Yes! I tried with a niche topic like fallout but can’t get people to move over from the Lemmy world community.

I’m more of a commenter and less of a poster, but I moved away from world as my primary instance last week. Part to spread the load, part to just be able to browse.

Down again it seems. People seriously need to switch away from lemmy.world. Every single time it goes down so much content goes down with it. It's annoying.

Thankfully, other instances are still up and allow us to talk about it.

Back in the days, when Reddit or Twitter were down, it was down for the whole userbase.

Probably by some ground against the Fediverse or lemmy specifically.

This single post :
https://lemmy.world/post/2874044
https://lemmy.ca/post/2904207
...has a comment from an hexbear user who thinks this is very funny. (hidden from here because we defederated them)

88% on weekly basis https://lemmy-status.org/endpoints/_lemmy-world

I also think instances just need to have more sane urls. It sounds silly but like it or not branding does matter. Instances like beehaw and sh.itjust.works just rub me the wrong way during first impressions. Even some of my friends who I've tried to introduce to Lemmy are just like..."what the fuck kinda website are you making me go to?" I am not surprised that lemmy.world is big, partly because the URL actually sounds official.

We also need super-communities that pull in content from multiple communities/instances, better multi-instance search, and a way to migrate between instances before the masses will be okay with smaller instances.

Myself and another developer are working on something we think will solve this:

OP: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726 TLDR: Automatic User Distribution

Whenever someone goes to the sign up page, for example, on Lemmy.world, we:

• look at the recommender list
• find the server that is most under capacity
• have a very large iframe with "Sign up for Lemmy (using [under capacity server here])"
• have a small "No, I want to sign up specifically on Lemmy.world" option

It makes sense that general purpose instances would have the most users. I'm not a programmer so while I could still register there why would I pick programmer.dev?

The bigger issue I had in picking an instance was just in understanding the differences. I think it would help if instances advertised their stance on defederation, moderation, etc... to help people make a decision (or even to see that lemmy.world may be more similar to some other instances than they might think).

Oof that's brutal. Didn't realize it was that bad.

There's a lot of small instances wanting to become medium/big instances and share the load, but people need to show a bit of initiative and join them. I just made this account, and here's a list of a few other small servers with room to spare. YMMV but these all look pretty solid at a glance.

discuss.online lemmy.fmhy.net lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz lemmy.tf thelemmy.club lemmy.myserv.one

I moved to a different instance about a month ago, after lemmy.world got hacked. I haven't had any issues on Midwest.social. I suggest other people do the same if they want Lemmy to be feasible in the long term. Get the fuck off Lemmy.world.

Here is a list of instances sorted by user count if anyone wants to move: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Attitudes like this are much worse for the health of the Fediverse, IMO.

A popular instance with users and content? Kill it immediately, we can't risk people actually using the Fediverse.

Instead of blocking sign-ups we can have Lemmy's sign up automatically recommend other servers.

Another developer and I already have a PR in development for it.

Here's the idea in more detail: https://lemm.ee/post/2800726

Already running Cloudflare.

You can always have multiple accounts

Unfortunately, I don't think there is anything on mobile yet. The best tool for this is LASIM on desktop.