Comment on Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

• Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world is inactive, we spent a while promoting the !wholesome@reddthat.com to decentralize from LW.

  Same for !upliftingnews@lemmy.world and !goodnewseveryone@piefed.social .

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People seem to still be posting to them though? Like Lady Butterfly made 6 posts to the latter one just today alone. And much of that content does not look to be reposted anywhere else, like this post in the former community:

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    You might want to shut those old ones down then if people are not supposed to be using them anymore?

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    • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      !wholesome@reddthat.com is the active community, it’s !lemmybewholesome@lemmy.world that’s inactive

      About your last question, every time we suggest to lock down communities people come and start arguing that locking communities makes us like Reddit

      https://piefed.zip/post/507615#post_replies

      I’ve dealt with enough of those discussions in the past, I don’t want to deal with that kind of drama again.

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      • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Excellent points. Perhaps Lady Butterfly might want to help redirect traffic from the old to the new. Like the note in the sidebar helps greatly for discovery, though some content did not look to me like it was cross-posted and instead submitted exclusively to the old communities, so at first glance it does look like it’s remaining alive. But fair point that it doesn’t need to be “promoted":-).

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