In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.

My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.

Now I’m taking a break. I won’t post anything or I’ll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content 😢?)

But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.

However… I’m just curious.

Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?

Edit: I will still post stuff. I’ll just post a lot less!

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    I feel like part of it also is that Lemmy isn’t designed for anywhere near the traffic that Reddit gets. For instance, Lemmy maintained Reddit’s mod power structure based on mod service length.

    Also Lemmy hasn’t really done a lot to build spam fighting measures. If the user base grows 10x the current size, I can see spam becoming a bigger problem which could affect usability.

    • Gorilladrums@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 hour ago

      While I agree with you that Lemmy is vulnerable to spam, I don’t think it’ll a problem any time soon. Even if the userbase grows ten fold, that would still only be around 350k users. That’s not enough to attract any major attention. Any spam Lemmy would get would come internally from users feuding with the devs or each other.