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There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren't attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we'll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can tell you the drop in active Lemmy users was NOT from hexbear and lemmy.grad. Those trolls are worse than the_donald was on the other platform.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest problem here for now it's the fediverse search engine. It's hard to find c/ but I think this is a matter of time

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I believe the lack of apps (that offer 100% of what Lemmy on browser has) is also playing its part. Many people will return or be more tempted to come here when apps will come out. Some are ready with a million more well on the way.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Let the servers keep crashing, tell everyone to add new instances to help with performance, which puts 1500 rows into the database tables that used to have 50 rows and invokes a massive federation 1-vote-1-https overhead... causing more crashing... all the while ignoring the SQL design of machine-generated ORM statements and counting logic hidden in the background triggers.

... keep users off your sever as a method of scaling by crashing. It's one of the more interesting experiences I've had this year! And I spent all of February and March with the release of GPT-4... which was also interesting!