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Is Lemmy actually growing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Per the title, is Lemmy actually growing, or will it stagnate and fade into obscurity like many other similar discussion boards?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 days ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

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I find it kinda concerning how the number of instances is shrinking and number of users per instance is going up. IMO it should be part of the fediverse design to incentivize decentralization to avoid a gmail situation.

Also worrying is that the number of Active Users is trending constant or slightly down, but the number of posts over time is climbing dramatically. To me, this could be a sign of inauthentic behaviour on the rise.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

sh.it.heads: "We're number 5! We're number 5!"

(me. I'm probably the only one chanting at this fact)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

You're server's #3 when it comes to monthly active users too!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Hexbear? Really?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

It's very active, but also a lot older than many other instances.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This is just absolute number total posts and they're a shitposting heaven that existed for 4 years before the big reddit exodus. In monthly posts they're still in the top 10 iirc but not 2nd

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

Ahh that makes sense. I thought it was a troll instance from all the Redditors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

More the opposite, Hexbear is just a Leftist community that started from a much earlier exit from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

after the grad and .ml, hexbear is the oldest lemmy instance it pre-dates federation by over 2 years