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

  • @what_is_a_name@lemmy.world
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    111 year ago

    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.

    • AppleMango
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      71 year ago

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

      • Kichae
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        51 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

  • esty
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    101 year ago

    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

    • Pons_AeliusOP
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      1 year ago

      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?

      • @what_is_a_name@lemmy.world
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        21 year ago

        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.

        • atocci
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          21 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.

        • fenndev
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          11 year ago

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

  • MagpieMama
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    11 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.