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Is lemmy growth coming to a halt? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Lemmy world was growing at a decent pace leading up to July 1st, then had a big influx following the API deadline. However the last week in particular has seen a decline.

Engagement still appears to be the same, although a little lower than the start of the month. A few of the other instances i have been checking follow a similar pattern.

Do you think we will continue growing at a steady pace, or do we need another big trigger to get users to migrate? For Mastodon, it seems there's a big trigger every other week to drive users away from Twitter, but with Reddit, the revolt seems to have quietened down considerably.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Understood. That's why I said:

I wouldn’t want Lemmy to grow too much

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I get your point but from a larger perspective, Lemmy (amongst several others) is just a means to an end:

Free the internet of corporate control.

A steep goal but a worthy one if you ask me.

So I say make it grow as big as possible even if that means it is not as intimate as it is right now.

In a large federated place, there will be infinite amounts of smaller/niche hosts to migrate to.

The idea imo is that we need to focus on our goal here: stop the infinite brainwashing happening through mobile devices.

Feel free to disagree. Its just how I see it. Have a good one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't disagree. You have a point. If I don't like a community, I can just move elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly. What I feel we might be suffering from is the status quo. We‘re so used to being in walled gardens that we assume homogeneity. But this will not be the case if there are thousands of instances. You then might have an instance that is manga themed or retro themed and so on with themed versions of the other places etc. sounds like fun to me.

But the bottom line is that we need critical mass for this since that ensures visibility.