According to https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Lemmy has ~67,500 daily active users over the past two weeks (it did peak at around 72,000)
How do you feel about the activity in your communities?
Do you think it will take another ‘event’ on some other website for more growth, or do you think Lemmy can grow naturally from here?
Or are you fine with the current activity and don’t necessarily see the need for more users at this time?
Lemmy has cleared some early hurdles to grow from near-zero to 60k DAUs in a month. I’ve enjoyed talking to people over the past month in a more friendly and intimate way than on that other site. The main communities are fun and viable but the niche ones are mostly empty. I run a niche hobby community and despite having a few hundred subscribers <5% have ever commented, <0.5% have posted. I think Lemmy needs to be perhaps 10x larger than it is now to be self-sustaining for niche communities.
according to that same website, kbin activity has been dropping
down from ~57,000 average at the beginning of July to about ~32,500 active users now
https://kbin.fediverse.observer/dailystats
I know I’ve been having issues with federation from kbin magazines to my lemmy instance, so I wonder if this is part of it?
I think it’s just okay. I very much wish there were at least 10x as many daily active users.
I think natural growth will be either very slow, or negative, for the time being. But I also think future “events” will probably end up being more effective - because with each new influx of users Lemmy will be more mature as a platform, and have a larger pre-existing userbase to fill it with content that isn’t just about Lemmy or reddit - which was so bad when I joined that I nearly quit.
I’d like my special interest communities to be a bit more active…
If any of you like wresting please come post on !squaredcircle@kbin.social
If any of you read fantasy books please come post on !fantasy@lemmy.ml or !fantasy@kbin.social
I quite like it not being as busy. Everything feels a bit calmer.
anytime I saw a thread on reddit with 1,000+ comments I didn’t even bother to add my own view
I do like how pretty much any thread here on the fediverse is small enough that I feel like I can make a comment and participate
Yes but I would like to have friends here