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This needs to happen. This is getting ridiculous
The site grew something like twenryfold in the span of two days... Honestly I'm impressed at how mild the ridiculousness has been
When you look at Lemmy as a whole though, the growth is significant, but the total is not that huge.
The number of Lemmy users has increased from ~50K at the start of the month to ~135K today, so a bit under 3x. (For comparison, that's approx. 0.2% of reddit's active daily user accounts, or 0.008% of reddit's active monthly user accounts.)
That we are seeing technical, trust, financial, and social/management scaling problems leading to defederation, servers being overloaded, etc. at this relatively tiny level of engagement is a bit worrying, but also kind of encouraging in a way. Better to encounter these things and address them early on, while the system is up and running.
The good news is that there seems to be no shortage of people willing to help out. Lemmy is working for now, but these rumblings of future scaling problems need to be tackled. We have a growing user base, and there seems to be no shortage of motivation for creating a viable reddit alternative.
EDIT: forgot to multiply by 100 to get % ๐คฆ
Just a correction, 135,000 is 0.2% of 52,000,000, not .002%. If 135,000 users was .002% of Reddit's daily active users, that would mean Reddit would have over 6 billion daily active users.
D'oh! Thanks, forgot to multiply by 100 to get %. I think I've spent too long in the sun today! :D