The worst of the trolls seem to get bored and move on.

Most of the posts here have good intentions and the admins are trying to keep things good

Messy, the peaks are from when Reddit did stupid shit or when bots where rampant, there's no one taking out ads, app stores aren't promoting us, this is all organic traffic. I think we're pretty healthy honestly. There's still a little flux, some churn right at the top as people who need those niche communities still flirt with reddit.

I tried to stand up a couple of channels for games I was playing, most of my contributions were met with nothing or downvotes and no reasons so I just changed servers and let them go.

Meaningfully no

that line to the left would just sit there near 0 and squiggle

Depends on your guidelines for competitors. Just discussion, discord, x, bluesky, Facebook, Mastodon, many suck it up and go back to Reddit.

Yeaaahhh, tankies are a pretty big issue on Lemmy, sadly... They don't seem to understand they're the equivalent of a dumbass redneck screeching about what ever false 'fact' they heard on Fox News, but from a supposed left framing...

Part of the reason I blocked news, too. Not only do I not want to doomscroll, but I don't want to get in an argument over how the news isn't so bad actually and Russia/China/Mao totally already have a solution we just need to implement or some such shit. (ok bad generic, but it's hard to generalize their flavor of fake enlightenment. lol)

Almost as bad as the libertarians that think deregulating capitalism is the perfect solution to every problem.

I sold all of my ethereum when it was $150

Do we? Why do we need the niche communities?

Reddit didn't start with them either. Neither did Digg.

Well, no, the site doesn't /need/ them as such but 100% it's a major issue for people coming over. Their hobbies are represented on Reddit. But not on here.

Back in my day, we kept StickPage.com alive with a community of maybe 100 animators. We were happy and productive. Quality over quantity. Chin up!

What we're saying is that spikes in growth are not the 'best' thing and sometimes they fall off.

Having some people that stay regardless is what we want, even if it looks like a decline. These things come in waves.

The worst thing about fedi though is there's not enough safe places or mod tools for keeping marginalised folks safe, there's still a heavy culture of bigotry, people not wanting to examine their own biases etc. That's a big reason why folks leave.

I'm decently satisfied with my experience here. Be careful what you wish for

Maybe they're looking at !unitedkingdom@lemmy.ml, !unitedkingdom@europe.pub or !unitedkingdom@lemmy.world. Still weird given the UK is one of better served countries on here.

Ah yes, 2023 the year lemmy went to shit.

Maybe they're confused about the greentext communities.

Piefed has around 1.6k monthly active users and mbin has 718 monthly active users. Lemmy lost 8k monthly active users since april.

I think Piefed has mostly been migrations from Lemmy (especially from lemm.ee), that's why it had a big jump and then seems to have stabilised.

I recently joined Lemmy, i can't share your experiences with a "decline" but i gotta say Lemmy works because it's quality over quantity.
Recognizing usernames again makes you realize you're in a small community and people generally have similar interests and passions to you.
I (mostly) try to put more thought into what i post here. The change I wanna see in online communities starts with me.
15 Upvotes and a well thought out comment on a post feels more rewarding than a lot of Karma and people trying to 1-up each other with snappy remarks. Also: no bots ️

PieFed is also advertised often over in Reddit, like in r/RedditAlternatives.

I honestly found that one funny, and I don't mind the funny comments either.

Still I get what you are saying about the problems.

It is funny indeed, but after a while I felt exhausted after reading the same repetitive threads over and over