Lemmy has cleared some early hurdles to grow from near-zero to 60k DAUs in a month. I’ve enjoyed talking to people over the past month in a more friendly and intimate way than on that other site. The main communities are fun and viable but the niche ones are mostly empty. I run a niche hobby community and despite having a few hundred subscribers <5% have ever commented, <0.5% have posted. I think Lemmy needs to be perhaps 10x larger than it is now to be self-sustaining for niche communities.

By which method are you determining status?

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Currently showing sh.itjust.works as 100% online. Are you sure about that?

It’s not just you! sh.itjust.works is down.

why make users set a home instance? i can see a list of communities local to lemmy.world at https://lemmy.world/communities in the [Local] tab, and i can search my home instance at https://lemmy.world/search. i figured a search engine would span instances so users could find things across the lemmy-verse?

cleared cache, your url still gives me no results. in the top right the dropdown as “Ice Orchid”. I’m not sure what that is

Cool, how do I do it? https://www.search-lemmy.com/results?query=ultralight still returns “Found 0 results in 0.01 seconds”

very cool, thanks for the feedback and the site! my question is more along the lines of whether someone interested in a topic would be able to find my community without knowing it existed in the first place?

I created !ultralight@lemmy.world – searching for “ultralight” returns zero results on your site https://search-lemmy.com/results?query=ultralight&page=1 whereas searching for it at least returns something on each lemmy instance i’ve searched

Agreed on the need to adjust mindset. Initially I behaved similarly to how I did on that other site until I realized that Lemmy is different and that’s ok. It’s a lot smaller and federation has its advantages and drawbacks and we’ll see it in action soon enough. Many seek the comfort of the familiar and are not always finding it. Start by appreciating the hard work that has allowed many of us to transition here quite easily. Take a deep breath, look around and realize that we are now playing a different game.

🫘 bean strong 💪

Close! https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll

Always happy to help!

the posts appear but the votes and comments are missing. the “community pinned” post at the top is missing. the stats in the sidebar are way off. compare https://lemmy.world/c/ultralight@lemmy.world

I see, so discovery happens out of band, so in order to find it someone has to already have found it. “Search All” is only searching what has already been found on this particular instance, and so the results can vary depending on where you are.

it shows up but has no votes nor comments. compare to https://lemmy.world/c/ultralight@lemmy.world

Aha, ok! With that in mind I searched some of the “red” status instances for communities containing “ultralight” and couldn’t find !ultralight@lemmy.world; so does this mean in order for users to be able to find my community from their instances, I (or someone else) needs to register for each instance and then subscribe?

Hello! I am still figuring out this federation stuff after having created the community !ultralight@lemmy.world. I’ve heard discussion about how fast lemmy.world is growing and outpacing the other instances, and some discussion how it’s important to spread users out. I wondered if I should recommend instances other than lemmy.world or perhaps even move myself. With that in mind I wanted to see what my new community looked like from other instances. I decided to sample some of the larger instances from https://lemmymap.feddit.de/ - as of 10am July 3, 2023 EDT here’s what I see:

(See table above)

Out of the 13 instances !ultralight@lemmy.world is only really usable from 4 of them, and only up-to-date on one of them, lemmy.world. If this is representative of the state of things generally I’m a bit concerned for the implications that it will funnel everyone onto a single instance and turn lemmy.world into a monolith.