eventually it’ll run dry - because the contributors are leaving the site
I somewhat disagree... you haven't considered the increased incentive for occasional posters to become more regular contributors as existing contributors leave.
As the volume of contributions reduces, each contribution is more likely to garner engagement - those sweet sweet endorphins released when someone upvotes or otherwise engages with your post.
I agree. If lemmy continues to grow, inevitably some servers will be shit, but I imagine there will be other non-federated or less-federated instances. beehaw has already started down that path.
Trolls are generally looking for maximum carnage, so I imagine there's less incentive / reward posting somewhere like lemmy.
This will ultimately increase the number of users who can be advertised to.
For every person who is engaged about this there are a dozen that don't understand what an API is and will happily switch over to another app from the app store if it has cat gifs.
They would have to show their books as part of an IPO anyway, and everyone already knows its not profitable. It's not like he accidentally dropped a big secret here.
Hard disagree.
Getting over-run by blog spam is entirely foreseeable.
With a single dead mod it's entirely foreseeable that we would have to relocate at some point which could be devastating when trying to preserve whatevers left of the community.
Looking at the list of instances there doesn't seem to be any really perfect options.
Honestly I would be most comfortable with an instance administrated by several people. It just increases the odds that admins will know what they're doing and not lose interest.
This is as good a place as any to ask... where should we set up shop? This community's sole mod @Zoe8338@lemmy.ml doesn't seem to be active.
A number of different self-hosting related communities have popped up in the last few days. I'm concerned that without a single focal point we won't hit a critical mass.
Is this the best place for us though? @Zoe8338@lemmy.ml is the only mod and they don't seem to be active.
Well yeah but they're two different things.
Lemmy is a forum like reddit.
Mastodon is microblogging like twitter.
yeah that one has one subscriber!
Not really. It's incredibly frustrating and I've def lost some faith in humanity.
I thought /r/selfhosted would be ready to jump but everyone is like "but there's no users on lemmy" and "you'll split the community" and "we're going to go dark for two days - that will teach them!"
Consequently there's been no support for any single refuge.
Additionally people have set up several communities here with similar names in the past but now mods aren't responding so it's all a bit of a mess.
The bulk of reddit has already gone back to reddit.
Don't get me wrong, lemmy is great just the way it is. We don't need a continued influx from reddit (although lets see what happens on 1 July).