I know we are temporarily non-lemmy, but we will reunite soon. Here's some relevant :reddit-logo: comments:

The lemmyverse currently has 54 instances, and 1.2K monthly active users.

Yeah, with numbers like that they're going to need to get the word out a whole lot more.

DataHoarders

As of the writing of this post, we have 425 people online, which is pretty typical.

Thousands??? Last I checked Lemmy had 460 monthly users. That means a large majority of those "communities" don't really exist. With that few people, even 1 "community" is going to be looking mighty dead.

Mastadon has 10 million users and people still complain about how dead it is. Lemmy and their 460 users?? LOL.

I can't figure out why it keeps being brought up. It would crumble under any amount of real traffic. Best I can figure is all 460 of their users are shilling on reddit.

InternetIsBeautiful

There's a bunch more but I'm not really trying to make any point besides, "huh, look at that" so I will not put in any more effort.

    • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I believe lemmy was already underway as a project when r/CTH got banned. During the Discord Interregnum, it was decided to start a new instance so as not to overwhelm lemmy.ml with that community's particular culture. A chunk of former CTH people went to lemmy, of course, but it wasn't a split. - it was a decision not to merge. That's how I remember it at least.

        • jack [he/him, comrade/them]
          hexagon
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          1 year ago

          Either way i don’t think this site will ever grow.

          If that's the case then oh well. It's extremely active and seems stable. It's got years left in it without growth.

          • dinklesplein [any, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            smaller forums have been around for longer yeah, so long as i'm a communist and there are other communists here i'll always find my way back to this site eventually.

        • familiar [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          No they're pretty much right, the only thing is that we merged 6 months before Lemmy had federation in place, and our codebase had significantly diverged by then.