Im joining in on the reddit ditching thing, and was kinda worried at first that i wouldnt be able to like use it the way i did reddit as it feels like a whole new place, but after engaging with posts and people and actually being a part of lemmy rather than being lurk mode all the time i was pleasantly surprised with how easy it is to become a member of the community, theres a reasonable amount of subs (or whatever the other word for em is) that fit my interests, enough linux content and shitposting for my liking, and the overall random posts made by people equally fed up with Leddit. (also i admit i used reddit a little cus there was this post on the fedora sub showing how to fix a sound issue i been having after a recent update)
About the costs - someone else said this is a feature, not a bug. :)
The idea is that the costs will keep most instances small, which is great. We dont want big instances. Thats the point of being distributed. Its just a mindset that people need to learn. Pick smaller instances you trust for better performance. You can still subscribe to anything you want from other instances.
Ultimately I agree with you. It’s mostly going to come down to getting more people acquainted to this mindset.
Yeah I agree, and i think it will come naturally. When lemmy.ml starts to get slow due to thousands of users, then some of them will switch to a small instance and just subscribe to lemmy.ml communities from there.
Its pretty brilliant in its design, all of this.
It’s taken me a week to figure all that out, but I think if someone explained it correctly in an infographic, that would make it much easier for people to understand.
Or a short like 5 minute video explaining the whole process that’s easily digestible, post that shit to reddit and see how it goes.
Yeah, that would definitely help. It needs to be visual/infographic style. Or that guy who writes with a marker on the whiteboard and draws the infographic as the narration happens.
MinutePhysics? I think they’re a whole animation company that does work like that on comission, might be getting them confused with another group though.
There’s also this: https://www.voomly.com/doodly
I think this idea is great but the discovery of instances for a new user is “what is the Lemmy site showing me” which is almost all larger instances.
I’m kind of confused by this, to be honest, because wouldn’t there being a cost of entry specifically limit the amount of people who are able to create an instance, combined with the fact that the small few who can run an instance, and see it grow, would then decrease more and more over time?
Then wouldn’t people find the main instances with the largest numbers and, with smaller communities unable to afford the minimal traffic, see the instances start to combine into the larger community where it’d be mutually affordable?
I mean, early on you might get people wanting to make an instance and learning they can’t commit to it any longer and breaking apart, but I’d imagine any barrier that doesn’t have to do with a barrier for discovery/reducing the barrier for cross-navigation (e.g. fediverse) would eventually lead to filtering a select few. I’m not 100% or anything, but ya know, seems like it’d go that way.