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Cake day: July 18th, 2024
  • FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyzOPtoNew Communities@lemmy.world•MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: WG is shutting down as a public instance March 1st 2025.English
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    10 months ago

    Early on we were experimenting with trying to offer everything on the fediverse from a Lemmy instance. A lot of changes and tweaks were made to try to make that work before it was abandoned. There’s a lot of leftover bloat from that project that we’ve been trying to deal with without too much impact to the Lemmy instance but for the size of the instance it makes more sense to start over than to spend even more time trying to undo the wrongs of the past. There isn’t a specific cautionary tale here besides “don’t go public with things that you hope to fix later.”

    More recently we’ve had issues with our registrar or DNS pop up that no one seems to have answers for yet, so sometimes the domain itself isn’t reachable. One problem or the other might not be a huge deal in the short term but together they make for a miserable time trying to sort things out. Moving the traffic to a known good config will help me maintain sanity while dealing with the issues at WG.

  • FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•About community 2 (and lemmy)
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    11 months ago

    I can’t say for certain but the fediverse is prone to behave unpredictability at times. You’re probably better off thinking about Lemmy as a collection of websites rather than one central hub like reddit or more traditional sites.

    Instances go up and down all the time as well. Sometimes when a site goes down for maintenance (and probably other things like sync issues) the subscriber numbers will fluctuate because a bunch of them are on a site that “doesn’t exist” for a short time while it’s being worked on.

    Everything you do on Lemmy takes longer than what you’re probably used to on a more traditional website too. Your posts to your local instance should be instantaneous but sometimes it can take minutes, hours, or even days for those actions to fully federate to other places. This is true of posts, replies, votes, and subscriptions.

    There is also defederation which can cause the behavior you described. You are on one of the largest instances on Lemmy and some people have soured on it and its users. It’s entirely possible some of your subscribers were on an instance that defedderated with lemmy.world or something.

    TLDR: You are likely overthinking the impact of bots and putting too much importance on subscription numbers. Make sure the community you care about can actually reach the people who might be interested and hope for the best.

    Only slightly related but maybe you’d be interested -

    I put together a help post for new Lemmy users on my instance describing how to find and join new places on Lemmy. Maybe these resources will help you understand more about how Lemmy works and how you can get your community off the ground.

    https://walledgarden.xyz/post/1600683

  • FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•About community 2 (and lemmy)
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    11 months ago

    Bots are not nearly as widespread on Lemmy as they are on reddit. You’re letting your frustration with a slow growing community turn into “old man yells at cloud.”

    The main use of bots is for federating. They join communities but don’t interact with posts at all. Even that requires an instance admin to set up so it’s not like there are thousands of them or something. Bedsides that the rest of them are mostly news and information shares.

    Lemmy is much smaller than reddit and has more barriers to entry and community growth. Expect it to take months to get a community off the ground.

  • FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyztoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you feel about the level of censorship in your current instance ?
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    1 year ago

    Can you point us to some disagreements the people in your instance have had with moderators? Do you have any specific links for us to view? If censorship is happening I’d like to know more about it.

    No because there aren’t any. There are very few active users on WG and I have no desire for it to ever become very big. I originally created it for myself to experiment with and I don’t really promote or advertise the instance itself even though people are welcome to join.

    The people who have joined tend to share common interests so things have mostly remained the same as when it was just me. The “walled” part of WG is more or less the application process itself, since it removes easy access for troll and bot accounts.

    I’m an instance owner (it’s very small) and the only thing I don’t tolerate is hate messages and subversive spam (“www,BuyGoldHere123,Spam,me”). I haven’t yet needed to delete anything my users created.

    I’ve seen some of these spam posts in our communities before but always from outside instances. They are very easy to keep under control and I wouldn’t consider that censorship, just garbage removal.