Per the title, is Lemmy actually growing, or will it stagnate and fade into obscurity like many other similar discussion boards?

    • @[email protected]
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      13 hours ago

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      I find it kinda concerning how the number of instances is shrinking and number of users per instance is going up. IMO it should be part of the fediverse design to incentivize decentralization to avoid a gmail situation.

      Also worrying is that the number of Active Users is trending constant or slightly down, but the number of posts over time is climbing dramatically. To me, this could be a sign of inauthentic behaviour on the rise.

    • @njm1314
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      813 hours ago

      Total post doesn’t really tell us much. Of course there’s going to be more posts over time. Hell there are Bots that post things. That number is going to go up as long as the servers exist. There could be no human users on here and those are going to go up.

      • db0
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        13 hours ago

        This is just absolute number total posts and they’re a shitposting heaven that existed for 4 years before the big reddit exodus. In monthly posts they’re still in the top 10 iirc but not 2nd

    • @[email protected]
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      413 hours ago

      sh.it.heads: “We’re number 5! We’re number 5!”

      (me. I’m probably the only one chanting at this fact)