Comment on Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025
OpenStars@piefed.social 1 day agoPeople 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:
You might want to shut those old ones down then if people are not supposed to be using them anymore?
Blaze@piefed.zip 17 hours 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.
OpenStars@piefed.social 11 hours 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":-).