Is Lemmy gaining or losing active users over time?

Lemmy@lemmy.ml – 75 points – 2 years ago

I'm new here, so I'd like to know if this project is growing steadily or not really catching on. It has a lot of potentioal imho, but I understand how hard it is to make people use "alternative" websites.

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generally speaking adding code to the main code base requires a maintenance overhead maintainers might not be willing to accept, Also there could be disagreements about important design decisions and lemmy devs might not want certain features, it's really hard to know in advance what works best so third party extensions can help a project switch from a mode of "intelligent design" to "evolution", people just try stuff and the best stuff stays and become popular.

Also advanced features might clutter the UX , but power users could be the ones driving the popularity of the platform so that's one way to attract them.

Also performance. Add-ons tend to be opt in, so they don't cause things to slow down for people that don't use them.

If you don't mind me asking, how did you get to this comment? it's over then two years old (and seems like your not the only one because someone upvoted you).

I too have been sent here. It's at the top of hot right now.

Seems to be a Lemmy zombie post glitch that needs to be addressed.