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There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren't attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we'll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

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[–] regalia@literature.cafe 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It always dies down after the initial hype. It seems pretty stable now. Compare it to pre-exodus and it is still like hundreds of times more popular then before.

[–] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It honestly feels nice because the activity feels human and not just spammy low-effort comments 0:

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is one of the main things keeping a lot of us around I think. It's not just repost bots of shit I've seen 5 times in a month.

[–] regalia@literature.cafe 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah, still we lack variety because our algo doesn't do a good job of promoting smaller communities. I'd like a lot more niche subs get more popular rather then our few dozen or so that have gotten big, which is still a good thing don't get me wrong.

[–] m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Lucia@eviltoast.org 6 points 1 year ago

!trendingcommunities@feddit.nl

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That I agree with, the other thing that kills me is multiple communities of the same topic just in different servers.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Same here, I think I'll open a thread about that in the coming days

[–] isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

V true. I will say seeing the same post across 5 instances does make me feel like I'm going crazy sometimes so I guess it's a tradeoff xD

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I feel that you underestimate how stubborn I can be with low effort comments. I've been making off color, not particularly funny attempted witty comebacks on BBSes, the Internet, and then the World Wide Web for longer than... Oh, it's been since the early 90's now. Lemmy is the latest stomping grounds and I'm not giving up here just yet.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Been a little hard to get used to, but I've mostly transitioned over from reddit, like I went to it from Digg.

Been using the Connect apk for my phone and everything seems pretty nice with it.