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
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!)
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 :)