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
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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?
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.
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.
Plenty of magazines and content over here on Kbin, it's certainly not just an aggregator.
It's still a steady growth, around 2000 more active users on Lemmy + kbin every day:
https://i.imgur.com/xBZWcj5.png
Getting better and better by the minute :)
Awesome!
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.
Personally lemmy didn't work out, so I went with kbin. Reddit does not have these kinds of choices.
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
sick! go team!
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.
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