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There's two factors to this. Lemmy has been slow on developing new features. Eventually people give up despite all the promises. This sort of competition was inevitable, and two - and this cannot be changed - there's a lot of resentment and resistance to using their software for political reasons.

I don't know the details of all decisions lemmy.world instance admins have made, but it seems to me that the #1 instance will always generate the most animosity because it's far more likely than any other instance to find itself in situations where they're pressed to make decisions by their userbase.

Servers with 20% of the users and 10% of the communities, with only like a dozen 'active' communities will simply hardly ever be in that position and generate no meaningful pushback so they'll always look good by comparison. Additionally, even lemmy.world community mods can generate hostility based on decisions they made despite them having nothing to do with the instance management - and since lemmy.world dominates, you're much more likely to be posting in a lemmy.world community.

I'm not sure, but I think there /might/ be a codeberg issue for this. I know I've personally inquired about it.

Well it wouldn't shrink as such, people would just abandon their accounts - but they'd still be signed up.

At some point it could be necessary to close registrations which would be fine as there are other instances people can use and Lemmy has shown that the dev-run instance doesn't need to be the biggest.

Is this something that you project could be required to implemented on a long-term basis? I ask this because new accounts (and this goes for anywhere) can sometimes just be instantly forgotten and abandoned, meaning that you would be in effect overseeing your own userbase tanking as older accounts just get forgotten but no-one can 'replace' them (in the sense of signing up).

In my mind, some kind of automated clean-up system is ideal here but idk how that would work without accidently purging alt accounts with specific purposes.

Just had a massive post in television@piefed.social

+58 subscribers over the weekend

Yes, but they can't make use of the name on Reddit. So if you didn't like how r/movies was made, the odds are there's no intuitive name for a subreddit to take left to try and compete with them.

Not that you even can effectively compete with them because subreddit promotion on reddit is total garbage.

Seems to work. You will only see it if you login from piefed.

Piefed automatically has cross-community posting. You can see the comments here there from piefed.social if you link to same url.

I have it under "Tabletop" on Forumverse for context:

https://piefed.social/f/tabletop

Op, might I suggest cross-posting this to !television@piefed.social too. I am biased as I run that place but this topic is technically off-topic here.

Or at least until it makes migration seamless