It’s been a while since I last seen anyone posting graphs showing user base growth. Are we past the initial rush and bleeding numbers now?
Slow organic growth is far better than explosives, unsustainable growth. We continue to provide content and actual authentic conversation and they will come.
Yep, I also love the late 00s and early 10s feeling to Lemmy now. I find myself having more stuff done IRL since quitting reddit and browsing Lemmy occasionally.
I’m finding I use Lemmy more than Reddit, because the place is less hostile and the discussions are usually actually worth reading again.
And I’m finding myself actually posting comments instead of drafting and deleting them like I did on Reddit for the last 6-7 years. The comment threads really deteriorated on Reddit over the last decade
I came. And I agree. Anything that gets too popular too quickly just turns to shit. A huge influx of users who stuck around would have ended up turning this place into Reddit 2.0
I don’t want this to be Reddit 2.0
It very nearly did. I was noticing reddit like behavior during the july 1 period of lemmy. Thankfully it has subsided and the general civility of discourse has returned.
Either that or it’s because I have blocked enough people already to weed out the assholes.
That’s possible. I think kbin/lemmy were less ready to replace Reddit yet for most users this time.
There was one guy in office who posts screenshots of funny Reddit posts in slack. Guess which app was he using! Official Reddit iOS app.
The two mayor problems here are:
1- The Fediverse’s current lack of network infrastructure (on the idea that it pretends to be an alternative to both Reddit and Twitter).
2- The lack of an app that satisfies the users needs, while also having a nice layout and stability.
I do still have hope though, as Boost for Lemmy is yet to release.
Stats would indicate that we may be approaching the leveling out phase.
I don’t think we will be able to tell until we are looking back at it
Kbin stats seem very depressing, but it’s most definitely cause there’s no app yet and it relatively new compared to Lemmy
Until the next big social media fuck up, which neither Spez nor Musk can stop themselves from making.
You’re just here early, and the platform still needs work. It hasn’t even hit 1.0 yet.
Content is up but users are down. Take that as you will.
