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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
What war? Dafuq are you talking about?
I left Reddit because I strongly dislike what it’s become. This place is better. Why should I want it to be more like Reddit?
Platform growth does not matter here. We legitimately do not give a shit. The fediverse, in entirety, is not now, and never will be, beholden to shareholders, because of the very nature of its OSS underpinnings. We will grow organically, or not, and it will be fine. We don’t need a huge influx of users. In fact, a huge influx of users would kinda suck for a lot of admins, because it would cause a HUGE spike in OpEx, and potentially necessitate the purchase of more infrastructure, which admins probably wouldn’t love.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
I think that's pretty much settled by now. Judging by the stats, it's homed in on a steady line of 45k monthly active users. It's going to be the "or not" part.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
This time last year there was around 38k active users.
I think this kind of slow growth is fine. We just need enough influx to replace people who naturally leave, and maybe a bit more. We don’t have any CEOs or stockholders demanding exponential growth.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 days ago
But this March, it's peaked at almost 52k and we're in constant decline since then.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
IIRC the March peak was another case in which Reddit did something stupid… So yeah, I agree that we can’t just rely on that, at some point they’re going to make it impossible to advertise the fediverse there.