I don't think that initial peak was ever "real" anyway. I think it was due to people creating multiple accounts on different instances (or maybe even claiming multiple usernames on the same instance) before settling down with the one account they were actually going to consistently use.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's me. I signed up for and used beehaw for a month before switching to my current lemmy.ca. My old account would definitely be counted the same way as someone who signed up, got bored and left

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

I shortly used lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works before settling on lemmy.ca as well

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 8 points 8 months ago

There are definitely people that bounced off Lemmy for whatever reason. No idea how many though, I myself had 4 accounts on various instances before I settled on this one.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Definitely at least part of it was people who came to try it out and left (back to Reddit or wherever).

And your case too. I also did it. But we'd be 100% speculating if either of us guessed which was more common and how much.

[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Ehhhhhhhhhh.... Considering activity was on a slow decline Sept-Dec (not counting August->Sept due to i-think bot-spam issues in the count)

The numbers didn't really grow until the method to count active users was modified. We won't know the impacts of growth/decline for another 2-3 months at least.

[–] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's weird to act like people were being unreasonable for pointing out that Lemmy was on a decline when the numbers quite literally showed a decline.

And it's worth noting, no matter what the numbers say, the if users come here and it doesn't feel as active as the numbers suggest, that's still an issue.

[–] cosmic_slate@dmv.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

doesn’t feel as active as the numbers suggest, that’s still an issue.

worth noting to those people who will read this and go: "I should browse /All and post nonsense everywhere to boost activity!", please don't. A community with a bunch of uninformed discussion is just as dead as a community with no comments.

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't wanna do the 'ackshually' thing but it's a little confusing so, I think you meant whining?

[–] lugal@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks. I edited it because I sea it's confusing (different from the typo in this comment)