Fediverse

Being new to Mastodon and Lemmy I personally struggle to figure things out. Just finding a brief summary on how Lemmy works in contrast to reddit has, so far, yielded no helpful results. While I think for me this is just a matter of sticking with the services I can imagine that a lot of people would check in, struggle and check out again.

The, let's call it infrastructure, of Lemmy and the way registration works due to the fediverse is quite different to what most people are used to.

Lurkers not counting probably has something to do with that.

The number of users are just stabilising. This is expected after a sudden spike in users.

It's because Reddit is still alive and well and Lemmy just doesn't offer enough to be a serious alternative (yet)

@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

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.

Just like a whale, scraping off barnacles, for greater speed and efficiency

take my monthly comment