DrSanta

Not very.

It mostly just displays the frontpage and the threads there. Can log in but can't really interact beyond voting.

It currently crashes upon going into a... "Sublemmy?" I don't know what we're calling it here.

Work in progress. Still looks like home.

Unfortunately, the reality is that it may become necessary.

Donations can be a saving grace if enough people donate regularly. But such is dependent on people's willingness, their own financial stability, and how stressed servers are (how much it'll cost to upgrade and/or maintain infrastructure.)

It's great if it's viable. Means there's less outside influence. But that's if.

As far as I'm aware, Wikipedia has been able to maintain it purely off donations. But I'm not sure if Lemmy could.

Maybe? One thing Lemmy does have going for it is that the majority of users seem to be aware how... Fragile? the fediverses can be. There's arguably more passion behind the users and maybe willing to throw support out.

But hard to say.

6k now.

Tell me about this "Digg." It sounds so familiar, but I don't think I actually ever used anything called Digg.

Chili does sound like it'd be better with rice though.

I think Lemmy's biggest challenges are server stability, increased complexity to use (most don't understand things like instances), and low awareness from others. I only learned about it a day or two ago. Signed up out of curiosity.

But if Lemmy gets even more popular then the various popular instances are going to be stressed. It looks unstable to newcomers who go back to Reddit.

I signed up for lemmy.world originally, constantly had Gateway errors. Lemm.ee seems more stable due to lower traffic.

But others may not be able to recognize that. Even if they did, might not want to create new accounts for several instances and go back to starting from 0.

I got two. [email protected] and [email protected]

In theory, that'd offload population and increase stability.

But there's always going to be big instances that are just naturally more populated.

Account creation is tedious so people may not be willing to make a new account. If there was an easy way to swap instances without account creation, that might reduce issues.

Thankfully, they'll remind you wh- oh wait.

A number of us picked lemm.ee because we heard it was more stable. And it's true. None of that constant gateway errors.

Thing is? More who join lemm.ee the more resource we use and the more unstable it could become.

I doubt he cares about that.

Always some going off in early July and late June.