I’ve been on Lemmy for a while but just disliked the previous app options. Now with boost its becoming a daily thing to check in! Love boost

I think a big part of the problem is the sign up page, which is being worked on. Also, lemmy.world goes offline just about every day and is one of the larger instances so lots of new users go there and then have a bad experience. And it needs to be made easier for users to find out about all the third party clients available to browse Lemmy because the default client leaves much to be desired.

Most people won’t go out of their way to switch instances when lemmy.world goes offline enough to make them quit the fediverse, or try navigating around the base client and become upset at all the unnecessary button bloat and missing basic features like blocking an instance.

the 30th also gained slightly over the 29th, from 38,867 up to 38,940

We need more normal users on lemmy tbh. So far, my impression of lemmy is that it’s full of tech enthusiast. I’m one too, so I largely enjoyed it, but eventually it gets annoying and tiring listening to tech bros and FOSS diehards whining about something not being open source or something. I just want more normal content from normal people. I hope boost and sync gets more former Reddit users to sign up.

This thread, while pointing out that there’s some negative trends in active users that can be concerning, actually gave me some hope that there’s many more people here with interests besides Linux and communism. Honestly I find this promising for the long term existence of Lemmy.