Lemmy world was growing at a decent pace leading up to July 1st, then had a big influx following the API deadline. However the last week in particular has seen a decline.

Engagement still appears to be the same, although a little lower than the start of the month. A few of the other instances i have been checking follow a similar pattern.

Do you think we will continue growing at a steady pace, or do we need another big trigger to get users to migrate? For Mastodon, it seems there's a big trigger every other week to drive users away from Twitter, but with Reddit, the revolt seems to have quietened down considerably.

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The exodus from reddit has stabilized and we've made this place our experimental home. That wave is over. We won't get another wave until some of the kinks are smoothed out. If we have fewer shutdowns and better apps then I bet we'll get steady growth. Also it might take a while for people to realize that lemmy is easier to use than mastodon, which gave federation a bad name for most normies.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, I've migrated but my time spent browsing Lemmy vs Reddit has tanked. Less than 10% of my previous time. This is due to still waiting for a Sync for Lemmy release and lemmy.world having issues with session. I've been unable to log in consistently since the hack.

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You really should have more than one instance that you can sign up to, it's a feature here. Voyager and Liftoff are pretty good in the meantime and you can switch instances easily.

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm new to this. What are instances?

[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world is an instance, it's your home server.

[–] CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm on the sync for Lemmy private beta right now. You are in for a treat! 🤌 Google should approve the preload page any day now (ball is in their court). And then after that we're looking at maybe a week until public beta.