Now it's a matter of sustaining and slow growth. Hopefully. Best thing you can do to see Lemmy succeed is participate: comment, post, doomscroll All+Top Hou ;)
It'll take a while for some of the smaller communities to get critical mass. And that's okay, probably. Critical mass is here for the larger topics already. I'll do my best to help :)
Yeah I think this is to be expected, I agree we'll probably see slower consistent growth from here
I mentioned elsewhere but we are just over a month out from the Reddit blackout so a dropoff from those who only stayed for that is to be expected and would be showing up in a users/month graph right about now. The Canada community hit a high of 1.15k/m, dipped as low as 1.12, and has now recovered back to 1.15. I've seen a similar thing play out in the smaller communities I pay attention to on a smaller scale.
All this to say I'm not convinced our growth is slowing as much as all that rather we're seeing the results of a statistical anomaly that took place a month ago.