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The next 2 weeks...any predictions/bets on what it will be then?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been on Lemmy for about 3 weeks. It also got me to return to Mastodon. And both the sites are “fast” enough with new content so that I go to Reddit less and less. It’s enough.

We do need to keep growing. We need to engage new users so they come and stay. But that is a struggle all scaleups know.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally lemmy didn't work out, so I went with kbin. Reddit does not have these kinds of choices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yes. The ability for users and admins to literally choose their feature sets while still getting access to the same content is a big, big plus for for the distributed and federated model

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

Part of me thinks the rapid growth is over and that user retention is the new struggle; but part of me holds out hope that the reddit api finally dying will push over yet another wave of users

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One worry I have is the opposite scale. Active user growth have been pretty linear so far, but the network effect is pushing user activity growth at a higher rate.

But there is still under 100 kbin servers.

If there is a burst of new users and post activity after the API change, will the system be able to scale up fast enough to cope?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Knob is mainly just aggregating Lemmy and Mastodon. So it does not need so many servers. Lemmy has surpassed 1000 servers a few days ago.

We will get there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's the number of users logging in and hitting those servers that's the main issue. 44,000 users is a lot for one instance to be pushing content to. I wouldn't say it's just aggregating Lemmy content either though, there are plenty of popular communities on kbin as well, including this one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Plenty of magazines and content over here on Kbin, it's certainly not just an aggregator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still a steady growth, around 2000 more active users on Lemmy + kbin every day:

https://i.imgur.com/xBZWcj5.png

Getting better and better by the minute :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

sick! go team!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What the problem is going to be is attracting the average user. I'm an average, 35-45, mom, tech user. I am struggling on kbin so far. But I'll get there.

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