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.
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.
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Usually I notice the admins are right onto it and actually take reports seriously. It’s so refreshing.
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
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No, no it’s not.
Who cares. Just use it and enjoy.
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
I wonder why the number of comments went up so drastically last Friday.
I noticed the same thing on Mastodon. The new users per day ratio is slowing, but each time Elon does his thing there’s a new wave.
For now… until reddit’s admins find themselves some more feet to shoot themselves in. In the interim there’s always going to be a steady flow of those who have been permabanned for obscure and arbitrary reasons
