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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I wonder what’s up with that number of servers decline.

Consolidation? Which is fine to that extent.

I’d wager many experimented with hosting a younger Lemmy, and people who couldn’t sustain it got shaken out over time.

I wouldn’t assume the rise in posts/comments is all bots, either. I don’t have anyone blocked, and it doesn’t feel overrun to me.

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AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, it would figure that if the activity is flat but the number of servers is declining that it’s either consolidation or that people are abandoning very small instances.

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- brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  And activity is rising as far as I can tell, look at the graphs at the bottom.
  
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frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Some of it had to do with there not being admins to go around afaik. Lemm.ee for instance couldn’t find enough admins so they shut down. Moderating an instance seems like one of the hurdles that go along with running an instance. I could imagine some people dipped out of Lemmy for a little while if their server was deleted since they’re starting from scratch again. It took me a good month or so to make this account and ramp back up my own activity here for instance.

The admins across the servers do a good job of keeping bots out imo. If it ever becomes a problem the admins could look to adopt BlueSky’s moderation tools down the line, I feel. As BlueSky makes it easy to filter bots, misinformation spreaders, and have user level content controls.

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