I’ve noticed this in many places in the Lemmyverse in my first few days here. When first signing up almost all the instances were listed as having 2 or less active users. The biggest was Lemmy.ml at something around 1000. Then I’ve seen those numbers listed in other places including a post yesterday that is supposed to help bring redditors to Lemmy.
These numbers will just get most people to turn around and not even consider Lemmy as an alternative.
I saw a GIF today showing the growth of user accounts on Lemmy instances and Lemmy.ml (for example) was over 30000 and many of the other servers were in the 100s, approaching 1000. That’s a HUGE difference and indicates a community that is 10 times (or more) more active than the initial numbers presented indicate.
Any thoughts? Am I out to lunch?
Have you seen the way they ban people?
Haven’t seen a ban yet that was out of line. I’m going to continue posting and commenting on communities here until/unless I don’t like the direction the communities are going.
Set up your own communities, and if it really is that bad you’ll have traffic. If not, then not. Don’t go barking orders at people.
Maybe you haven’t paid a lot of attention?
If you want to remain passive then good for you, you do you. But I won’t let redditors be mislead by numbers. There are a lot of them asking questions right now and I want them to know that no, it’s not just them, something is really odd on this network and we are perfectly able to setup our own communities.
edit:
As I was checking my box after answering you I just got this message. This is the kind of “content” we get on lemmy.ml. This is the tone of the main instance. I leave you with your new friends.
I’m new here and I’m not sure how I’d know about bans. I didn’t actually know anything about the stuff you’ve mentioned in this thread!