You are right, that is quite a dramatic drop and rise.

People preparing xmas gifts and planning for holidays?

Agreed, but I must admit I haven’t dug deeper so I have no clue.

IIRC lemmy.ml is the showcase server for lemmy software as a whole, so the organizations and individual donors who fund lemmy development also fund lemmy.ml

They mention the bigger donors here

Might be pulling this out of my ass, but I recall that one of the platinum donors gets their money to fund open-source software from EU.

I also use lemmy (voyager app is awesome) but kbin also has an awesome app called Artemis, which got inspired by apollo for reddit.

Didn’t know about this project, thanks for the tip!

Loved Kbin, but yeah the slow development made me come back to lemmy as well.

Thanks for telling me about Voyager, I feel like I finally found the app for me!

This comment, I felt a call to it, like I need to comment: now by two active users.