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…
Same, I’ve always wanted something community-powered to take off and finally actually draw users away from the corporate owned garbage, but it never happened. Now that the corporate platforms all decided to shoot their feet in unison, we’re finally seeing some adoption of more user-friendly platforms and I’m loving it.
Yeah, that’s why I’m a fan of free software, it’s a collaborative effort to create and improve software for the community, that doesn’t treat it’s users like a product to be exploited. It’s a noble cause. Corps like to attract user making a “good” product and when big enough, they switch to predatorial tactics to squeeze dry their userbase.
100% agree. Free and open software is free because the developers are also the users, the goal is to collectively produce something that is as good as it can be for the user. Proprietary software is created by a company and targeted at users who are not the developers, the developers usually have little to no stake in the usefulness of the software, it’s just a means to an end. That end is always money, so exploiting the user becomes the goal.
True, when the dev is also the user, the software is made to satisfy both, and its sad for the devs that works in corporate too, because most of them want to make the best product too, but the higher-ups are the ones choosing what anti-customer shit they have to implement, and they often have to crunch too.