Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source
Lurkers not counting probably has something to do with that.
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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The number of users are just stabilising. This is expected after a sudden spike in users.
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It's because Reddit is still alive and well and Lemmy just doesn't offer enough to be a serious alternative (yet)
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@LambLeeg I swear we have this this at least a copule or few months of someone getting anxious there's a sight dip of active user on the Fediverse and eventually it goes up again.
I woudn't worry too much about the graph and just try to vibe here instead.. 🤷♂️
Still a massive increase compared to a few months ago.
A platform can always be improved, always. Lemmy is alpha software now and the growing problems we had in the beginning may have annoyed some users.
I think the most important thing is to keep making improvements to attract new users. I'm already finding the content infinitely better than it was a month ago.
I feel like it's one small community instead of an interconnected larger one, unfortunately.
I couldn't figure out how to log on here with my other Fediverse creds. Rather than, like, Google or something? I just created new accounts for each instance. I'd say it's a boon for anonymity, but I used the same username, soooo
You dont login you accses this via you home instance
As of right now you can't access the "front page" of each instance, so that would be a valid reason to retain several accounts (among many other perfectly valid reasons).
How you go to different servers is just by subscribing or following a link to a community hosted on another server. So [email protected] is hosted on lemmy.ca instead of lemmy.world, but if you follow it on a web browser you might notice it takes you to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
this way you haven't "left" lemmy.world, lemmy.ca has no access to your credentials but you can make a post or comment there which is shared with lemmy.ca who posts it for everyone who connects to lemmy.ca to see.
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Number of active users slightly dips after exponential growth, surely the platform is dying, lets run around in circles and scream that the sky is falling.
Why don't we, instead, sacrifice u/spez to the gods, so they have mercy of us?
take my monthly comment
Just like a whale, scraping off barnacles, for greater speed and efficiency