Why not just count the two together? At 40k across lemmy + piefed, that's not bad.

I really wonder where they're going. I can't find any substitute for this little purgatory. Piefed? I'm not a fan of the UI. Masto? Twitter's a weird endless conversation space without proper organization and it makes me want to scream. Modern social media? We'd have vastly divergent desires if that's where they went.

People are just generally leaving the threadiverse because... Sorry everyone but its so bleak here.

The world is going to shit and there's nothing any of us can reasonably do about it.

I doubt there's a day that goes by that I don't think about how this place does not "fill my cup with joy".

At the same time I kind of can't look away because I do feel b that I'm better informed because I read about how shit everything is.

Worth noting, on FediDB, Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin is sitting at 54.8k MAU. Lemmy itself is at 46.4k. Though I don't know the historical situation there.

Looking at the PieFed graph, and all-time peak usage seems to be for last month, and the dip for this month could be explained by the month not being over yet (and even if not, it's not an indicator of decline).

For myself, I am spending less and less time online as the US midterms approach and I would not be surprised if others are doing the same. My time is better spent offline at the moment, but I haven't really left. Just taking more and more breaks for now.

You can't just count Lemmy active users. I switched from Lemmy to Piefed for example. So we need to count Lemmy+Piefed.

I checked just now and it's still the same slop as when I abandoned it.

• Eating disorder family dinner rage bait
• Office food stealing rage bait
• "Karen" screaming at a fast food joint employees (food theme today it seems)
• E-bike driving badly rage bait
• Would you take $5 million for a minor inconvenience
• Peter explain this simple but controversial joke I already understand but want to post as a question for more engagement
• Ex lover rage bait
• Thinly veiled normal activity misrepresented as creepy rage bait
• Family drama rage bait
• Petrol prices rant
• What's a job that seems x but is actually y

Feels like I haven't missed anything at all

2014-2015, when r/conservative was pushed to the front page on the regular despite r/conservative banning over half of all people that post in r/conservative?

Leaving Reddit wasn't easy. I read the tea leaves and left at apigate.

I had already eschewed Youtube API and was keeping Facebook out of arms length,

I poked around Bluesky for a while, it had a very strong pull.

I do not need machine-fed unlimited social media and news I don't thrive on it. Doomscrolling is not a good hobby.

Me too! And not a bot! Woohoo!

That’s already a massive problem that brings down instances all the time.

@the_fuckler

Not necessarily.

There is a count of *active* accounts (i.e. accounts that someone is actually using), so there's that.

But since nobody on the Fediverse knows who anybody is in real life (except for the few who use their real name), there's no way to know how many accounts are non-unique.

There could, for example, be one person who actively uses accounts on both Mastodon and Piefed.

@mesamunefire

No idea but you can check here from the official sources and pulls: https://fediverse.observer/history