Has it grown like people have kept predicting? or is this peak lemmy? Did Peak Lemmy already happen?
FediDB says Lemmy is steady. There are some interesting stats in there. There are about 44k monthly active users, which has been true for a while, and there was a huge influx of new instances shortly after Reddit Day, but most of them dropped off and the number of users per instance has been steadily climbing and the total active instances steadily falling.
Lemmy has been stable on users since the Reddit Exodus, which is probably good because I don’t see Lemmy in its current form able to handle growth.
Onboarding new users is a hassle unless those users know someone already on Lemmy to act as a guide. This is just going to push more people to default instances.
I think that the developers need to shift to a more distributed method of developing an open source project, including stakeholder input on what to develop next.
People complain about moderation, but I feel like a decent problem had been in distributing ownership of instances across several people and developing policy from that.
If Lemmy were to grow, it would likely grow as a fork.
I think there is an alarmingly high number of users with a very large amount of heavily downvoted bad takes… usually from specific homeservers but not always. I’ve seen a whole lot more blatantly terrible attitudes compared to reddit.
The API documentation is extremely bad, especially for non-JS devs, and the developers defend it saying there’s nothing wrong and no plans to change it. People are always getting confused about how to use it to get the information they want and often never find any good help.
I am not hopeful that it will grow positively.
I’m happy the way it is. Massive growth will just turn it into another shit hole like Reddit, which I came here to get away from.
I agree with the sentiment, when things get too popular every sub becomes more generic and filled with recycled or low effort content. But there’s a happy medium. It would be nice if there were enough people that some more niche communities had activity.
There’s a lot of smaller communities that are only kept going by one dedicated poster, or never got the critical mass to keep going, which is a shame.
It is far from getting to that point. That will happen when it becomes mainstream enough to attract normies. Lemmy could still use a lot of growth. I only get to consume content that happens to be available here, rather than being able to pick niche communities being active on the topics I would like.
its grow enough that reddits shitty app annoy me a week ago and I haven’t looked back
I walked away from reddit after Alien Blue had to get pulled, and haven’t looked back.
There are a few niche areas Lemmy hasn’t had a chance to build a community yet - AskHistorians comes to mind - that I miss, but time will hopefully solve that.
A better question is… Is Lemmy better than reddit in some way so it’s worth for users to switch to it?
I like that it’s decentralized, but the largest instances seem to have moderation policies that are very similar to reddit.
Moderation was always mostly in the user’s hands, so it makes sense that it didn’t change.
In what way was it in users hands? It’s always been in the hands of the creator of the sub/comm.
I have news for you xD the creator of the sub/community is a normal user. You can create your own community and run it however you want, even democratically or whatever.
Okay I did that, now what? There’s nobody there.
