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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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[–] Hagarashi8@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

You just got used to have millions of users on sub, and forgot that tens of thousands of users is a lot. Especially New users, who is going to read and comment a lot, compared to reddit with half of users being, like, not active at all.

[–] nachtigall@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Makes sense. A friend of me unfortunately turns Lemmy down because the largest instance has "only" 1.6k users

[–] setsneedtofeed@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I’m going to bee honest, the mascot was a big factor in picking this instance for me.

[–] slashzero@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yup. That played a big role for me, too. The other factor was lemmy.ml was the first to approve my signup, finally giving me the ability to post. I’m still looking around to get a feel for other instances, and might even set up my own.

[–] Swintoodles@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only reason I didn't go to lemmy.ml is because their top post was "please go somewhere else." Lol

[–] slashzero@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I saw that too, but other places I signed up still haven’t approved me, so I signed up here.

[–] wickerlark@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I’m probably gonna end up doing my own instance at some point once I get my bearings around here, plus it’s just fun to learn new technology!

[–] slashzero@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I’m in the process of setting up my own instance for fun, as today was a slow work day.

[–] Hellbrewer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Wait, you guys need approvals? #wereTheMillersMeme

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