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Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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I joined during the first Reddit exodus, and it seemed like for ages the amount of Lemmy content was generally increasing (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but overall increasing). Now it seems that when I sort by New, I get through everything since my last visit much more quickly than I used to. Is that my imagination, or is the activity declining?

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[–] [S] 52 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Thank you, I had been looking for actual data and couldn't find it. You're right, does not seem to be declining.

I wonder if there an increasing percentage of bot posts, since I have prolific bot accounts blocked.

I wonder what's up with that number of servers decline.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    I wonder what’s up with that number of servers decline.

    Consolidation? Which is fine to that extent.

    I'd wager many experimented with hosting a younger Lemmy, and hosts who couldn't sustain it got shaken out over time.

    I wouldn't assume the rise in posts/comments is all bots, either. I don't have anyone blocked, and it doesn't feel overrun to me.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Some of it had to do with there not being enough admins to go around afaik. Lemm.ee for instance couldn’t find enough admins so they shut down. Moderating an instance seems like one of the hurdles that go along with running an instance. I could imagine some people dipped out of Lemmy for a little while if their server was deleted since they’re starting from scratch again. It took me a good month or so to make this account and ramp back up my own activity here for instance.

    The admins across the servers do a good job of keeping bots out imo. If it ever becomes a problem the admins could look to adopt BlueSky’s moderation tools down the line, I feel. As BlueSky makes it easy to filter bots, misinformation spreaders, and have user level content controls.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Total Lemmy Active Users by Month

    There's a big spike during summer time. On reddit it was known as summer reddit. Basically all of the kids are out of school and have nothing better to do but shitpost online. Now they're going back to school. It could be the lack of different users you're noticing. Not sure why it dipped in July though, should have dipped in August.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Wasn't July 1st when lemm.ee shut down?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ah, good point. Forgot about that. That's probably it.

    The slight dip so far this month could be the beginning of the end of the summer Lemmy. Schools just started this week near me, and green is 30 day users so it should take 30 days for that to fully drop.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble @AFKBRBChocolate Is this users on a lemmy instance or users on any type of activitypub server engaging with lemmy communities? ive stopped using my lemmy account because I just subscribed to those communities from my friendica account

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Also keep an eye on: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/stats A couple thousand people (and several communities) moved there after lemm.ee died, but we interact with lemmy.

    As for why it subjectively seems to be declining... maybe you know what you're gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts? Maybe it's time to be more of a poster!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    As for why it subjectively seems to be declining… maybe you know what you’re gonna see in New, and so you engage less with posts?

    I don't think so. For ages (maybe two years) I'll sometimes sit in bed in the morning and browse New until I hit the stuff I saw previously. That used to take me well over an hour - maybe two - but now it takes less than thirty minutes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I feel like the corporate American need for exponential growth and for endless feeds of mindless scrollable content is, maybe, not what people are crying out for on the fediverse.

    There are so, so many other platforms offering both. They got shit, because exponential growth and endless scrolling feeds only ever lead that way.

    I'm happy with one little corner of the internet that doesn't always need to pump up its numbers month on month, year on year, and where I can scroll for a bit then get bored and go back to the real world.

    In fact, I seem to recall an awful lot of people saying that's the only way to engage with the www and stay sane. Or at least, have a fighting chance.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oh, I'm with you, and I don't need or want the endless growth thing. I was on Reddit a long time, and saw the good and bad of the huge user base.

    But it's kind of like when you have a favorite neighborhood restaurant: you don't want it to get so successful that it's always crowded and you can't get a table, but you also want it to do well enough that it stays in business. If the Lemmy use base declines too much, there won't be a reason for people to come here and we'll lose our little corner of the Internet.

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