It would be more useful to see metrics weighted per active user it's trivial to update a server if it's just for yourself, and likewise it's easy to let it lag a few versions behind.

What's more relevant is the version number the large instances are running

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

You can filter https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy by monthly active users.

lemmy.ml, hexbear and Lemmy dbzer0 are the only ones in the top 10 to run 0.19.8
discuss.tchncs.de, lemmy.zip and sopuli.xyz, infosec.pub are in the top 20 and run 0.19.8 as well

Note: 0.19.6 and 0.19.7 had an issue with pictures thumbnails, which is why quite a few instances kept running 0.19.5

The elephant in the room is obviously LW which hosts around a third of the monthly active users but still run 0.19.3

A month ago someone asked about this on [email protected], for people interested: https://lemmy.world/post/22173840

Edit: added hexbear, discuss.tchncs.de and infosec.pub which just updated

[–] MrKaplan 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

we'll try to get the post out the coming week, at this time we're roughly looking at updating late January.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Thanks for jumping in!

[–] Alphane_Moon 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Total MAUs are so low. You really need solid double digit YoY growth (20-30% YoY) to have a strong trajectory in the medium term.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Monthly active users have plateaued at 44k for a while now: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yet, comments per day seems to be going up! And I helped!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Have a cookie!

[–] Alphane_Moon 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's not really good a thing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Obviously not

[–] mesamunefire 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

User count seems to be going up according to fedidb. At least in the number of federated users.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It the number of active users stays the same, that could just mean that

people are changing instances
some instances shut down
some farmbots were open

[–] mesamunefire 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.

So while total users go up, the global federation is staying around the same. There's quite a few servers that don't want to be connected to everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I'm not seeing that trend. There are people who don't want to federate. But they usually choose different software. Like Flarum or Discourse instead of Lemmy. And I think the statistics pages pull the user numbers directly from the instances(?) so a more defederated instance might show up in the statistics anyways.

[–] GamingChairModel 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.

Or admins are just finding it not worth bothering with administering their own server and turning them off.

[–] mesamunefire 1 points 2 days ago

True.