255

Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

147 comments fedilink hide all child comments

How is the size of Lemmy's userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?

I feel like I used to see graphs on this sub fairly regularly, but haven't seen one recently. There was also some ambiguity in the numbers as commenting and voting were added to the active user totals. Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19, do we have a better idea of where things stand?

Aside from sticking around and posting, commenting, and voting, is there anything users should be doing to help grow the platform? (!lemmygrow would be a good name for a sublemmy, if anyone wanted to organize something)

In any case, thanks to everyone who has helped grow Lemmy to its current size!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[+] DaveFuckinMorgan@lemmy.world -12 points 7 months ago

Shrinking because it's full of, and ran by commie dumbasses. Nobody likes you guys.

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 7 months ago

Every instance is run by distinct admins. You can't say that Lemmy as a whole is run by any specific group.

[-] h3ndrik@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Idk. The software most people here use is made by a small group of specific people. It affects us all as this defines the interaction and moderation tools that are available. And dictates what admins and mods can and cannot do.

Also the large instances have a dysproportionate amount of say. For example the largest communities are on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world. They run most of Lemmy.

Technically it's all distributed over several different people. But they're not equal in opportunity or reach.

[-] Blaze@dormi.zone 6 points 7 months ago

We juste moved our community to !casualconversation@lemm.ee hopefully others will do the same

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It would definitely be better if users spread more evenly over the instances, yes.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

There is a thing where some Americans when exposed to other ways of doing things in the world insisit everyone's a commie. It's interesting to me that McCarthyism persists and that commie is used as some sort of pejorative but can't compete with the wide world on some things and resort to big daddy government protectionism eg TikTok, steel imports, ecars etc

[-] Urist@lemmy.ml -4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, we are really, really bad. You should leave before you start transmuting yourself into a tank and begin involuntarily rolling over capitalists.