It’s been a while since I last seen anyone posting graphs showing user base growth. Are we past the initial rush and bleeding numbers now?

  • PenguinJuice
    173•1 year ago

    Slow organic growth is far better than explosives, unsustainable growth. We continue to provide content and actual authentic conversation and they will come.

    • @sheogorathEnglish
      51•1 year ago

      Yep, I also love the late 00s and early 10s feeling to Lemmy now. I find myself having more stuff done IRL since quitting reddit and browsing Lemmy occasionally.

      • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠English
        34•1 year ago

        I’m finding I use Lemmy more than Reddit, because the place is less hostile and the discussions are usually actually worth reading again.

        • @ddittyEnglish
          7•1 year ago

          And I’m finding myself actually posting comments instead of drafting and deleting them like I did on Reddit for the last 6-7 years. The comment threads really deteriorated on Reddit over the last decade

    • IndiBronyEnglish
      35•1 year ago

      I came. And I agree. Anything that gets too popular too quickly just turns to shit. A huge influx of users who stuck around would have ended up turning this place into Reddit 2.0

      I don’t want this to be Reddit 2.0

        • IndiBronyEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          Not unintentional 👀

      • @[email protected]English
        9•1 year ago

        It very nearly did. I was noticing reddit like behavior during the july 1 period of lemmy. Thankfully it has subsided and the general civility of discourse has returned.

        Either that or it’s because I have blocked enough people already to weed out the assholes.

          • 🦥󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠󠀠English
            2•1 year ago

            Usually I notice the admins are right onto it and actually take reports seriously. It’s so refreshing.

        • @Tag365English
          1•1 year ago

          What kind of behavior happened during July 1?

          • @[email protected]English
            5•1 year ago

            I noticed a somewhat trend of reddit like replies, you know the usual one liner tired puns, never ending chain of them. The replies were aggressive and argumentative. Some comments straying from the topic of the post, in favor of making in jokes that were traceable to reddit it’s origin (obviously because majority came from reddit)

            Right now, there is less of that. Might be most people got tired and returned to reddit.