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It's gotten a bit busier as far as new posts showing up go (been here since reddit api debacle) but we need like 4,000,000 more users, and then if we just held right there, we'd all be able to live happy little lives. There's still just not enough people to support smaller, more niche instances.
On a side note: Doubly fuck reddit again. I don't get on there to use it, but occasionally I'll hop into an old sub looking for info. Got a notification that /humor deleted my post of a funny poem thing from 15 friggin years ago. One of only 2 posting I ever made that still occasionally got comments on.
Note that for most old-school forums, 40K MAU is absolutely top of the pile in activity. The only reason people expect these MAU on lemmy is just because reddit has it. And don't forget that moar users, moar problems.
I'm old. Chatrooms old. Went through digg and reddit from their infancy. Problems don't show until you start climbing over 10,000,000 active users. That's when eg9s and advertisers and bots and manipulation and overwhelmed mods and all the bullshit starts to chip away at things. 4 to 7 million users is the golden zone. Active and plentiful subs. Little enough bullshit.
Unfortunately the golden zone is golden for a reason, it's very attractive and therefore doesn't remain in that range for long. It's a tipping point
Union lock down. Hit 7 million and no instances part of the fediverse are allowed to have more than 40k subscribers or members unless they already had more when the 7m hits. Then only one new instance a month can be added to the fediverse, and all that apply get voted on to be in. Lol