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Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances (public.flourish.studio)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A timeline I created of the total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances as a bar chart race: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14058992/ and as a line chart: https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/14080522/.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve known about Lemmy for a few months and just registered with Beehaw because it looked active and had a funny name.

What has been the biggest driver in activity? I’m curious how a community like Beehaw bootstraps itself into existence

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In short, engagement. A bunch of us migrated off another Reddit alternative which promised a lot of what we set out to do, but in our opinion failed in moderating itself and actually promoting a nice environment. This core group of individuals has been enthusiastic about carving a little space for ourselves on the internet for like-minded people and that dedication that comes alongside engagement is what kept us active and slowly growing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m curious, was the Reddit alternative non Lemmy based? I know there have been a bunch of attempts have been tried, but I didn’t keep up too much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They were not lemmy based, no.