A change in direction for the project this week?
Maybe the reputation of stability on lemmy.world and people realizing that the amount of activity really wasn't that high - and lemm.ee shutting out images. Most of all, Beehaw's criticism maybe finally resonated.
Beehaw was online a full year before Reddit - and saw just how long-term issues were not being addressed… maybe that is what it took.
It is worth keeping a positive eye on things.
The lack of care for data and actually noticing data on the site keeps being demonstrated. Issue has been ignored for months - and was newly introduced bug when all the post Reddit API change was going on…
Just opened today, people repeating it, which the site creators do not repeat these easily solved bugs as priorities. Why not have a "top 20 bugs" and organize them 2 ways, easy of fix and importance of fix. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3987