This is the growth of our lemmy instance, without any advertising or spruiking. It was spun up as a test more than anything else, but it seems that it has become more than that!

Even though the graph shows the growth spike from April to June, in reality it’s even more stark than that. We have gone from 20 users to 100 users in a week!

We’ll be spinning up a kbin instance soon too, and when we do, we might shut down registration on the lemmy instance. We’ll keep them up for now though, given the load on lemmy.ml from reddit migrations

Image descriptive text: A screenshot of a graph from fedidb.org showing user growth for lemmy.blahaj.zone. It shows 20 users in April, and 100 users in June

  • bdazman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I just wanted to say thank you for spooling this up and running it all. I know it must be annoying sometimes but I’m really, really thankful to you all. When y’all got a way for us to buy you friends some coffee, save hyrule and send link!

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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      1 year ago

      De nada :)

      It was mostly spun up as a playground for me to test out lemmy, but it has turned in to a whole community, which is amazing

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    1 year ago

    I know that maintaining and moderating something like this is super difficult, especially with such rapid user growth, so I want to ask how can members of the community best help you with the community? I’ve already fallen in love with how kind and insightful this community is, and I’d love to help in any way possible :)

    (Also, on a less general note, I’m a software developer who does full-stack development, so if there’s any help that can be given in a technical sense I’d love to pitch in!)

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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      At the moment there isn’t much to do. We’re ok absorbing the costs of our instances for now. We run a pretty heavily customised fork of Calckey on blahaj.zone, but our lemmy instance is almost (but not quite) straight out of the box.

      Keep on chatting, and keep the community vibrant sounds like a non answer, but still, do that :)

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    We’ll be spinning up a kbin instance soon too…

    Excitement! 🥳

    I’m really interested to see how this goes: both comparisons setting up and maintaining the two apps, as well as your experience with any eventual transition/consolidation. This kind of trailblazing is so cool.

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    Due to federation showing me so many posts, I thought that Blåhaj had way more than 100 users! It’s nice that we can still be connected to other instances while the server remains at a manageable level. Thanks for spinning this up and allowing so many folks to join! Looking forward to the kbin instance too.

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      That post was made 8 days ago. We’re over 1000 users now! It has been crazy!

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        1 year ago

        Yikes, that says something about my attention to detail I guess haha. Regardless, thanks for your efforts! Do you have a means by which to accept donations for server costs perchance?

        • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPM
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          Not at the moment. We’re ok absorbing the costs for now. We might set something up in the future, but it’s not a priority

  • NoxiousPluK@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Well, glad I got in on time then :)

    I got lured by the great name, and this seems like a cozy place. Thanks for hosting it!

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    1 year ago

    @ada wow!! That is a quite a success!!
    And I read that you will start a new kbin instance soon? Really amazing news!!