• trambe@lemmy.world
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      I think that’s normal. People will try out Lemmy but if they notice that the communities they frequent doesn’t have a lot of content they’ll just leave back to reddit.

      We can hope for organic growth but it’ll take a long time (especially with how big reddit is)

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      Lemmy will still be receiving stragglers. E.g. I only signed up yesterday! I only went on Reddit once every few weeks or so, and thus only just found out where my communities had migrated to. I’m sure there are many users like me who haven’t yet followed their communities to their new homes.

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      They might be using some smoothing, because all lines are noise-free. and the last point might just be an artifact. It looks like a constant growth

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        According to the graph it accounts for active users within the last 30 days. 30Days ago the reddit strike started and an influx of people started posting. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people haven’t been here since. There was a lot of performance and other issues with lemmy&kbin at that time.

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          There is also always a flurry of people trying out accounts in multiple instances whenever there’s a migration wave, so not only are we seeing people who dipped a toe in only to leave, or go back to Reddit, but we’re seeing the effect of people understanding how the ecosystem works better and settling into a single active account.

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      Those were going to leave left by now, but there are several alternatives. Lemmy didn’t take all Reddit refugees.

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        True but I’ve heard that Discuit and Squabbles are well under 10k users apiece so the majority of refugees came to Lemmy I think. Which makes sense because those alternatives are centralized anyway, so they were never going to solve the problem we were running from.

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            Ok, I want to say we should get them over to Lemmy, but everything will work itself out in due time. I’m just happy that’s 30k more people who left reddit.