this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2024
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Lemmy

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26 users here now

Everything about Lemmy; bugs, gripes, praises, and advocacy.

For discussion about the lemmy.ml instance, go to !meta@lemmy.ml.

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by zabadoh@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 

User count has plateaued at about 420K

Active user count rose significantly between 2/24 37K to 3/24 51K

Hopefully users who signed up last year are coming back to use their accounts.

Maybe because they're tired of ads on reddit?

Should we put together a collection and and buy an ad campaign on Reddit?

I can see it now:

"Ads suck. We're ad-free forever. Join Lemmy."

and

"He'll never get us. Join Lemmy." or "Don't let him get you. Join Lemmy"

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 29 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What would be the point of trying to increase the user count, beyond "line goes up"?

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 11 points 7 months ago

Niche communities really only have value when they grow organically. Trying to artificially inflate them won't make them better.

[–] cestvrai@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago

I find Lemmy is better with fewer users just like Reddit used to be.

I kinda miss a few subs but they’ve been replaced by new things I discovered here.

The websites can coexist and users can do as we please.