You look a bit skinny, son.
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There is a slow decline though. I don't want exponential growth, but growth is important imo at this stage
The big answer to that is creating value on the site itself, no?
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People have started using Piefed insted of Lemmy, but I'm not sure we should throw away hope for the fediverse because of that.
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.
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The big answer to that is creating value on the site itself, no?
That always helps, but you can hardly advertise services like this outside of here.
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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)
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.
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Does this include users of other platforms like Piefed?
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I checked mine. I just got banned on .ml. Huh.
Only from one comm.
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Only from one comm.
True, but I think it's more due to it being .ml than that specific community tbh
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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.
I would love to have more diversity here, so I'm afraid I don't agree with that.
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This is actually pretty good user retention. Most platforms bleed way more users after a surge in sign ups (eg Mastodon, Pixelfed, Threads, Bluesky).
they most likely went back to the original platforms they came on, reddit, X,tiktok.
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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
probably went back the mainstream ones like reddit, and the others, assuming you wernt banned in any of those platforms permananetly.
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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)
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.
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Anecdotally, it doesn't feel like the experience is contracting, or part of a shrinking community. It's worth asking what the data means, and whether it's bad, but there are definitely other reasonable factors too. Users from interoperable platforms like mastodon and piefed, individual people using fewer accounts, or even fewer lurkers, could be responsible for a good chunk of the data.
it kinda shrank after lemmy.ee went down, because they moved scattered to piefed,,,etc. and also blocking people too.
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People attack me constantly on Lemmy if I suggest to look at the positive a little more.
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.
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I blocked all the news channels, location channels (since they're 90% news anyways), and a few extra that kept getting bad news related comments or trollish crap, and the top feeds are usually pretty good. They don't change too much over a day, but at least it no longer feels like doomscrolling.
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.
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Quality over quantity.
Haven't had to deal with a single power hungry mod since I've been here.
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Should aggregate number of Lemmy and Piefed users (and maybe Mbin, NodeBB too), and see if the graph looks very different then
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Haven't had to deal with a single power hungry mod since I've been here.
Have you blocked .ml?
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Yeah. And we don't need to attract the MOST people, just the BEST people
I might be in the minority but I'm entirely comfortable with moderate explosive growth, it hasn't hurt bluesky one bit. Especially since explosive growth here implies reddit is dying.
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feels like there was a missed opportunity there
Could be fedd.it was already taken
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I might be in the minority but I'm entirely comfortable with moderate explosive growth, it hasn't hurt bluesky one bit. Especially since explosive growth here implies reddit is dying.
Personally I'd prefer to avoid reddit-ification, it had become very bad in the last few years
