I think we mostly need to communicate the state of things well and frequently to keep users aware this is super alpha preview software and that the the technology is sound but just needs time to mature properly. It's the cost of freedom: patience. As long as the fixes and improvements keeps coming, buggy shouldn't be that much of a problem.

[–] demeaning_casually@infosec.pub 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It makes the fediverse look about as bad as Lemmy did when the Reddit apicalypse happened.

At least it mostly worked!

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

yea but it definitely pushed a lot of people away, if we had Lemmy v0.19.8 back then we would've retained way more users

just not the luckiest timing maybe, could've been a lot worse though (like before Lemmy even supported federation)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Indeed, but "unfortunately" corporate social media keep messing things up, so people have more opportunities to come back check how things are

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 14 hours ago

ikr Lemmy had and still has some weirdnesses but frankly so do the corporate platforms.