Fediverse

No surprise. After a surge of reactionary, or curiosity, based signups, some will inevitably loose interest. In particular, the 'bottom 10%' of users, who weren't/wouldn't contribute anything of substance anyway, or possibly were annoyed by some feature or another that was different than Reddit. I similarly don't care that more people haven't moved from Reddit to Lemmy, as the majority who haven't would likely make the place worse. When everyone can interact with something with even the most meager barriers to entry removed, the quality always declines.

Imagine being in a room with 50k people and tell me you wont have someone to have a conversation with.

IDK Lemmy.world is at 132k users now, it was way below 100k when I started 3 months ago, and has been steadily climbing since.

There are servers that allow new users, but have no real users, just massive amounts of bots.

You can look here: (warning very slow server)

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Try to sort the servers by Total users, Lemmy.world is on top, but the next 7 try to look at the row of numbers, you will see servers with many "total users" have almost zero activity posts and comments, compared to the number of claimed Total users.

I'm guessing those users are all fake. Why people generate fake users IDK, but there is clearly attempts to sabotage the Lemmy network.

Trying to penetrate the noise, and figure out more real numbers, I'm sure Lemmy remains quite healthy and is growing in real numbers, if you filter servers that are actively and properly maintained.

May the next iteration of the internet include more people journeying to smaller communities that fit them, and less scooping everyone up and exposing them to as much outrage as possible to addict them.

Ideally all social media use goes to near zero

Less is more

I made accounts on like 10 Lemmy & Mastodon instances because I was confused about federation. I would comment using native accounts but now I mostly just use my main.

When I first joined, I hopped around instances and tried out a bunch. But eventually I settled on this one and I haven’t logged in to any other account in a while. I probably count as like 5 inactive users. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot of that.

Posts are going up pretty steady, that matters more.

A couple of accounts I made have been made redundant. Chances are if you went with LemmyWorld as your starting point and got sick of all the downtime you probably did too, leaving behind a handful of obsolete accounts.

Doesn't account for all, just some.

I mean is it really a bad thing? Not to be elitest but I think we are pretty good with niches.

People come to platforms like these for content. Post content you'd like to see yourself, and people will come

Engagement and creation of worthwhile content. Memes are fine, but it's junk food. The more meaty content that creates engagement and discussion, the better.

Controversy also creates discussion, but drives out quality.

Post news from quality sources, educational content, breaking stories, and ESPECIALLY good, fun, discussion and content around hobbies.

i mean aside from the obvious fact that things don't have to have infinite growth -- what stops me from using more is the bugginess and weirdness of the interface. you still can't hide individual posts, which was huge for me on reddit, and would be on here especially since things are slower. [there are apps that can hide posts, but only on those apps, they don't carry over to desktop]

I can't even register for lemmy.world.

I'm liking how fast things load though.

Needs more content. Personally I'd like video hosting (i know thats a big ask). And some way to make instances less confusing for newcomers.

Less abrasive tankies telling people they deserve to die/be killed.

That's about it, actually.

Corporate has seen those graphs and asked me to turn up the enshittification dial.

Content ofc, but also I'm on Kbin, and the software here is atrocious. 100% of the time after like a minute goes by while I read a post and read the comments and then want to upvote/boost or write a comment, it asks me to re-login on a mobile Firefox. Also, if I comment on something and someone responds, but then a moderator removes the entire post on another instance, it breaks my entire Notifications - not just that singular one, but the entire process of receiving notifications for anything I say (the good news is that it only breaks the one page that it occurs on, so if I make enough other comments it will eventually fall behind the curve, but that's still a whole page of notifications that I will never be able to see, ever). Also there is no API at all. Also... well, you get the idea.

At this point, I would move to Lemmy except... account migration is a lie. I already asked people to follow me from Reddit to Kbin, and I'm not doing that again.

You will be baked, and then there will be cake.

Originally I signed up with vlemmy.net, but after like only a week, their server shut down. So I had to sign back up in lemmy.world

I can only imagine that as this service is fairly new, many users are experiencing similar things. Also, I can only imagine that a number of new users testing out the fediverse created throwaway accounts.

I think it basically all adds up to Lemmy and the fediverse in general gradually balancing itself out.

Maybe fix some structural issues? Apparently Beehaw is looking to shut down and or completely defederate. There are complaints that serious issues are being ignored by devs.

If fixes were on a roadmap, I think that would help.

I don't know much of anything about the backend, but if a whole community is considering leaving, it may be time to reassess priorities and goals.