This post should NOT be taken as some kind of insult towards the mods of the previous subreddit, nor should it be seen as some justification for the dumb crap that Reddit is trying to pull with their API. I am totally against Reddit trying to price gouge people who make their site better.
However, I made a post on the thread that announced the indefinite lockdown that people would not switch sites and ultimately it would harm the community because 75-80% of people wouldn’t switch, and it seems my number was really wrong. It is more like 95%+. I guess I am making this thread to ask if it is worth fracturing the main place for the PoE community to gather (for better or worse)? I think it is worth a legitimate discussion, because I hate the idea that the PoE community is the one getting harmed because of Reddit’s poor decision making. Maybe Reddit will change their tune and this won’t matter, but if they’re not are we just going to stay away from there forever? Unless this site (which is out of control of the mods here) gets massive upgrades then I just don’t ever see it being used at all.
Feel free to give your thoughts and I hope that my post comes across as genuine.
Some reddit apps don’t show the message on the poe subreddit that links to this site (for example RIF, it just shows an empty page).
A lot of people are not that invested in poe or reddit that they would bother with moving to another platform, instead they’ll just stop interacting with the community and move on to something else. Getting people to move to another platform is always a big ask.
I’m still kinda surprised by how quiet this place has been. I think this site works just fine.
I think there is a very high proportion of lurkers on this instance. Do you want to guess how many users are registered here right now? 3500. And yet, only <30 posts or so. 1% commenters/posters to lurkers ratio might be about right.
Interesting. Maybe people are shy to post when there are so few posts on the front page? or maybe they are all bots haha
I was curious if most are bots too and found some interesting data
Looking at the list of users by domain
ubuntu$ users | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr 1563 lemmy.world 1320 beehaw.org 172 sh.itjust.works 164 pathofexile-discuss.com 149 lemmy.ml 103 discuss.tchncs.de 20 lemmy.nz < censored results below 20 to protect privacy on small instances > `` It seems most people have main accounts elsewhere. Not sure why someone would try making bot accounts elsewhere to then link them here and...not post? 🤷♂️Also keep in mind that some instances such as Kbin have Cloudflare protection in place at the moment which breaks federation.
For what it’s worth, I made an account last week and wasn’t able to log in until now due to an infinite loading spinner, so there may be some bugs where people actually just can’t post even if they wanted to.
Yeah there was something wrong with the emailer last week, sorry about that!