On reddit, you can’t post basically anything anymore. Go to computerscience, programming, gaming/games… You can’t post ANYTHING. No matter what you post, removed… It sucks. It’s like 1% of people get to post, everyone else is muted…

But lemmy is better. Here, things are fair, there aren’t over-moderation and too many rules. How do we get people here? No one wants to join lemmy.

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    This time last year there was around 38k active users.

    I think this kind of slow growth is fine. We just need enough influx to replace people who naturally leave, and maybe a bit more. We don’t have any CEOs or stockholders demanding exponential growth.

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      But it’s peaked this March, and we’re in constant decline since then. We’re losing a few hundred users each month, not growing.

      Most Lemmy users and the developers say they prefer slow growth… I mean you’re right. My point is just, it does look more like active decline. And I’m not sure if that’s healthy.

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        IIRC the March peak was another case in which Reddit did something stupid… So yeah, I agree that we can’t just rely on that, at some point they’re going to make it impossible to advertise the fediverse there.