alternative competes for the same users.

Your own source says Lemmy was created because Reddit was banning their communities. The whole point was giving those people somewhere else to go.

Call it an alternative, competitor, or communist escape pod. 😂 The question is the same:

What good is an alternative to Reddit if almost nobody adopts it?

because while I can - it wont do anything if lemmy is at 35k MAU. need distribution and volume. has to be onpar with large plaeyers

at the momen 35k MAU is 4x less than my wife cookie blog monthly sorry

comes election when reddit sabotages all news and only ships corporate propaganda you dont have to have an independent influence?

see issue is - most non techie people wont even understand why they being banned. thats the problem. me running my own instance solves issue for me, does nothing for others.

I dont want corporate control. I like lemmy. but its not working - it needs to be much much bigger to really affect reality

people are not happy with it. most people leave.

Removed by mod

Jesus Christ, everyone here seems to have invented their own definition of what Lemmy is.

Lemmy doesn’t have competitors. It isn’t competing. It isn’t what you think it is.

Except the actual Lemmy developers describe it as:

“a decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators”

They’ve been calling it a Reddit alternative since at least 2020.

So no, I’m not imposing some imaginary “corporate framing” onto Lemmy. I’m using basically the same framing its own developers used to explain why they built it.

And “there is no manager or corporate goal” doesn’t mean adoption suddenly becomes meaningless. If you’re building an alternative to corporate-controlled link aggregators, whether anybody actually adopts the alternative fucking matters.

Otherwise what are we celebrating? Software existing?

And that’s why 35k MAU matters to me. Reddit has spent years handing alternatives opportunities on a silver platter, and Lemmy hasn’t capitalized on them.

You can personally define success as “35k enthusiasts are happy.” Fine.

But stop pretending your definition of Lemmy is the official one while telling everyone else “you don’t understand what Lemmy is.” Even the developers explicitly called it a Reddit alternative.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you’re interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

For a link aggregator, this means a user registered on one server can subscribe to forums on any other server, and can have discussions with users registered elsewhere.

It is an easily self-hostable, decentralized alternative to Reddit and other link aggregators, outside of their corporate control and meddling.

I wanted to leave reddit. but ther is nothing and noone here that why

trust me - I really wanted it to work

MAU measures whether people actually use the platform.

And Reddit has spent those six years practically begging users to leave:

• Killed third-party apps
• Locked down its API
• Pushed logins and the official app
• Increased ads
• Monetized user data
• Pissed off moderators and communities

Yet Lemmy is still around 35k MAU.

At some point “we’re still new” isn’t an excuse. Your biggest competitor keeps shooting itself in the foot and you’re still not growing. its not working chief

you missing the point - I dont care about my content. its fluff imo.
but this network will never go anywhere without content. that the whole reasons I was trying I didnt realize there was a host of other issues.

lke noone is going to jump into a network with moderation more severe than reddit. that was the whole point of getting away from reddit.

this is road to nowhere for lemmy.

we are basically saying - all users should be super tech savvy, host their own server, not worry about being banned left and right.

whos gonna stay on those conditions?

Some of us consider [data disappearing] a good thing.

I love to have privacy. I hate when im forcible deplatformed and decontented. hate hate it.

Choosing to delete your data is privacy. Losing it because an admin had no working backup is data loss. Those are completely different things. If you want to burn your account every year, great. But someone else may have spent five years writing troubleshooting guides, moderating a community, or building useful discussions. They should be able to expect their home instance to have a backup.

I thought you were a repost bot when I first saw your content.

I created two new accounts and both were banned after roughly 10 posts overnight. No warning. No “hey, are you automating this?” No request to slow down or tag the account. Just assumption --> bot/spam -> ban.

Also - automation is not even fucking illegal on lemmy.world!!! do people not realize that?

Note that reddit does not do that. post as much as the fuck you want. Imagine new lemmy user doing this and just getting banned. wth. resson for 35k MAU

I haven’t personally experienced any file size limits

External hosting isn’t a substitute for local media hosting. Hotlinking gets blocked all the time, URLs expire or posts get removed. Authentication gets added. Hosts disappear. HTTP headers and referrer policies break embeds. Some major platforms deliberately make direct linking difficult.

If I want media attached to a post to remain available, the reliable option is for the instance to actually host a copy., 5 MB is tiny for modern media.

Are you suggesting that people with post history should be immune to bans?

hell No. Obviously if someone posts CSAM, malware, threats, or other illegal content, remove it and ban them.

I’m talking about proportionality.

If somebody has contributed hundreds of legitimate posts for months and then an admin decides their posting volume is too expensive, banning the account and wiping everything they’ve contributed is insane infrastructure management.

And on the other extreme, I had brand-new accounts banned after around 10 posts simply because admins apparently decided they looked like bots.

There’s a gigantic spectrum between “do nothing” and “nuke the account.”

not even a warning? not even a pm? ffs really? Rate-limit them. Remove the offending posts. Temporarily suspend them. Communicate.

A ban system existing doesn’t mean every problem requires the maximum penalty.

I don’t concern myself with who can see my posts.

up to you, you are you. federation is a social network. Most people posting to communities presumably want other people to see and interact with what they post.

An entire instance suddenly becoming unable to interact with another instance is absolutely relevant to those users.

“content” is ephemeral. What are you actually losing?

Potentially years of knowledge.

You actually gave the perfect example yourself: that obscure six-year-old troubleshooting post that solves somebody’s problem.

Today’s shitpost is disposable. Today’s detailed technical answer might be somebody’s Google result five years from now.

The whole point I’m making is that users should get to decide what’s disposable, not discover that their instance admin decided it for them by never setting up backups.

I know many people see it this way - where basically lemmy data is temporary. “ephemeral lemmy instances” is what they are 🤣