Death by user count?
Death by user count?
The join-lemmy site no longer shows this instance's card because it's below the active user threshold. How are users supposed to find an instance that fits what they're looking for now?
This exists as well: https://github.com/maltfield/awesome-lemmy-instances
Doesn't this do more harm than good? I don't have time to promote and advertise. I really liked the idea that people could easily find this and join if they wanted to.
I'm not taking down the instance or anything. This serves as a "blog" if I'm the only one posting anything. I'm just a little disappointed that small or new instances aren't easily discoverable at a critical time when performance and uptime are kind of important.
People are flocking to Lemmy over the Reddit API debacle. By listing instances based on user count they're overloading and crashing the same old servers hourly (already), instead of treating instances like a federated decentralized network. I guess we'll see what happens come July...
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I'm not 100% on how I found this place, I think it was https://browse.feddit.de/ I chose this instance because it was small, involved tech and gaming, and so it seemed like a good fit for me. Just bad timing lead to me not being active this weekend, lol ( started vacation) But I think over time it has the possibility to be more active as I explore and post elsewhere. That being said, Lemmy has room to grow in how it federates and connects to communities. I've been writing down my ideas, and I hope when I post them to github they use them or something similar to it.