Reposting what I posted in our Matrix chat server:
Elon is learning why social platforms usually provide reasonably priced APIs. Wonder if Reddit will be hit by the same thing.
kenvald
joined 1 year ago
I’ve been trying a lot of things to try to get traffic here.
Would you mind sharing some of the things you have tried? Since there now are a couple of settled "main" instances it seems real hard to grow organically as a smaller instance. Is there something we can do to help other than word of mouth or donate?
I've been on the same trail! But also no idea what it's called... Hocking is really great to hike around.
That's a great point lol
If only I was young again and could play the game 5h per day, then maybe I'd be good lol
Agreed. Especially the first couple maps I played I tried to flank the other team sometimes just to get stuck. Thought it was lag or something but nope, just an invisible wall with no indication.
The random stopping hasn't really happened to me though. Maybe some weird collision borders.
Didn't this happen once already in the last year? Maybe I'm thinking of another delivery/postal company.
It's giving me a good reason to start weaning off reddit. If my computer's been on it's always been highly likely that it was open in a browser tab.
Now I just gotta try and remember what I used to do before reddit lol
Makes sense and I hope you're right! Can't tell you how many subreddits I saw suffixed by "new" or "2" lol
I've had the same thoughts. Just looking at Lemmy's list of instances to join there are already hundreds of them. Many with duplicate topics. Where is everyone going? Which one will become the main instance for a given topic?
But I guess that's what happened with subreddits as well(?) I wasn't there from day one, so I don't truly know. But there appear to have always existed one main subreddit for a topic, and then dozens of subreddits to cover all the subsections and niche areas of the topic. Looking at it like that it appears that the fractures have always existed. They just all existed under the same parent domain instead of under multiple different ones which is where we're going now.
At this point I don't dare to even make any assumptions. Some sources say the evidence is damning. Others, not so much. I'm just gonna wait and hope that people don't go too crazy no matter what happens.
On Reddit everything I saw usually had thousands of comments already since I never sorted by new. Nothing really to add that would be seen by anyone. Over almost a decade on Reddit I think I posted at most 20-30 times.
Lemmy definitely feels more approachable because of the smaller size of the communities. But then If it becomes massive I'll probably slow down my activity again because of the same reasons mentioned above.