The fanbase is still large, but the Lemmy community hasn’t quite caught up yet, and now there is a transitional period where the audience is smaller.
…the other 50 who showed up had to stand in the hall or not get in at all. They said the venue sucks and left.
A lot of people ran into signup and login issues over the last few weeks and just bailed.
“The system overwhelmed by this influx of new users is experiencing problems that make it take more than three seconds to get something done. Bye.”