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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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[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The turning point will be when companies/websites start spinning up their own Lemmy instances as their official one to replace their forums, which I think will happen.

I don't know if this is going to happen, and to be honest I hope it doesn't. Lemmy is not designed to be a forum and shouldn't try to be used as a replacement for one.

[–] communist@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is Lemmy not a forum?

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is a link aggregator. Yes it can serve a lot of (if not all) the functions of a forum but it's not designed to be a drop-in replacement for something like Discuss or phpBB. It's different enough that I feel like calling it a forum is not the right term.

[–] communist@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What exactly does it do worse than one of those?

[–] aka_oscar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Id say finding the latest comment is harder here. Sure, its not that hard when looking post replies. But comment replies? They can be nested, pretty much buried behind the "See more replies" button.

[–] communist@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2043

here's an issue tracker for that, I don't think it's really something that fundamentally makes it worse than a forum, honestly.

[–] aka_oscar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh i wouldnt say its worse at all. I prefer nested replies all the way. Regardless, i still wouldnt say lemmy fits the forum format, again due to the way you access the most recent replies.

In a forum thread, you go to the last page and youve found the latest comment. In a Lemmy post, even if the nested comments arent hidden, its not obvious at first glance which one is the latest comment.

Also, if you "bookmark" a forum thread, youll get notified of any new replies in said thread. On Lemmy, you can check the latest comments from an entire instance or community. But not for a specific post.

Again, id never phrase lemmys format as worse, for i greatly prefer it. But i wouldnt consider it a forum. It simply displays the information diferently