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There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by 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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[–] 127 points 3 years ago (15 children)

The cope is strong. Let’s not pretend fewer active users is a good thing. It just means people are unhappy and are leaving.

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  • [–] 47 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If the stats are accurate then this is not necessarily due to people being unhappy and leaving as both comments and posts are still stable - indicating that the lower active count are lurkers, duplicates or otherwise non engaging accounts.

    https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

    That said, you can come up with statistics to prove anything! Forfty percent of all people know that.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago*

    duplicates or otherwise non engaging accounts.

    Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if duplicate accounts are a part of this but that seems like it would be a natural part of growing pains for lemmy. The way the fediverse is built would suggest that people who are serious about long-term participation may bounce around a bit. For example, I joined in June but in that time I still managed to test out two other instances before settling on a third that seemed to strike the ideal balance between admin policies and reliable uptime to suit my needs.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago

    Right. Everything negative about Lemmy is being turned into a positive for some reason. Truth is this is still a difficult concept for a lot of people to get on board with and the overall reliability of instances leaves much to be desired. All we need to do is continue to contribute and see what takes off.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    But just remember: Some of those people that are not staying are the types of people you wouldn't want to interact with anyway. If the roughly 10k people who quit were Nazis (for example), it's a good thing.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    But they obviously aren't all Nazis

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hmm... I think we need to conduct some exit interviews to gather data before we start making any assumptions.

    "Hello, you have selected 'Delete Account' is this because you are a Nazi?"

    Y/N (circle one)

    "You have selected 'no' and yet you still wish to delete your account? Why are you lying about not being a Nazi then?"

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    About as useful as the 'have you ever or are you planning to participate in a genocide' tickbox on immigration forms.

    Although there's a troubling part of me that worries that Nazism has been normalised enough that people would willingly say yes.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, I tend to think that most of the people who left wouldn’t be valuable members of the community anyway. Maybe they’re too impatient to deal with software that isn’t fully mature, maybe they can’t deal with the fact that most Lemmy instances are somewhere between leftish and outright communism, or maybe the somewhat chaotic nature of the fediverse turns them off. Whatever. I hope they find something that suits them.

    I also hope, for their own sake, that the “something” doesn’t involve going back to reddit.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    As I said in a comment below, I would like this to be a signal for interest groups to choose one of the dozens communities they have, stick to one and make it grow.

    Looking at gaming or books, always seems detrimental to have the . world, .ml, .sh.itjust.works and so on with the same content posted everywhere.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Almost like there should be one central hub… that’s what Reddit did right

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