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[Lemmy active users] 28th of September was the only day with more monthly active Lemmy users than the previous one, probably thanks to the release of Boost for Lemmy (lemmy.fediverse.observer)

submitted 9 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Link to the daily stats: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

By the way, welcome to everyone who joined thanks to Boost!

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[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

Interesting, hopefully new joiners won't stumble directly upon communities that might push them away ha ha

[-] antik@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Imagine joining thanks to Boost and the first thing you see is "boost? Ewww go away, use Foss"

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 9 months ago

Don't get me started on this, FOSS gatekeepers can really have a detrimental effect on the platform.

I love FOSS as much as the next guy, but if my cousin is asking me support for an Office issue, I'm not going to tell them to install LibreOffice.

[-] antik@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Same. Using Linux and FOSS for over 20 years but that Boost announcement thread was toxic. We just started removing those comments and banning them from the community. Those people don't see those 1000 people that came here thanks to boost will now more than likely come across Linux and Foss related subjects anyway. No need to push it down their throats and push them back to reddit.

Honestly there are people doing this because they know it annoys people.

Ofcourse there were people calling me a "poweradmin" because of it, but I have thick skin 😁 And a large banhammer 😏