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…
I’m the exact same way, and in all my time online this has seemed like the most likely event to topple Reddit. The exclusion of third party apps is the most tangible change to the average user, so unless Reddit can match Apollo or RiF in quality (or close enough for now), I think a lot of people are going to be leaving the platform on July 1st.
Time will tell though. I see a lot of talk about leaving Reddit but so far most of my subs haven’t made an effort to migrate over. This could be the next “Voat migration” and just as easily fade away.