Is lemmy growth coming to a halt?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Elcapitan786@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

Lemmy world was growing at a decent pace leading up to July 1st, then had a big influx following the API deadline. However the last week in particular has seen a decline.

Engagement still appears to be the same, although a little lower than the start of the month. A few of the other instances i have been checking follow a similar pattern.

Do you think we will continue growing at a steady pace, or do we need another big trigger to get users to migrate? For Mastodon, it seems there’s a big trigger every other week to drive users away from Twitter, but with Reddit, the revolt seems to have quietened down considerably.

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xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Honestly, I want half of the people on reddit… to just STAY on reddit.

There is a lot of toxicity that I don’t want here…

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- ikka@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  There is a lot of toxicity that I don’t want here…
  
  It already is…
  
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  - VediusPollio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It absolutely is… And I’m starting to burn out of this place more everyday.
    
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  - xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It could be far worse. But, its not that bad yet.
    
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yoyolll@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It does feel a little dead here. Right now it’s mostly memes, meta discussions, or Reddit hate. And the crowd is a very specific type of hyper aware internet dweller (myself included).

Reddit isn’t worth using without third party apps, and it’s the only social media I used before Lemmy, so I’m spending a lot more time off my phone nowadays. I only check the daily top on Lemmy once a day instead of compulsively every time I touch my phone. Guess that’s a good thing.

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- elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s a very good thing.
  
  And to be honest, as selfish as this will sound, I wouldn’t want Lemmy to grow too much - unless the eternal september crowd can be contained.
  
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Emanuel@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think it’s as you say. Lemmy’s growth is going to happen in waves, until it has reached a critical mass that sustains its own “weight”, in terms of growth.

You have to remember that this is no commercial platform, with little advertisement, which is made by its own users. Growth is bound to be slow, at first.

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Boiglenoight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Don’t know don’t care. There’s a community here now and it’s healthy.

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Roggie@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Don’t care, there’s enough content to keep me happy and I plan to stay here until there’s not

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Wooly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Anyone who would’ve left Reddit has already done so, they may be a small increase when Boost/sync becomes available but I doubt we’ll see much growth. No one has ever heard of Lemmy.

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xyzinferno@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wouldn’t call it a matter of need. While I want to see Lemmy grow, I don’t think that we should rely on outrage on another platform to drive our own activity in the long term. While the number of users joining has slowed down, it certainly hasn’t halted.

All we can do is make Lemmy as solid and enticing of a platform as possible, and leave those on Reddit to choose between supporting a platform they don’t like and leaving. We shouldn’t be responsible for forcing their hand, but we should be responsible for maintaining a healthy community here.

I think even something like a indie video game developer hosting a forum on Lemmy instead of Reddit would do wonders for making Lemmy “mainstream”. Or even a youtuber, streamer, or some other content creator at that. But of course, it’s not something I’d go out of my way to do; just something that I think will happen in due time.

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GroggyKon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It will always be like that. If 100 people come here for the first time on one day its great if 10 end up staying till the end of the week and lurking and out of those 10 maybe 1 would end up staying for longer. Thats just how these things work.

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- ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Fortunately, this effect is stronger with Facebook’s Threads even though they likely paid celebrities to join. I think the anti-Zuck sentiment is going strong and Lemmy does not have major controversies around it. Also, if users pass the somewhat high barrier to join, they might be more likely to want to use the account once it’s been set up.
  
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Squander@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I think there are 2 groups coming from reddit. 1- Users wanting a more niche community (think early reddit) 2- Users trying to turn Lemmy into present day Reddit. Theres a good amount of communities that are carbon copies of reddit subs. Personally I think the reddit has morphed into something toxic (Ive had a reddit account for 15 years). While its good have growth, nobody wants to use a site that is so popular that Aunt Betty is chiming in with her love jesus memes.

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kowcop@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
People will go where the content is… all it will take is one massive event where Lemmy is the source

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samokosik@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I believe it will continue but at a slower pace

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Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m not naturally a poster I got tired of posting. I keep thinking of stuff to post while I’m at work then forget when I get home.

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eldavi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
anecdotally; the lack of content and relatively steep learning fediverse learning curve compared to reddit both make it easy enough to understand why lemmy & the fediverse haven’t reaching into the millions of users yet.

i’m a reddit refugee and i’ve handcuffed my ability to participate in reddit because i’m still angry about the api changes. i also work in technical, but i still struggle to understand all of lemmy’s (and the fediverse’s) quirks. both result me me still spending more time on reddit as an unregistered lurker than with lemmy as a member who can participate.

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Hazdaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Seeing as how the servers keep on doing down or there are other similar problems, I’m not sure Lemmy could handle the traffic even if it did stay. And there are far too many subs with next to zero traffic which only makes the whole site look kind of sad. You are better off having 1/2 as many subs with 2x the engagement that they currently have.

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Blaze@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I see two big events in the coming weeks

release of Sync and Boost for Lemmy

Reddit actually killing 3rd party access and old.reddit
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