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I beg to differ as the amount of registered users is steadily increasing, the instance servers are much more stable and the third-party apps have added tons of features.
Also even that number of Lemmy users is an artifact of people leaving instances and creating new accounts across the Fediverse. I have 3 accounts myself that I check usually once a month, bc messages sent to my old one(s) won’t follow me so it’s the only way to make sure that someone trying to reach me can do so. And I had one on Kbin.social as well so there are now 4 OpenStars (3 looking to be active on a monthly basis) - and all of them are me!:-)
The better stat to use then is not Total Accounts but rather Monthly Active Users. In this, Lemmy has been steadily declining. We are now at <41.9k, after we held steady for awhile earlier this year at 45k. The peak after the Rexodus was ~52k - see https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/, the number of instances has gone way down, the number of accounts per instance gone up, it looks like people are abandoning single-user instances in favor of the larger multi-user ones. But Lemmy.World used to hold ~80% of all Lemmy users while now it is closer to like 37% iirc, so overall we are becoming more centralized on average, but also stabilizing into a few established instances, and decentralization at the peak is also happening as well - especially after yesterday’s announcement that will drive even more people, and entire communities, away from Lemmy.World further.
Overall engagement is up though - so more posts and comments from fewer people, those of us who remain here have become more active.
I beg to differ as the amount of registered users is steadily increasing, the instance servers are much more stable and the third-party apps have added tons of features.
You must be looking at different numbers than me because Lemmy has nowhere near the number of members as Reddit and it’s not even close.
Lemmy has 468k users while Reddit has 1.22b users. It’s catching up.
Reddit has 2,500x more users and Lemmy is “catching up”? Optimistic.
Glass Joe vs Mahamad Ali.
People will start to notice. Build it and they will come.
I’d also wager the proportion of human users is much higher on Lemmy.
Are you being sarcastic right now or do you think 468k users is anywhere near comparable to 1.22 billion users?
Also even that number of Lemmy users is an artifact of people leaving instances and creating new accounts across the Fediverse. I have 3 accounts myself that I check usually once a month, bc messages sent to my old one(s) won’t follow me so it’s the only way to make sure that someone trying to reach me can do so. And I had one on Kbin.social as well so there are now 4 OpenStars (3 looking to be active on a monthly basis) - and all of them are me!:-)
The better stat to use then is not Total Accounts but rather Monthly Active Users. In this, Lemmy has been steadily declining. We are now at <41.9k, after we held steady for awhile earlier this year at 45k. The peak after the Rexodus was ~52k - see https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/, the number of instances has gone way down, the number of accounts per instance gone up, it looks like people are abandoning single-user instances in favor of the larger multi-user ones. But Lemmy.World used to hold ~80% of all Lemmy users while now it is closer to like 37% iirc, so overall we are becoming more centralized on average, but also stabilizing into a few established instances, and decentralization at the peak is also happening as well - especially after yesterday’s announcement that will drive even more people, and entire communities, away from Lemmy.World further.
Overall engagement is up though - so more posts and comments from fewer people, those of us who remain here have become more active.
3 different accounts…all the same guy…
GUYS!!! I FOUND MICK FOLEY!!!
HOW DID YOU… ah, uh, I mean nuh-uh! 🤥
These things take time. Reddit wasn’t popular at first.
Ok but there’s no indication currently that Lemmy is ever going to overtake Reddit. Im fine with that though.
They all say that before it happens.