Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

• squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This here is a better source: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000

  That’s all of the fediverse over the last 1000 days.

  Most important takeaways:

  • Active users tend to only grow during special events (usually “Reddit pulls some new shit”) and then declines slowly as people fade back out.
  • When instances close, users tend to just disappear (as when Lemmy.ee closed down). The Lemmy.ee users seem to have just disappeared instead of migrated to another instance.
  • Number of active servers is in a strict decline. Apart from the initial rush, smaller instances seem to go down and don’t get replaced. Most users seem to prefer to use big instances.
  • Comments again shows the total number of comments available, not new comments coming in. As you can see, the angle of the curve gets slightly flatter over time, meaning that activity drops. It also shows well that when instances get closed down lots of content just disappears.
  • Posts also shows a similar decline, though even stronger than comments.

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  • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When instances close, users tend to just disappear (as when Lemmy.ee closed down). The Lemmy.ee users seem to have just disappeared instead of migrated to another instance.

    I suggest you look at the piefed activity indicator for more context here.

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that makes sense. Though still Lemmy.ee’s closure is a drop of ~4500 monthly active users while piefed only totals ~1700 monthly active users in total.

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      • Skavau@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh yes, it has some impact - but the slow decline of Lemmy instance activity has to be contextualised with whats going on Piefed (and to a lesser extent: Mbin)

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