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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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[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if you are saying the sky isn't blue, why not? A drop in users is a bad thing. Lemmy needs people and it needs content. This smells of the "good for bitcoin" meme all over again.

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

I edited because it seems it was too controversial, but anyway.

I commented saying that this should probably be a signal for people to start focusing on a few core communities instead of spreading like crazy.

It seemed that people were thinking that users would magically come to every community and make them active, but we are seeing the opposite. Which for me was a good thing because it would make people realize platform growth doesn't happen magically.

[–] Rambi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I think people have what happened to Digg in their minds and think there'll just be one single huge Exodus and Lemmy will explode over night, but that's unlikely. We just have to keep trucking and overtime reddit inc will make more and more stupid decisions and each time Lemmy and the dedicated will grow a but larger. Not to mention Twitter is imploding even faster, maybe we'll gain users from there.

Having a small community in the meantime isn't so bad anyway, there's less low effort comments and you can recognise people sometimes which is cool. There's positives and negatives to both small and large communities.

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I commented saying that this should probably be a signal for people to start focusing on a few core communities instead of spreading like crazy.

I mean this place only really seems to have activity in meme pages, porn, and news.

Feels more like a well behaved 4chan instead of a well behaved reddit.

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

There is !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl to discover new ones.

But I mostly agree, you have to look up for content outside of those 3.

I tried to revive !personalfinance@lemmy.ml , !casualconversation@lemmy.world and !moviesandtv@lemmy.film, but that's harder than planned

[–] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah I've been using the lemmy explorer and most places are just one person posting into the void with no additional interaction.