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What is the current state of Lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by ZenkorSoraz@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Has it grown like people have kept predicting? or is this peak lemmy? Did Peak Lemmy already happen?

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 4 months ago

Lemmy has been stable on users since the Reddit Exodus, which is probably good because I don't see Lemmy in its current form able to handle growth.

Onboarding new users is a hassle unless those users know someone already on Lemmy to act as a guide. This is just going to push more people to default instances.

I think that the developers need to shift to a more distributed method of developing an open source project, including stakeholder input on what to develop next.

People complain about moderation, but I feel like a decent problem had been in distributing ownership of instances across several people and developing policy from that.

If Lemmy were to grow, it would likely grow as a fork.