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Is Lemmy actually growing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Per the title, is Lemmy actually growing, or will it stagnate and fade into obscurity like many other similar discussion boards?

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hexbear? Really?

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is just absolute number total posts and they're a shitposting heaven that existed for 4 years before the big reddit exodus. In monthly posts they're still in the top 10 iirc but not 2nd

[–] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

after the grad and .ml, hexbear is the oldest lemmy instance it pre-dates federation by over 2 years

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

It's very active, but also a lot older than many other instances.