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!

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[–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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