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Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

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[–] nostradiel 24 points 2 years ago (11 children)

The problem with lemmy is that it's not 100% stable. I like it more than Reddit but at least 20% of time lemmy is overloaded, down, not refreshing or else.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I haven't had that problem at all. Maybe a month ago, but now its stable. On the other hand I suppose if might be relative to the instance you joined?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sadly, there's just not a critical mass of users in most of the communities I'm interested in. I pop in here every once in a while to see what's going on, but it's currently lacking the diversity of content that you get on Reddit. I'm still rooting for it to succeed.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

“Chart go down” isn’t necessarily bad.

For example, this could be due to general disinterest, or it could be from troll removal/defederation too, no?

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[–] art 21 points 2 years ago

These are natural growing pains of any new platform. A lot of people will come over, check it out, and then go back to Reddit.

[–] quicksand 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just swap between lemmy.world and lemm.ee whenever one of them goes down. They're the first two options on the app I use lol

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

With the fediverse known for its opposition to infinite growth, this feels ironic

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just my feelings but conversations and participation is booming. I rather a small and active community than a millions of users who lurk.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hard for me to be active when my home server is down most days 😂

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[–] VediusPollio 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm on the fence about sticking around. I don't see myself going back to Reddit, so I'll probably just leave and be productive.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

It's natural progression once initial hype wears off. As long we manage to keep core amount of users it should grow slowly over time.

[–] Badass_panda 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I keep forgetting you have to comment or post to be considered active

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

It's way better than the relative numbers of Threads. I expect a decline of active users, since a lot of Reddit users registered to a Lemmy instance expecting a similar experience that couldn't be fulfilled. It will stabilize and grow up again with peaks when, for example, old.reddit.com is ditched.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A big issue was loosing all the .ml lemmy instances. I lost mine and had to create a new account. lemmy.ml is the only one that's still up.

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[–] andrefsp 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Here! I'm another active user!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was an early Reddit adopter and can remember how lonely it felt back then. It took years but it got better in ways and worse in others. I believe in Lemmy because it isn't susceptible to the pressures of a company trying to be profitable. Sure it'll have its own challenges but I've personally had enough of idiot CEOs running social websites into the ground.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The big problem with lemmy is that some niche communities did not migrated so when you Look for example for fairphone news you Look to reddit beacuse lemmy dosent have equivalent. Likewise i havent seen something similar to r/tailsof. You know the niche communities that were the bread and bucket of reddit with the few exceptions ( programers and Linux communities fully migrated and are obviusly standing out beacuse those pepole are always first to move to opensource alternatives )

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[–] ren 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s normal. Chill. Not like Threads that lost 80% of its active users.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Lemmy has already hit equilibrium as far as I'm concerned if your on lemmy world I suggest changing instances my instance midwest.social was down alot in the beginning when lemmy was getting alot of new sign ups but has since then been updated a few times and been rock solid since now it only occasionally goes down for maintenance

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[–] HonoraryMancunian 13 points 2 years ago

Sync's already had over 10k downloads, but the ability to post (apart from comments) hasn't yet been added. Once that happens I imagine there'll be a decent spike.

[–] Thatman 13 points 2 years ago

Lemmy put my 1st post here

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