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Does any one know a way to quantify the growth of lemmy/ the fediverse? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It would be an interesting shot across the bow to corporate controlled social media to show opensource, open access social medias growth. I'm sure its in an exponential phase. It also would seem important to the community to know. Is there a way to query across the fediverse to look at user numbers?

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[–] fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow. Thats a great graph. Does any one have an interpretation for the bumps/ toothed pattern we see earlier in the plot?

Is that instances coming and going, or maybe testing of some kind?

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it's activity, not user growth

[–] fomo_erotic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah. That makes more sense. So those were media moments where it got a lot of attention maybe?

[–] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

honestly, i'm new here, so i wasn't around during the dips. as such, I can't offer insight into that, but that spike at the end? Christian Selig, developer/former developer of Apollo - with his post about Reddit's API change - is personally responsible for that, lol. I mean... you could argue that Reddit's ownership is responsible for it, but that's just splitting hairs, I think.

edit: Christian, in no way, has sponsored (or to my knowledge even mentioned) Lemmy, it was just what sparked the Reddexit.

[–] pancake@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

No, I don't recall any increase in activity then, it must be a glitch.

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That looks like a glitch, I dont remember anything special happening at that time.