This reddit post likely has tens if not hundreds of thousands of views, look at the top comment.

Lemmy is losing so many potential new users because the UX sucks for the vast majority of people.

What can we do?

  • Die4Ever@programming.devEnglish
    6·
    5 days ago

    Would I be decreasing people’s operating costs if I just opened an account on example.lol so most of my interaction was on my home instance?

    Likely no. If one person on the instance is subscribed to a remote community, everything is synchronized anyways. If no one is subscribed to the remote community then it’s probably a very small and low activity community anyways, which means it’s a drop in the bucket difference.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      So is a large part of lemmy.world cached on sh.itjust.works’ server? Does Pixelfed, Loops or Peertube work the same way? I could see images or video being more of a burden to serve like that. Or does AP sync the metadata like thumbnail, video title, description, comments etc. and the video itself is torrented straight from the host server?

      • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        5·
        5 days ago

        Pretty much, yes. Images is cached. Video is not. However PeerTube supports P2P.