I posted a gif in /c/kidsbeingderps. I am able to play the gif, but the people on other instances like sh.itjust.works and beehaw are unable to play the gif. They’re getting ‘No video with supporting format and mimetype found’ error.
On a sidenote, I see a comment on beehaw that I don’t see on lemmyworld. The comment is many hours old, so I don’t think it’s a matter of sync delay.
I think one of the problems is that they’re showcasing large instances on join-lemmy. It’d be nice to have a rotation of smaller instances to spread the load out.
would be great, I have a fair amount of extra capacity so can certainly take on some extra load! Im sure many of the smaller instances can.
Yeah, another option is for larger instances to stop accepting and send people around.
That might not be a good user experience. May be all signup buttons randomly take them to a different instance to signup based on the load?
I just mean they suggest something like, “We’re overflowing with users. Checkout some of our partners here: [blah blah]”. Nothing unexpected.
The problem is the friction. I tried to bring over one of my favorite subreddits here. Here’s the response from one person who tried to sign up.
"Just tried Lemmy and it left me with a very bad impression.
I signed up and tried to login, after giving my username and password, the screen is stuck at the loading state.
Tried reloading the tab and login again, got the same issue.
I had to open my email, confirm the link from the mail there, and then login to resolve the issue. This is the usual approach for signup on any service, but nowhere on the Lemmy site it was mentioned to check and verify the link sent to my email.
I had the same issue with Mastodon too (tried it when most people ditched Twitter and moved there).
And a really frustrating thing for me on Lemmy site is, I can’t open a post on a new tab. If I open a post to see comments and came back, the feed refreshes.
I don’t think Lemmy is going to have huge communities like Reddit (it would be the same case as Mastodon)."
Now it’s nothing big, and people don’t realize it’s like this mainly because it’s a small site that is growing rapidly, but they don’t want to go through the pains.
I think there is hope. But Lemmy is still very new and in beta. It has a lot of maturing to do to take on the general public. I think it’s also related to the issue with flooded servers not taking load and setting bad first impressions.
Right. Fortunately, I think there’s already enough of a community to sustain lemmy even if the Big Migration doesn’t end up happening as expected. A slower growth would suit it well.
If anything, it’s opening the doors to other things. Lemmy may not be the future… but Reddit certainly isn’t.