A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances.

  • Hagarashi8@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    You just got used to have millions of users on sub, and forgot that tens of thousands of users is a lot. Especially New users, who is going to read and comment a lot, compared to reddit with half of users being, like, not active at all.

    • nachtigall@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Makes sense. A friend of me unfortunately turns Lemmy down because the largest instance has “only” 1.6k users

        • LemmyAtem@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          So far it’s not over run by assholes and brigades so I’m diggin it, even if content is sparse for now!

        • Slashzero@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Yup. That played a big role for me, too. The other factor was lemmy.ml was the first to approve my signup, finally giving me the ability to post. I’m still looking around to get a feel for other instances, and might even set up my own.