It's worth noting that Lemmy only had around 1000 active users for the first half of 2023. (Kbin had fewer than 40 active users until May 2023!) Currently Lemmy + Kbin have about 38,000 active users.

That's the reality of where we are. A quiet rural village that turned into a boom town, and now is finding a new normal.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 48 points 7 months ago

I never even new lemmy existed until the reddixit and I never went back because I think lemmy is a lot less toxic. Also worth pointing out that this post alone has more than 800 likes When I firsf came around top posts had 100 likes tops

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

for what it's worth, it's a small active community. Those that stay participate, like a pre-Eternal September internet. I've seen memes here before they made it to reddit, that's a shift in "power" that can't be understated in the landscape of the internets.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

I think "the good ending" looks something like that.

We aren't beholden to stockholders, so we don't need perpetual growth. We aren't driven by an egomaniacal CEO so we don't need to be the biggest social network around. We just need to find our equilibrium.

[–] Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works 13 points 7 months ago

There's some of us!

[–] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly. There's nothing out of the ordinary in that chart, just a quick growth, that led to an overshoot, and now it's stabilizing In the next months, we will probably see a more stable pattern of linear-looking growth, with occasional peaks here and there.