Hey, I did the same thing recently! Set it up on my own server, and after a week, I’m starting to see new accounts being added to my explore feed. But there’s no user count.

It’s an annoying experience and I’m not fully sure how to resolve it yet, nor have I dung into it.

Yeah. I talk about the product directly.

Lemmy. Or Pixelfed. Or Mastodon.

I talk about the activitypub and decentralization.

I’m trying to remove Fediverse from the conversation because that’s the word that starts to make people confused.

Well to be fair, American companies did that too. They expand their services internationally “for free” and then get other countries hooked on it.

China is just taking a page from that playbook.