In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.
My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.
Now I’m taking a break. I won’t post anything or I’ll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content 😢?)
But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.
However… I’m just curious.
Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?
Edit: I will still post stuff. I’ll just post a lot less!
About #2: you have any suggestion on how you could achieve that and still be federated?
It seem like you would need a central “oficial” instance that defines who is the “real” AskLemmy, etc…
But yeah, I really want to hear if you have ideas on how achieve this and maintain it as a federation.
If I were to redesign Lemmy, I would design it be like Reddit, but without the corporate centralization, so basically each subreddit would be it’s own instance, and they can federate or defedarate with other subreddits. I wouldn’t design it to where each instance tries to be it’s own full fledged Reddit alternative like right now. That’s a much cleaner design, but the big issue with it is that hosting the instances is a pain and so most people can’t do it.
Therefore, my much more realistic alternative, is to add tags. Each community would have a limited number of relevant tags (could be required to create a community), and users can view and follow these tags. These tags would help streamline all these different communities across Lemmy under one label, which is the result we’re trying to achieve. I would also add another tab on the home feed called “tags” where users can view and filter all the posts from the all tags they follow.