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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown (self.fediverse)

submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave to c/fediverse

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Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post.

Definitely felt some growing pains in the past few days, but it's great to see the platform more active now that things have become more stable.

So, welcome reddit expats!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

just a wild a guess. will it should be more dependant on bandwidth and traffic than users. posters on c/cats are more demanding than posters of c/news in terms of ressources and bandwidth. text is lightweight compared to image or gifs.

[–] Coelacanth 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For sure. Larger userbase also increases likelihood of more and bigger donors, however, so the critical question is whether that revenue increases at a higher or lower rate than server costs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

users just need to be ressource conscious: no wasted bandwidth with 4k pics and we should all fare well. sharing 70kb memes here and there shouldn't hurt thou. but good practice is to use a dedicated media hosting site and use links instead of posting media directly (like imgur or giphy). peertube could help in hosting videos in case people felt like sharing some.