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New users is not a good metric. Many people will create accounts just to check it out even if they dont stay.
I've made multiple Lemmy accounts on different servers.
sure, but it's still an indicator of growth and some percentage of users does stay active
This is going to work like the Mastodon migrations. It will come in waves as Reddit does more and more shitty stuff.
Most likely, and this works well because it allows time for server capacity to grow and for wrinkles to get ironed out gradually. Fediverse would have a hard time absorbing millions of people all at once, but a gradual trickle of users allows things to grow organically.
The individual instances doesn't really matter. What is actually shown in the picture is that fediverse grew by 200k users.
It actually does matter for the individual instances because the amount of content and interactions grows regardless which server users join because servers federate with each other. This is a fundamentally different dynamic from commercial walled gardens where each platform competes for users with every other.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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