I’ve noticed this in many places in the Lemmyverse in my first few days here. When first signing up almost all the instances were listed as having 2 or less active users. The biggest was Lemmy.ml at something around 1000. Then I’ve seen those numbers listed in other places including a post yesterday that is supposed to help bring redditors to Lemmy.
These numbers will just get most people to turn around and not even consider Lemmy as an alternative.
I saw a GIF today showing the growth of user accounts on Lemmy instances and Lemmy.ml (for example) was over 30000 and many of the other servers were in the 100s, approaching 1000. That’s a HUGE difference and indicates a community that is 10 times (or more) more active than the initial numbers presented indicate.
Any thoughts? Am I out to lunch?
First, stop posting to lemmy.ml, the admins there are crazy. Don’t give them more content.
We redditors have waaaay enough number to populate our own instances without having to rely on the moderation of crazy people. Look at the population of beehaw skyrocketing since the last few days, we are the king makers. lemmy has never seen such an influx of members.
So pick whatever instance you prefer and we plant our tent there, and we path the way for the redditors who will inevitable follow us. Don’t feed them the same horrible experience we endured for the last few days of being exposed to the crazy moderation, the crazy putin apologists and such, we need to guide the ex-redditors to our instances, where we completely keep the crazy population away.
Hey, what about joining an EU instance, so when we click “politics” we don’t have 90% american stories? Beehaw is already filled with americans. Do you want more american politics, more american gun stories and more woke war, more nba stories? I don’t.
I’m on solarpunks now (https://slrpnk.net/), which is hosted in Portugal. Come here guys, we recreate our reddit from scratch with a taste of Europe.
