I joined during the first Reddit exodus, and it seemed like for ages the amount of Lemmy content was generally increasing (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but overall increasing). Now it seems that when I sort by New, I get through everything since my last visit much more quickly than I used to. Is that my imagination, or is the activity declining?
I honestly think that the whole internet is in decline.
frongt@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats
Total posts by month appears fairly linear.
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Thank you, I had been looking for actual data and couldn’t find it. You’re right, does not seem to be declining.
I wonder if there an increasing percentage of bot posts, since I have prolific bot accounts blocked.
I wonder what’s up with that number of servers decline.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
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There’s a big spike during summer time. On reddit it was known as summer reddit. Basically all of the kids are out of school and have nothing better to do but shitpost online. Now they’re going back to school. It could be the lack of different users you’re noticing. Not sure why it dipped in July though, should have dipped in August.
Sergio@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
Also keep an eye on: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats A couple thousand people (and several communities) moved there after lemm.ee died, but we interact with lemmy.
As for why it subjectively seems to be declining... maybe you know what you're gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts? Maybe it's time to be more of a poster!
jackalope@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I would call that flat, not linear. Linear implies a non exponential increase. This looks flat.
khannie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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frongt@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
I specifically said linear and not flat because it is a non-exponential increase.
You could say the rate of posts is flat, but the data series is posts, not rate of posts.
TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, OP. Ten million posts a month isn’t good enough for you?!?
Blaze@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
It’s not 10 millions created during a month, it’s 10 millions existing posts at a certain month, whatever their creation date.
The actual number of posts per month would be the different between the total number of posts between two months.
Aeao@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Ten million and one would be better
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The last graph is total posts across Lemmy, so its only about 300,000 posts a month, although notably, about 250,000 of those are on a bot server no one is federated with.
Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 5 weeks ago
If i'm not mistaken, the very last graph showing posts by month shows a significant decreasing over the summer, or at least specifically july (since august is not over yet). It says June is around 12M posts and July around 9M. August seems already over 9M and we're only 2/3 in, so maybe there was some drop around July for some reason, which could explain OP's feeling.
As for the reason, i'm not sure, maybe a combination of factors like some server blocking access from UK with the latest privacy bullshit, some server having signficant downtime (i think slrpnk.net had a problem with servers locking themselves up while tech admin was abroad), and maybe non-Lemmy factors like holidays (though they don't seem to impact previous years stats).
PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Looking at the more detailed breakdowns, it looks like there are a couple of servers (Lemmit.online, alien.top among others) with huge numbers of posts/comments that appear to be entirely bots. Are those counted in the stats? Could those be messing with the overall graphs?
gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
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