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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[–] ademir@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 3 days ago

I think these things oscillates a lot.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I haven't seen activity declining, but I have seen good quality posts declining I have been seeing more low quality posts recently

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

Usually whenever I want to make a post, I think back to the comments I typically receive and think better of doing so, then don't.

I'm sure this is happening elsewhere too, e.g. on Reddit, though balanced by a much larger user base (and ofc bots doing a lot of the actual posting, and sometimes the commenting as well).

I probably should comment less often too:-). Really, touching grass and talking with people irl is much more fulfilling.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 6 points 2 days ago

I'm in the UK and I am seeing a decline across virtually everything tinternet related. Years of rising rpices, job security worries and just a shift in attitudes has made people far more wary and less time to post, interact etc. plus the modern fragmented web doesn't help

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Perhaps the closure of Lemm.ee took away some of the quantity and variety of posts and communities?

[–] Uri@infosec.pub 4 points 2 days ago

I feel the same

[–] 4Robato@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I don't know how to check for the whole lemmy but seems it's growing a bit but the MAU dropped a bit probably because of august: https://fedidb.com/servers/lemmy.world

But the fediverse in general doesn't grow too much except when a scandal happens.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

Watch out, the statistics might not say what you think they do.

"Total users" is a meaningless metric. All it showes is how many users aren't using lemmy anymore.

"Monthly active users" is the only meaningful metric, and it's fluctuating and currently going down.

"Activity growth" doesn't actually show the number of new activities per month, but the total count of activities. So with constant activity you'd expect linear "activity growth" and with growing activity you'd see the line curling upward. It is currently mostly linear but slightly declining.

So these statistics show a slow decline, not an increase.

But in a way you can be happy that it doesn't grow a lot. With the base architecture of ActivityPub (every instance contains a copy of everything, all content needs to be propagated to all instances, all content needs to be duplicate-moderated by all instances' admins) it is absolutely not designed to handle large amount of users.

If only a tenth of a percent of Reddit users were to switch over to Lemmy, everything would grind to a halt and most instances would have to close down because running them would become to expensive for a non-profit project.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 3 days ago

Naa, looks about the same. Im seeing more and more people step outside of lemmy though, this is nice. Theres a whole fediverse out there,go out and explore! And bring back cookies (and links)!

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 3 days ago

Could be your instance not federatinv with everything.

I blocked half of fedi as such as DNC whores over at lemmy wrld and shepooh cock riders on ml

Still get a decent trickle.

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