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submitted 1 year ago by ada@blahaj.zone to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Lemmy growth is crazy!

Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We've had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we're not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.

lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn't even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don't even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.

And that's before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part

I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that...

#fediverse #lemmy #kbin #threadiverse #calckey

@lemmy@lemmy.ml @fediverse@lemmy.ml

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[-] XLRV@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 year ago

I'm glad that the Fediverse is thriving right now, I didn't know much about it a week ago, thanks Reddit I guess.

[-] ada@blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago

@XLRV@lemmy.ml The Fediverse really took off in November when twitter jumped the shark. It's been around for many years longer than that, but the twitter influx really changed the shape of the community. And now the reddit influx is doing the same thing again

[-] XLRV@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I wasn't interested in Twitter, I've heard about Mastodon and the Fediverse, but the Reddit situation is what made me jump into it. I loved the Reddit format so Lemmy was a simple choice.

I hope you won't be too overwhelmed with the current boom of the Fediverse.

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