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  • 0.19.3 has been out for a while now and even the more conservative instances (like programming.dev) who like to wait and see for updates, already updated to it a while ago. I follow the progress pretty closely and 0.19.3 seems to be better than 0.19.2 in every way, no new bugs. I think wait and see is a good approach, but 0.19.3 seems like it has surpassed 0.18.5 as the most stable version.






  • I think this is a pretty big problem with how people are using Lemmy in general

    https://lemmyverse.net/communities shows 27,726 communities

    https://join-lemmy.org/instances says Lemmy has 42.2k monthly active users (as of v0.19.0 that’s including people who only vote and don’t post/comment)

    I just think that’s way too many communities to be sustainable, people jumped on Lemmy and tried to create a community to match every subreddit, and then they did it on multiple different instances too.

    I’m not sure how to improve this. You could delete communities but then you lose post history and subscribers. You could close communities and make a pinned post, but then they clutter search results and they definitely look dead, because they are. There could maybe be a new Lemmy feature added to merge a community into another one (moving the posts over and then deleting the old community) but that would have complications with subscribers on other instances.






  • You’re framing it as if this is a bad thing that Lemmy can only see some of the agupe content, but wait until you see how much content non federated platforms can see from each other! I really don’t see how some content is worse than none, if you really want all of it then make an account over there like every other social network in the past requires you to browse on their site/app. It’ll probably improve over time but it really sounds like you’re upset that it already sometimes works instead of not at all.