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!
I doubt it’s the performance and more the lack of content. Even copy-pastas would be good at this time.
The content here feels much better than other alternatives. Squabbles is stale by the end of the day (smaller userbase) and discuit is painfully quiet. It’s not perfect, but the content here actually helps me to tolerate the server growing pains
14k users per week, 22k users per month, makes it look like a bunch of people tried it and then didn’t come back.
I’m not sure how accurate that part of the stat page is, given we have very little usage data compiled into a short sample size, during a time of high growth.
Most people don’t know that the lemmy.world instance was only started on June 1 or June 2 this year, and is only a little more than a month old. A month of crazy growth to become the most popular Lemmy instance that fast, with more growth likely to come.
8k user instance owner requires 200$ per month to cover server cost. that should 2000$ per month for lemmy.world…and counting
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 oe gifs.
It does not. It in large part scales with the amount of content the local and federated communities. So because many users will subscribe to many of the same communities, more users will add less extra cost aftter a point. This is a bit simplified though as it also scales with users but to a lesser degree from my understanding.
Disclaimer: I’m not hosting myself just to be clear but this is what I have gathered from answers to similar questions as well as my own experience as a software dev.
So it is theoretically possible to keep the boat afloat with less than one dollar per user.
Where can I find a lemmy community 'list like Reddit have please?
Have a look at !newcommunities@lemmy.world . Sort by top if needed and especially this post
Edit: and I also learned about !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca
I used to sub to new subreddit via such subreddits, or in comments of posts that showed me through a discussion. Or sidebar of subreddit on related ones.
The API hasn’t shut down yet. I don’t know wtf they are doing at reddit hq but many of the apps, and nsfw posts, still work completely normally with no changes.
I thought they weren’t going to shut down the API, they were going to start charging for it. So 3rd party apps that are still going will start getting bills?
