Ah yeah your name is familiar - i think i saw a postmortem post you made about it. Small fediverse

I agree except it feels like people are way more active here than on reddit, me personally I never commented but I comment all the time on here. Lemmy feels really active even without a ton of users (especially discussion threads)

[Pretending Fedidb/Fediobserver data or account #s accurately represents valuable conversations between real people when I just blocked 6 accounts by the same guy in the last 15 minutes for fun voice] Considering everyone is making a constant attempt to drive others away and be a pedantic freak, should this surprise anyone? The people who came here because they want more reddit, or to be admins of a subreddit, are not very good people, folks, they're not sending their best

Must not be that. I’m still here.

Reddit used fake accounts from the beginning.

If we want a real space it’s going to feel “dead” compared to that anyways.

So yea, I agree.

You have a point but maybe the gatekeeping is a good thing?

Average user doesn’t care about federation would translate to the average user doesn’t care about this community. Maybe?

It’s like how some old forums would charge for an account. Kept a certain low effort person from signing up. Sure it might turn people off but if you do enough work to understand how to get in then there’s a level of buying into it that might make you care more.

Just some thoughts.

The big answer to that is creating value on the site itself, no?

PieFed and Mbin are both different implementations of the ActivityPub Protocol just like Lemmy. Although I doubt this graph includes either of them, despite how many left Lemmy for Piefed when Lemm.ee went down.

I looked and PieFed adds another ~1600 monthly active users and Mbin a further ~700 to the mix. PieFed starts out its chart with single digit user counts and ends with three orders of magnitude growth, so definitely not flat at all, though stable over the last few months.

That always helps, but you can hardly advertise services like this outside of here.

That said, it is unfortunate that this only applies to very general spaces or some specific communities. If your interest is even a little too niche, the dedicated communities often feel like a graveyard unfortunately.

Does this include users of other platforms like Piefed?

Only from one comm.

True, but I think it's more due to it being .ml than that specific community tbh

I would love to have more diversity here, so I'm afraid I don't agree with that. ‍️

they most likely went back to the original platforms they came on, reddit, X,tiktok.

probably went back the mainstream ones like reddit, and the others, assuming you wernt banned in any of those platforms permananetly.

its probably due to self-censorship because subs, and reddit is ready to ban you at the moments notice for saying something they think its violating the rules(misconstruing) and not do actually violating by being vitrolitic, or bigotic. you have to be careful what you say on reddit.

it kinda shrank after lemmy.ee went down, because they moved scattered to piefed,,,etc. and also blocking people too.

depends on what and how you say it. people on reddit says, or suggest positive things but its more like insulting intelligence than offering advice.

i dont block news channels, just the POLITICS on worlds. it was problematic enough in my lemmy.ee account they misinterpeted my comments as being anti-semitic/not being pro-israel, when i was calling out seinfeld and his wife as as a israeli shill that was agitating protests in the campuses. plus i detect alot of tankies, tankies adjacent on that communities too. news i dont have problem with discuss similar issues. of course any stray users that are tankies i will block too, and then people that try to disguise thier comments as helpful but is actually be super condescending.