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Is lemmy growth coming to a halt? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Elcapitan786@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Lemmy world was growing at a decent pace leading up to July 1st, then had a big influx following the API deadline. However the last week in particular has seen a decline.

Engagement still appears to be the same, although a little lower than the start of the month. A few of the other instances i have been checking follow a similar pattern.

Do you think we will continue growing at a steady pace, or do we need another big trigger to get users to migrate? For Mastodon, it seems there's a big trigger every other week to drive users away from Twitter, but with Reddit, the revolt seems to have quietened down considerably.

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[-] nicolairathjen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

One thing Lemmy is missing is a way to join that doesn't require you to understand the fediverse - currently the barrier of entry is quite high. Also, there aren't any great user interfaces yet, which makes the platform difficult to use.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. A good app is Thunder but still lacks key functionality like ~~editing comments~~ or proper Markdown rendering.

Also, if I see a link to another Lemmy instance’s post, I have no idea how to log in with an account on another Lemmy instance or another Fediverse service. Integrating OAuth-like Sign in with... functionality into ActivityPub would help a lot, especially if you get automatically logged into all instances whitelisted by your instance’s admins. However, that would require either a centralized server (which erodes Fediverse principles), cross-site cookies (which likely don’t exist for obvious tracking reasons) or a browser extension (which is browser-specific and an entry barrier for users, and could introduce security vulnerabilities).

[-] Cubes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure if you've used it for a bit, but Thunder allows you to edit comments now

Edit: edited from Thunder

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Oh! I did not realize that the swipe action changes contextually because it has the same color. Thanks!

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago

Liftoff works better in those situations, you always have the option to "see this from that instance", it's very good

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That‘s been my main issue with Liftoff: This content was retreived via lemmy.world. You are not logged in there. Now I found the option. Thanks!
Now I just need a way to remove lemmy.world from the app (edit: you can by long-pressing it in the Accounts menu) and rid my All feed of duplicates fetched via different instances; then it will be the perfect app.