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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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[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The crucial difference is that those are differentiated by having a unique name, note a unique hostname. Which hard drive a community is stored should not be considered an important aspect of that community. It only specifies who is allowed to delete and edit content posted to that harddrive

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's like saying everyone that lives on 123 Main St is the same regardless of the city or everyone with the email "Bob" is the same regardless of what their email provider is.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy has nothing to do with email. I'm sick and tired of this incorrect analogy being used to explain how Lemmy works and people stubbornly not understanding why it's broken because of it.

If you think it through, what you're asking is that the communities will exist only on one server. That's Reddit with extra steps.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Goober, I am literally not asking that and yes this is very similar to email. My home instance is programming.dev. We are both still talking. I did not have to make an account on lemmy.ml to respond to you here. I did not even have to go to lemmy.ml to see or respond to this post. This community does not "exist only on one server" by any means.