I'm not sure exactly how the Fediverse Observer calculates the day-to-day totals, but my speculation for the dips in the graph is:
These dips in the graph confused people in my previous post, as the dips were suggesting that the graph represents 'new posts by day.' I edited the title in the screenshot this time to clarify it is total by day.
The dips in the graph could be caused by some of the servers/instances going offline, post deletions, or a combination of both.
Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers.
Lemmy reached a new milestone yesterday: 1 million posts in a single day (across 1,323 servers).
The 90-9-1 principle may also be relevant here: 90% are lurkers, 9% are contributors, and 1% are creators.
I don't think that SimilarWeb includes app traffic in their estimates; they seem to focus on web traffic only. App traffic would be interesting to track, though.
SimilarWeb has just released traffic estimates for June. According to these estimates, Reddit's traffic has seen a 3.36% month-over-month decrease.
For comparison, here's how traffic has changed for other popular social networking websites:
Source: https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#overview
Apollo for Lemmy would be great. I’d definitely pay money for it. For now, I’m trying wefwef. I love it so far.
Well, this is a screenshot that I've edited slightly. I'm unsure whether I can claim copyright on this image. However, if the Fediverse Observer doesn't object, I would be glad to release it into the public domain (CC0).