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4 days before reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy daily active users has skyrocketed 1600% this month
(lemmy.world)
From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023.
According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."
Sources:
- https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=30
- https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785
There will probably be another bump on July 1st, and probably more to come as Reddit makes more horrible decisions going forward.
100% honestly, I'm not married to the whole concept of the Fediverse - I think it's interesting and solves some problems plaguing modern social media, but has other issues of its own - but Lemmy has, overall, put out a good showing in the various instances' content so far. So here I am with an account and actively posting. Looking forward to continued growth!
I'd be curious to learn more about what problems you see? Many of the issues I see people outline come down to defederation and lack of centralization, but I'd argue those are features rather than bugs.
There is work being done to make it easier to track content across identical communities on multiple instances, we're in very new territory here so the UX is still in flux and being figured out.
This is exactly what I mean. These aren't dealbreakers, but there are downsides to the way that it's structured - namely, admins of larger instances making decisions on the behalf of their members that you may not agree with and the relative complication of discovering new communities on other instances compared to Reddit. Reddit had its own issues inherent to its platform (first-come-first-serve with regard to community names, aggressive attempts at monetization), and I think this one will be better off in terms of management because of the decentralized structure, but that same decentralized structure may put off new users and make it harder to grow.