The migration of large communities from Reddit to Lemmy is like a world-renowned band performing an acoustic set in a library for 50 people.

Only thing that bothers me is that most of the biggest communities are @ lemmy.world or lemmy.ml, so it still feels kind of centralized.

Obviously it's not, but I wonder if too much "power" in one instance will have some negative consequences in future. For example one of them going black results in losing half of lemmy content and orphaned users probably won't spread to smaller instances but will join next biggest.

I'm kind of enjoying the smaller community size. Unlike reddit where I'd come across a post that I have something interesting to say about and see there are already 27,481 comments.

The loudest band so far seems to be the "memes" band.

Or like if an A-list Hollywood actress suddenly started marketing her new summer blockbuster on a small forum of mostly tech workers.

Sure makes you think.

That is good since we are all beta testing the site and developing tools to manage everything before the real migration occurs.

Enjoy the intimate atmosphere while it last. The hordes will find us eventually.

IDK but if, say, Motörhead came to a 50 seat library in some small town it would be kinda cute and would make the library famous, and it would make all other libraries envy them in a good way.

Edit: just learned that Lemmy died 8 years ago. Just imagine I said Imagine Dragons or something...

I once saw Yo-Yo Ma perform at a Borders book store in Boston.

This could be a concern but i think it will even out in the end. Many people will naturally gravitate to am instance that suites them. I created unilem.org as an instance aimed at not defederating. Some will like that and join others will not and find a different place that suits them. Its the beauty of the fediverse. You can choose your home or even host your own.

Small communities and slow content feeds are fine for me I think. Either way I'm glad I'm here to witness this liminal period.

hey its like our own little MTV Unplugged session :D

allow me to introduce you to https://lemmy.world/c/tonightsdinner it's pretty much that except playing in the empty back room of the library - cooks come and post please

I'm just over here waiting on more Braves fans to show up from /r/Braves. That's where I was the most active.

When Bush were at the height of their success, I saw them in a little 300 person room. It was brilliant and we should appreciate Lemmy while it is in that state.

And the old memes trend is that time the band did a bunch of coffee shop shows playing nothing but ukuleles.

They're just doing their part for decentralized social media.

If their fans love them enough, they'll make an account.

This is a concern, but luckily this isn't required. I set up hobbit.world to host my Tolkien related communities. It only costs $6 a month plus the $35/yr for the domain name to host a tiny instance like this. I don't need to depend on anyone but my hosting provider.

To be safe I should download backups once a month or so.

But the point is that for big communities that people put a lot of time into, there should be an instance for each one owned by one of the mods.

Edit: Meant to reply to the person concerned about the centralization of communities.

The community here is already 100x better then anyone I've communicated with on Reddit

c/showerthoughts

…the other 50 who showed up had to stand in the hall or not get in at all. They said the venue sucks and left.

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I find absolutely nothing on Z-library and other important areas - I bet TOR, LMDE, Mint, Debian are absent.