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Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 9 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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How is the size of Lemmy's userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?

I feel like I used to see graphs on this sub fairly regularly, but haven't seen one recently. There was also some ambiguity in the numbers as commenting and voting were added to the active user totals. Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19, do we have a better idea of where things stand?

Aside from sticking around and posting, commenting, and voting, is there anything users should be doing to help grow the platform? (!lemmygrow would be a good name for a sublemmy, if anyone wanted to organize something)

In any case, thanks to everyone who has helped grow Lemmy to its current size!

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[-] admin@lemmy.tellyou.social 89 points 9 months ago

Have a look here https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

[-] filister@lemmy.world 48 points 9 months ago

I didn't know there were almost as many Germans as Americans, the majority of Reddit users were Americans which has created Americocentric perspective on a lot of topics which from a European perspective was quite annoying.

[-] waldek@lemmy.86thumbs.net 32 points 9 months ago

I did not verify my thoughts but I think this could be because ovh has big datacenters in Germany and quite a lot of Europeans use ovh.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 45 points 9 months ago

fediverse had a strong european presence before the reddit migration too. The Mastodon lead-dev/founder, for instance, is German. And European governments have been far more interested in running their own instances on the fediverse than any other country AFAICT (to the point that I've seen it confuse North-American admins).

[-] narp@feddit.de 23 points 9 months ago

I think one of the Lemmy devs is German too

[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 25 points 9 months ago

Yes that's me :)

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 3 points 9 months ago

Thank you for your work.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago

Yeah open source seems to be a big thing in Germany specifically for some reason

[-] Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 months ago

Why do the graphs look so weird?

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

Fuck me, pie charts with 50 segments??? Maybe they look weird because pie charts suck if you have more than 2-3 things to show

And the rest on the page don’t display well on mobile

[-] admin@lemmy.tellyou.social 15 points 9 months ago

Youre right - feel free to make and share a better Version. I think the community appreciates forks and contributions :)

[-] jeffw@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

No, I’m just here to sit in my armchair and judge other people’s design choices.

But on a serious note, I wouldn’t even know how. I barely played around in R but the only semi-legit data viz stuff I ever did was in Tableau. And that was only with static data

[-] darakan@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

So basically, had a massive spike during the reddit blackout in July last year. Dropped down to half by November and has since shown fairly steady (if measured) growth. I think that's a good sign.

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What just happened to the number of servers? Did the admins just decide they want to go with quality over quantity? Or does it have something to do with political conditions?

[-] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 21 points 9 months ago

Probably lots of people trying to start another general instance that didn't draw any users and then deciding to shut it down. FWIW I think we have instances enough (from a users point of view, I don't think it matters much whether there are 100 or 1000 instances). We could be spread over the instances more evenly though.

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