I only know about the subs I mod.
A popular one with a couple million subscribers is seeing way less posts and less traffic.
A smaller niche sub that I mod is still quite active with no signs of stopping.
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From a user perspective that's my experience, too
The bigger subs are easily migrated to Lemmy with enough users to produce regular content. The smaller communities here are extremely deserted as the smaller userbase of Lemmy seems to hit those the hardest - also the federated nature making it harder for users to connect groups with similar topics together and select one as the main one
One possible exception to that, at least so far, seems to be r/nfl. It’s a behemoth on Reddit, but it seems like few made the jump to the fediverse, sadly.
Fan base probably is fairly right wing anyway.
Far less than you'd imagine, and it certainly wasn't modded that way.
Figures. Escaping the omnipresent obsession with sports is almost as impossible as escaping the grim specter of politics. Impressive considering how objectively irrelevant it is compared to said politics.
im just surprised that i claimed the name c/leftism, now i contorlthe largest leftist space on lemmy.world
I don't think there's going to be a good way to know. Semrush is showing a relatively steady decline since January 2023, but I don't trust third-party tools for that. And I doubt that Reddit would make its first-party analytic data public if it looks bad, so in that case the default move is to either cherrypick or create a metric that appears favorable, a la Elon Musk's brand new Twitter metric of median picoseconds of verified user screen time per albatross fart or whatever.
From a qualitative standpoint, both the content and general vibe seem markedly worse than a month or two ago. It's made it easy to stop using it as my default online platform.
But in any case, I don't think it's worth it to get too invested in either its success or failure.
I'm no help here, just commenting so I can, also, find out. From: a new Lemmy devotee.
Try similarweb.com
I have no official measurements but when I stop in occasionally, I notice it's much more responsive than it used to be :)
There's a sub I'm in that has half the comments in the daily Open Thread compared to last year.
For what it's worth, my usage has really dropped.
I think it depends a lot on the sub, some of the niche communities with fewer subs just don't give a crap about reddit politics. And honestly, if you're just a casual web user with adblock checking in every couple of days, why should you
/r/anime seems to be holding for now. It's really difficult when the bulk of "content" a lot of people are interested in are weekly mass discussions and shitposting.
I sometimes go there to see the drama and share Bluesky invites.
I noticed some unusual and small subreddits in /r/all a couple of times and some once extremely popular subs like /r/awww and /r/funny seem to lost a lot of engagement.
So I guess it's decreasing.
Can I get a bluesky invite?
Yeah no joke, I've been registered for like a year with no invite lol
Decline of quality and quantity of traffic in niche subs over several years is very obvious. As to /r/all I never cared about that. Perhaps advertisers and prospective shareholders do.