Based on what I've seen, much of this could be from instances with redundant accounts shutting down.

In other words, a lot of folks can't sustain the burden of hosting an instance long term. That's fine, and expected.

Redundant accounts wouldn't count as active accounts, so if an account was dormant for a year prior to lemm.ee shutting down, it wouldn't register as an "active user" on a monthly check just because lemm.ee was still active.

This doesn't seem to be hoping for unlimited growth but rather that is has stagnated and is even falling. That can kill a community especially when it is as small as it is

Sure.

You'd probably end up seeing very few posts, though. Rather than filtering the timeline it might work best as a "notify me when posts with these keywords appear" function.

Well depends on the keywords. If one was to make a feed for Trump it would come up a lot. But the idea would be you could combine multiple keywords, so you might have a dozen or so.

Small communities can be nice but also it can get stuffy. And it can have some interesting consequences. Someone started freaking out about me stalking them because I replied to two (or three?) of their comments. I don't think they knew how small of a place this is lol

I checked mine. I just got banned on .ml. Huh.

I don't think a community large enough to support lots of niche ones is possible without enshittification taking over.

Normalize labeling all axes.

Well it's just that politics/news are the two main things that most people can talk about. So that's what trends. Many other topics have general interest barriers that naturally have lower ceiling of interests from the roughly 40k active users.

• point people to one instance you like instead of a general website
• on Piefed, when people register, they can either join indeed the instance they're on, or have a look at other options: https://piefed.zip/auth/instance_chooser

Tell your friends about fediverse if you haven't done it yet.

And if you still have accounts on other non-fediverse platform consider to post something about the fediverse.

No, its the fact that the same couple of people post across all communitys and drown everything else. I wouldn't be opposed to a daily limit of posts, just to bring the noise down. The only reason i still come here is for the rare, once a week, quality post.

Everyone who compares growth here (here being very relative considering how it works) vs. the idealized Reddit is forgetting something. Age. You don't get peak Reddit by looking at its first years, and yet you're looking at the literal first years for Lemmy and company and saying it's not comparable. No, it's not.

Doesn't mean there shouldn't be constant discussion on improving and growing communities for better discussion, but the whole "oh no, the numbers are low" is ridiculous. Aside from being a aggregated discussion format, this is like comparing apples and cars. Reddit shouldn't be a goal or benchmark, discussion flow here should be. I'll be more worried about stagnation when feed numbers for myself drop back to the first few months, where there was concern about if federation would even work well. (and improving federation/defederation is also a great topic to talk about, it isn't perfect, but it's far better than it was)

@MattW03@lemmy.ca @fedimemes@feddit.uk

To which extent does this graph consider non-Lemmy users interacting with other non-Lemmy users through Lemmy communities as "active Lemmy users"?

I mean, I'm right now interacting with Lemmy using Sharkey. Similarly, I notice many Mastodon and Piefed users interacting with Lemmy communities. And that's where my question comes in: would all of us count as "Lemmy users" according to the methodology behind that graph?

That's not logistically possible given each instance has its own rules.

But also, at the same time it seems self-evident to me that most of the 40k people here can talk about politics. Most are from the Anglosphere and the daily goings-on are relevant to them in some way. It seems also evident to me that less people here can talk about fishing, or baking because it's of less interest to them. Reddit, by comparison, has a much larger population.

I'm also looking at /all/ and seeing a variety of names.

Just FYI, the number may be up a bit more than we are seeing due to how the website pulls its numbers.

There's a lot of instances that put anti ai/ crawling tech in front of their instances. As well as instances that are no longer sharing stats due to ai activity.

And piefed/mbin/kbin ect...

Stamets, byteonbikes, mtz, lady butterfly, track_shovel.

When you start seeing it, you can't unsee it.

Yeah I see them. I also see some other names too. Small places need active 'power posters'.