We had a good run, thank you everyone

Natural, healthy, positive growth! Not growth for growths sake

Yeah, my main problem so far has been finding communities actually worth following/joining/contributing to.

If suddenly tons of average people join, they won't really find communities, they'll deem that their analysis of Lemmy, and leave with tiny chances of a second chance. It'll just boom and bust in it's current state. Most people aren't interested in starting or growing a small community.

Meanwhile, if we stay at this size for a while, communities may form/grow, and as people trickle in, they'll grow bit by bit.

Yea and a lot of that may be bot accounts that are getting banned/being shut off.

Yes. I do not want another Reddit.

I, for one, am not going anywhere. ✊🏻

I’m interested in seeing how well these great open source apps for Lemmy scale as the user base and post/comment data grows.

As long as we have the population to stabilize the big communities and slowly fill out the niche ones as reddit drives ever downward. I think we will be ok.

I hope that the lemmy devs take this time to look at how they're distributing users. We need a better browser for people to find what instances to join. The next Reddit exodus is going to be massive and .ml and .world aren't ready for it.

The brain-drain has already happened on reddit and it's only a matter of time before the good content and 3rd party development explodes here on Lemmy.

Nice July comment. Here’s my July comment.

Ohai

me too

Another July comment

I see what you did there

Christmas in July, happy Christmas.

Hi

Me too, thanks.

Same

Roger, dude.

Same here

same, may as well make my first comment here

July?

Is that how it works? I can't remember if I've commented lately.

This is a highly regarded comment.

💎🙌

I’m a woman and child

You are not allowed to be busy, you need to shit post nonstop.

Yall got fish? All I got was beans.

🐬 SO SAD THAT IT HAS COME TO THIS 🐬

You should join as many terrorist organisations as you can

Please join both political parties.

Why does this always happen to me too? Is this some sort of psychological phenomenon?

Here I was thinking we didn’t need awards and the like, but minds change

lol

Less people = less assholes

"We had a 2% reduction in profits this year guys, 😭"

"The company lost money?"

"What? Oh no! But we made 3 bn in profits last year and we only made 2.8bn this year... So to make up for the shortfall, we'll be reducing 401k contributions."

"...didn't the CEO get a 200million bonus-"

"WE ALL NEED TO MAKE SACRIFICES!"

Every capitalist: You did great, and we know all the prior meetings talked about record profits, but we just can't afford to give you a bonus. Soooorryyyyyyyyy.

how will i financially recover

There was a post the other day about other lemmy servers that had thousands of inactive users. The OP contacted the admins of those servers to let them know and several admins did purge a load of accounts.

People were pushing for everyone to comment at least once a day so all the lurkers were counted as active users. It's a little bit of The Pot Roast Principle at this point.

Edit Ok, so don't just pick the first link off Google folks. That got weird fast. Have this Less insane version instead.

This is a pretty standard curve for a recently discovered thing. Everyone is curious what it is, tries it out then a percentage decides it isn’t for them and goes elsewhere.

I had to be pretty stubborn to get into Lemmy, never received the verification email (likely due to sudden server load) and no way to retrigger it, so had to wait until the new version came out. Apparently that removed the login block. Not to mention the filter on my account defaulting to showing no posts (needed to set language filter to include undetermined and my language), so it was kind of a rough entry.

But this number isn’t total accounts, it’s active accounts. So that means people who have logged in at least once during the last month. The accounts still exist from when people came to check it out, but if they decided it wasn’t for them or ran into issues like I did and didn’t return then they’d fall off the active user list.

New products face this curve all the time. Steady growth, discovery spike then retained user drop back to steady, hopefully accelerated, growth with a higher baseline than before.

Oh great, you're here.

Bruhhh I thought you were someone else. Welcome aboard

Reddit keeps implementing more ideas to piss off the communities. The growth will come

Fuck spez.

Go back to reddit

Meh, storage is cheap, you can get TBs of storage for less than $100. If things really pick up and you're a smaller Lemmy instance, I bet there'll be some good ways to filter exactly what you store on the server.

What's the point of self hosting?

I have not used it in almost a week and was thinking about giving up and down loaded jerboa.

If this is like Mastodon, then I think the server will flush items cached from other instances when they reach 6 months old

threads??/? 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

It'll take some time but before you know it, it'll explode and then you'll fondly reminisce about the good old days when things were quieter

That's why there needs to be some kind of algorithm when it sees the standard sorting of your feed would result in a long list from the same sub it should instead alternate as much as it can with other subs before continuing with the one dominating, if that makes sense.

more before the July 1st influx. Not because of the people, but because there is now more ‘popular’ content that has resulted in less niche content. I’ve subscribed to so many communities that I don’t even see comments from many of the smaller ones because the larger ones dominate the feed.

Do you have any recommendations for cool niche communities? I just got here.

Also, I'm tempted to make different accounts for different feeds to customize what I can see when I want to see them to avoid exactly your described problem.

The riff-raff have started drifting in. Saw an honest-to-Tesla Musk fanboi on here this morning and knew the cherry had been popped.

I've still got two, and I like some features on each better than the other. Kbin for instance doesn't federate with some instances very well, doesn't have an app (yet), and doesn't have some of the other features of Lemmy (like cross-posting), but I like the look of it better and some of the posting features are preferable (like when posting a picture post/thread, it gives you a box for alt text). On the other hand, lemmy has a lot of great apps (I have only tried wefwef and Memmy, but I've heard good things about at least 3 more), allows cross-posting, federates well with both search and posts from other sites/instances, but the /all needs some work and it's not as attractive and is missing some features I'd like. Also, sometimes, one or the other is down, so I just switch. I'm active on both lemmy.world and kbin.social.

Lemmy would become the birth center of the next-Gen memes

I think it's a way of denoting satire. The opinion given, like the grammar used, is intentionally bad. I think it originates with r/okbuddyretard where many of the posts are created in ways that mimic how 12 year olds on the internet speak.

Maybe it's a reference to the phenomenon when a word repeated that way isn't noticed, or an earlier meme that uses it?

Weird. I didn't even notice that until I saw your comment.

Its the old meme format format.

Connect is pretty good, and right now is ad free.