Lemmy reached 54994 monthly active users

It is indeed a nice bump. Although we've been here before, I guess reaching a peak of almost 56k MAU last March, before it fell down to 43k at the end of last year.

The trick will be to see if people stay... vs. going back to Reddit, or perhaps Bluesky. PieFed gives me strong hopes for that. Lemmy offers smaller hopes and more for medium-term as they start to catch up with even half of those new features in 1.0 on their roadmap (edit: by which time PieFed will have far eclipsed its feature set, plus offering far less "Reddit 2.0", authoritarian style moderation in favor of democratization where the users themselves control their personal experiences using the same community structure; although the real test will be how well PieFed handles scaling to more users), but it too is still loads better than enshittified platforms.