Just say 40,000. Which is a pathetic number, but perfectly fine for the type of niche communities budding up here and there across all the domains connected together here.
There are huge subreddits that are basically dead or just filled with spam. The ratio of active/passive users on Lemmy must be much much larger. A Lemmy community with 100 active members almost feels like a subreddit with 10 000 members.
40000 is enough to be a functioning social media. most fediverse softwares don’t have that much. Sure, it is not enough to have discussions over non mainstream stuff, but there are still enough people for a variety of topics.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
Just say 40,000. Which is a pathetic number, but perfectly fine for the type of niche communities budding up here and there across all the domains connected together here.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
40k users is huge. Remember, lemmy is not profit driven. We don’t need to grow at all costs, we can grow naturally and sustainably.
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
…I kinda like it right now. Some communities of less than a 1000 have much more human resources. It nice.
sith@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
There are huge subreddits that are basically dead or just filled with spam. The ratio of active/passive users on Lemmy must be much much larger. A Lemmy community with 100 active members almost feels like a subreddit with 10 000 members.
deedan06_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
40000 is enough to be a functioning social media. most fediverse softwares don’t have that much. Sure, it is not enough to have discussions over non mainstream stuff, but there are still enough people for a variety of topics.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
We’re actually at about 43k
kat@orbi.camp 2 weeks ago
43.001k! I just joined with my own instance in my over engineer lab 🧪
can@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I would have, but they asked in millions and I was being cheeky.
I don’t find it pathetic, I’m quite happy with it. Sure, I’d be happy to get more but in no rush.