Yeah this is incredible actually. This technology could become very popular with just a few simple changes to signup flows and user interfaces, and I see what’s needed, but on the other hand, I actually don’t want too many people to join us.

It’s good with a bit of a barrier right now so we don’t have to deal with moderation issues caused by people who just want to cause conflicts.

Very much so. It shares the load, both from a technical point of view but also from moderation and maintenance point of view.

It’s actually pretty great, all of this.

You can actually follow hashtags on mastadon, which is a lot easier then knowing users. :)

I think it would actually be a better user default to be included in the most popular communities so they see a lot of posts. Otherwise if you subscribe to a instance with not many of their own communities, you will think there is nothing going on.

I was thinking to write a guide for this. Users need to go to search, pick All instances and then search on something. But that’s not easy to know on day one.

I have more posts than I know what to do with. I have subscribed to a lot of communities from a lot of different instances so it’s a lot of activity.

I recommend everyone to do this and then later turn off some if it becomes too much. But being able to see most of the posts and contribute there will help Lemmy take off. :)

Very good. People have had enough.

Ah yes, you got a point there.

I saw some checkbox for enabling NSFW content when signing up for Lemmy and in the profile. Maybe you have it enabled?

I think it’s just frigging amazing to see this.

I just created an account on a new Lemmy instance to try out the experience, and I’m actually excited, watching all these people communicate across all the Lemmy instances. It’s just like email, if email servers were self hosted by individuals.