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I bet even the downvotes on this post are from bots
You're getting downvotes because you are insulting real people, and you didn't ask a question.
Why do you care so much about followers? You're not going to monetize your Lemmy account. If you stop posting, your community will see less activity as you discovered.
I looked at your profile and I have to assume the community you're talking about is the "Erotic Art" one. Personally the only time I visit NSFW communities on here is so that I can block them. Maybe enough of the regular user base browsing All did that and now you see a decline in traffic. Or, maybe there is some demand for it and you just need to keep posting consistently to see growth.
Either way I think you should delete this post and reflect on how you're behaving. It's ok to get frustrated, but taking it out on all of Lemmy isn't going to help.
Are you joking? Check my profile, I don't moderate any nsfw community
You moderate Cooking, but all your posts are to Erotic Art. I took a guess based on the information I see. My other points still stand.
Man seriously have you checked my posts? I moderate two communities, cooking and concept art and design and 98% of my posts are on the later! Are you blind or something?
When I look at your profile and go to posts section, I see one page, and all but the last few are to Erotic Art. Your profile only shows Cooking under the "Moderates" section.
Maybe whatever instance the Art and Design community is on is defederated from my instance (Lemmy.ca)? I'm not sure.
Whether I'm blind or not is none of your concern, and saying that isn't helping your cause.
You canβt see the other communities because no one from your instances subscribes. I also canβt see them.
No this is not what I see when I check my profile, which means things are even worse! as I said i also moderate concept art and design and almost all my posts are on this community
Bots are not nearly as widespread on Lemmy as they are on reddit. You're letting your frustration with a slow growing community turn into "old man yells at cloud."
The main use of bots is for federating. They join communities but don't interact with posts at all. Even that requires an instance admin to set up so it's not like there are thousands of them or something. Bedsides that the rest of them are mostly news and information shares.
Lemmy is much smaller than reddit and has more barriers to entry and community growth. Expect it to take months to get a community off the ground.
Ok, I accept that, by why the followers fluctuate up and down so much?! Explain that please
I can't say for certain but the fediverse is prone to behave unpredictability at times. You're probably better off thinking about Lemmy as a collection of websites rather than one central hub like reddit or more traditional sites.
Instances go up and down all the time as well. Sometimes when a site goes down for maintenance (and probably other things like sync issues) the subscriber numbers will fluctuate because a bunch of them are on a site that "doesn't exist" for a short time while it's being worked on.
Everything you do on Lemmy takes longer than what you're probably used to on a more traditional website too. Your posts to your local instance should be instantaneous but sometimes it can take minutes, hours, or even days for those actions to fully federate to other places. This is true of posts, replies, votes, and subscriptions.
There is also defederation which can cause the behavior you described. You are on one of the largest instances on Lemmy and some people have soured on it and its users. It's entirely possible some of your subscribers were on an instance that defedderated with lemmy.world or something.
TLDR: You are likely overthinking the impact of bots and putting too much importance on subscription numbers. Make sure the community you care about can actually reach the people who might be interested and hope for the best.
Only slightly related but maybe you'd be interested -
I put together a help post for new Lemmy users on my instance describing how to find and join new places on Lemmy. Maybe these resources will help you understand more about how Lemmy works and how you can get your community off the ground.
https://walledgarden.xyz/post/1600683
I downvoted (and reported) this because this isn't a question, which is what this community is for.
It's the truth no matter if you like it or not
But not a question. It's the truth no matter if you like it or not