Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000

(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).

We are seeing:

Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!

  • @HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caEnglish
    27•3 months ago

    Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all

    • BunburyEnglish
      17•3 months ago

      It doesn’t help that all comments mentioning Lemmy are instantly shadowbanned or removed.

        • BunburyEnglish
          8•3 months ago

          I tried in 5 or 6 different subreddits. Different phrasing, sometimes not even outright saying the name, definitely not linking out. None of them made it through.

          • Blaze (he/him)English
            9•3 months ago

            That’s probably the mod team rather than the site as a whole. /r/RedditAlternatives has regular discussions about Lemmy and the Fediverse, so at least that sub is ok

            • @fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
              5•3 months ago

              I have it linked in the subs I mod there. I welcome Reddit relieving me of duty, those subs are being neglected ngl lmao. :)

            • madjoEnglish
              4•3 months ago

              Sure, but the average reddit-user doesn’t frequent /r/RedditAlternatives unless they’re looking for one.

              • Blaze (he/him)English
                5•3 months ago

                The average reddit user isn’t indeed looking for an alternative, so they’re unlikely to welcome any suggestion anyway

                Trust me, I’ve tried several times

                • @HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caEnglish
                  3•3 months ago

                  Tbh I’m not sure the average Reddit user is who we want to attract here anyway. Not to be elitist, but there might be a benefit to at least some barrier to entry. From a bot/spam/troll perspective as well.

                • BunburyEnglish
                  1•3 months ago

                  Depends. I specifically targeted the users saying things like “omg, Reddit is dead. RIP. Where shall we go now?” And “If there were an alternative I’d switch in a heartbeat” or “that’s it, I’m leaving. This was my last straw”. Basically users that genuinely sounded to me like they were looking for something. Not that they ever got to see my response.