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.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3980