Lemmy growth is crazy!
Blahaj zone (the Calckey instance) has been running for around 6 months now. We've had a slow but constant growth of new members, with a big spike when Calckey drew a lot of attention. And as a result, even though we're not a huge instance, we are one of the larger Calckey derived instances around.
lemmy.blahaj.zone on the other hand has seen crazy growth! In the last week, our lemmy instance has gone from almost no members, to nearly as many users as our Calckey instance. The mind blowing part though, is that the lemmy instance isn't even close to being one of the largest lemmy instances. We don't even appear on the first page of Fediverse Observer! And the sheer number of lemmy instances online now is huge compared to where it was a couple of weeks ago.
And that's before we even talk about kbin and the threadiverse as a whole, of which Lemmy is only a part
I can honestly say that this whole thing has shifted my view of just what the future of the fediverse might be. I assumed it would always be microblogging centric, but now, I question that...
#fediverse #lemmy #kbin #threadiverse #calckey
@lemmy@lemmy.ml @fediverse@lemmy.ml
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone @fediverse@lemmy.ml When facebook,twitter etc ruled the roost, it would have been hard to believe that you could have all these different services talking to each other, but here I am talking to your lemmy instance from my pleroma one.
Speaking of groups, it will be good to see mastodon/pixelfed get groups, but to my mind group-based communities are a different beast than microblogging, that deserve their own space, but still connect to everything.
And just to really highlight the flexibility, my post was made to Lemmy from Calckey!
And I'm reading it on /kbin
Yeah, it's awesome. Almost like I'm responding to American posts from my European ISP, or sending e-mail from my own server to Gmail, or from Outlook to Yahoo. Or...
I know this is impressing in the social media space, but it is mainly because of the social media companies locked us all in.
I remember when I first joined Twitter when it was new (about 2009 or so), and at the same time I joined https://identi.ca/ which was a fantastic fediverse alternative to Twitter. It even supported groups by !-tagging!