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imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Remarkable growth in the past week, and indeed past 3 months. Thank you for providing the stats.
Lemm.ee and sh.itjust.works had been similar in size for most of 2024 (2500-3500 MAUs), but you’re now nearly twice our size.
It’s really nice to see this kind of growth because it’s steadily decreasing the overall share of the Lemmy userbase on lemmy.world and therefore increasing the stability of the network. There had been worries that lemmy.world would steadily increase its share of the userbase and become a single point of failure, but that seems increasingly unlikely.
Lemm.ee has always been a well-run server with great performance and an excellent admin and it’s great to see that new users are choosing the option that will give them the best possible version of what Lemmy can offer.
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 1 day ago
One of the reasons I use this to promote Lemmy is that it defaults to lemm.ee and users don’t run into descision fatigue when picking an instance
Try out the European-Hosted Reddit alternative, Lemmy It also has a Mobile-App
I use it alongside Reddit, and I’m enjoying it more and more, slowly switching over
It would be nice if it could also default to eg. sh.itjust.works and other generalist instances
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I’ve seen people deterred by the name containing"shit"
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
For me it was one of the main motivations to join sh.it.just.works
Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yes, it usually works both ways?
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Name checks out
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yea unfortunately a clean easy url matters
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
A good URL is extremely important for growth. But I wouldn’t say unfortunately, as I don’t think sh.itjust.works users have any desire to become a very large server. We seem to thrive as a smaller, more tight-knit community.
That’s the beauty of the fediverse, whether you’re on the largest or the smallest server, you are basically accessing the same content. The rapid growth of lemm.ee benefits all of us.