Corgana@startrek.website to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 11 months ago"This is a tremendous achievement" - Lemmy is sitting at ~36K active daily users across all instancesjoin-lemmy.orgexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1242arrow-down13cross-posted to: home@lemmy.ziplemmy@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1239arrow-down1external-link"This is a tremendous achievement" - Lemmy is sitting at ~36K active daily users across all instancesjoin-lemmy.orgCorgana@startrek.website to Quark's@startrek.websiteEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square28fedilinkcross-posted to: home@lemmy.ziplemmy@lemmy.ml
minus-squaresmoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down2·11 months agoIt’s like the entire site is the size of a small subreddit.
minus-squareCorgana@startrek.websiteOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·11 months ago36k is referring to daily active users, not total accounts, so the whole network is more comperable to a single medium-large subreddit.
minus-squaresmoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·11 months agoI’m happy with that, honestly. I have quality conversations with quality users because it hasn’t been diluted.
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoWhich is weirdly ideal, if what you want is a sense of actual community. Once you get to metropolitan numbers, you get the same paradoxical disconnectedness that you find in a densely-populated city.
It’s like the entire site is the size of a small subreddit.
36k is referring to daily active users, not total accounts, so the whole network is more comperable to a single medium-large subreddit.
I’m happy with that, honestly.
I have quality conversations with quality users because it hasn’t been diluted.
Which is weirdly ideal, if what you want is a sense of actual community.
Once you get to metropolitan numbers, you get the same paradoxical disconnectedness that you find in a densely-populated city.