crazypeople.online continues to grow steadily. The number of local users is up and multiple communities have been started by others. It’s nice to see the resources being utilized, and occasionally seeing other members throughout Lemmy.

I’m happy with the growth and activity on pretty much all of the communities I started here-

[email protected] continues to gain subscribers as the MAUs hover around 3k.

[email protected] has significantly fewer subscribers than weedtime but has more MAUs. There are more people replying and voting here but not many posting.

[email protected] has a few more subscribers than the meme community with much lower MAUs. This community sees a lot more posting from others compared to the meme community though so MAUs don’t tell the whole story. Music posts don’t get mass upvoted the way memes do lol.

[email protected] has crept up slowly in subscribers and MAUs. There’s a core group of us that post there regularly with new people popping in from time to time. Nothing crazy but it’s active. What more can you hope for on Lemmy?

[email protected] is in a similar place. The numbers are lower than the pokemon community but there are a couple regulars and some occasional discussions in the comments. This is by far the slowest community but it was always going to be that way without others contributing. I’m looking at options to have bot posts for popular series/events since there is so much going on in racing that it’s hard to keep up with all the schedules. At least that way the content would flow in more regularly and potentially bring in more people and discussion.

I hope everyone was successful in relocating their communities during the shutdown of lemm.ee. Hopefully it brings some new exposure to communities that will quickly build them back even better than before. Best of luck to everyone trying to build something special on Lemmy. Your efforts are appreciated. 💚

Disclaimer: I’m not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.

Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn’t it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that’s the platform you prefer?