I have a discord server that consists entirely of people I’ve met in person, from high school, college, and work. It has less than 20 people on it. I think that there’s going to be a ton of growing pains, especially with how immature the software stack is, and how fragmented the communities will end up.
For many people who operate or join instances, they will end up interacting with a very small number of people in the instance just like the discord server I made; a few people and not much content initially. Sure, people will begin migrating, but this type of link aggregation site works best when there is a lot of people. Considering the focus that this server has, I can see it succeeding, but it’s going to take a while before we see the type of massive growth that Reddit saw, particularly because of the adaptation to federated content. Having 10 technology communities across 10 instances makes it more difficult to see content that is relevant or get any amount of interaction other than with the same select people
I’d like to see this and other issues like better linking of communities from within an instance or browsing communities on another instance resolved soon. The user interaction needs to improve and be more seamless for people to not give up immediately, considering all of the other tedious work people will need to do to find relevant communities. Also, federation seems to be struggling on some servers; on lemmy.ca, this post has no comments, whereas the original has 4-5. kbin.social is broken because of cloudflare. Things are too inconsistent and clunky to be usable and most servers are practically dead.
I have a discord server that consists entirely of people I’ve met in person, from high school, college, and work. It has less than 20 people on it. I think that there’s going to be a ton of growing pains, especially with how immature the software stack is, and how fragmented the communities will end up.
For many people who operate or join instances, they will end up interacting with a very small number of people in the instance just like the discord server I made; a few people and not much content initially. Sure, people will begin migrating, but this type of link aggregation site works best when there is a lot of people. Considering the focus that this server has, I can see it succeeding, but it’s going to take a while before we see the type of massive growth that Reddit saw, particularly because of the adaptation to federated content. Having 10 technology communities across 10 instances makes it more difficult to see content that is relevant or get any amount of interaction other than with the same select people
I’d like to see this and other issues like better linking of communities from within an instance or browsing communities on another instance resolved soon. The user interaction needs to improve and be more seamless for people to not give up immediately, considering all of the other tedious work people will need to do to find relevant communities. Also, federation seems to be struggling on some servers; on lemmy.ca, this post has no comments, whereas the original has 4-5. kbin.social is broken because of cloudflare. Things are too inconsistent and clunky to be usable and most servers are practically dead.