Lemmy is booming

I have never before received so many reactions and comments on my Lemmy posts before, so it’s obvious to see, that there are many new members here.
Welcome to all the new! And I’m looking forward to see more of you here.
Cheers!

  • Cosmiiko@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    For what it’s worth, having a few “bigger” instances means less confusion for users who don’t completely understand federation yet but still want to make the switch. I wouldn’t call it a bad thing, they can always turn to another smaller instance later on.

    • tmpodAEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Sure, that is a valid concern, but maybe that could also be mitigated by making it pretty clear that you can interact with content on other servers just fine, even if you’re not from there. Perhaps a little note banner on the “Join Lemmy” page itself.

      Regarding moving to another instance, that is not quite possible right now. There’s no way to properly move an account to another server, you’d just have to start from scratch with a new identity. In the future, it would be nice to have proper account migration, or at the very least a way to import/export account data.

      • Cosmiiko@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        You’re right, a few additions / changes to the Join Lemmy page would indeed go a long way.
        Regarding account migration, I’m fairly certain it’ll be implemented in the future if the project lives on long enough.