I’ve noticed this in many places in the Lemmyverse in my first few days here. When first signing up almost all the instances were listed as having 2 or less active users. The biggest was Lemmy.ml at something around 1000. Then I’ve seen those numbers listed in other places including a post yesterday that is supposed to help bring redditors to Lemmy.

These numbers will just get most people to turn around and not even consider Lemmy as an alternative.

I saw a GIF today showing the growth of user accounts on Lemmy instances and Lemmy.ml (for example) was over 30000 and many of the other servers were in the 100s, approaching 1000. That’s a HUGE difference and indicates a community that is 10 times (or more) more active than the initial numbers presented indicate.

Any thoughts? Am I out to lunch?

  • ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Aaarrh. It hurts. There are better ways of negociation (should we need that even) than defamation and boycott. I mean, give people some room to grow from experience, will you. This kind of divisive agitation is exactly unnecessary here. (And btw you are posting this kind of gratitude directly in a developer’s public forum)

    That said, it may be argued if the main devs should in fact also be admins over a lot of large communities or if they should rather concentrate on dev stuff and move the rest of the communities elsewhere, now that there are many more instances available. I have read one dev here (forgot who it was) a couple of days ago, that they do not at all aspire to be in power and that’s why they do appreciate that more users get active on other instances. How’s that for a start?