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Life is always preparing for the next cataclysm but fediverse is preparing for corporations hemorrhaging users. I keep looing at numbers and different sources show that there's a peak in MAU when Elon buys twitter, but then slowly falls over time. I'm curious if anyone has noticed a drop off, or if the peak had some crazy amount of posts and comments?

side note: I'm trying to help build up the fediverse streamer community get the people that want to watch streamer with people that want to watch streamer, but I have only noticed minor improvements. like streamers are connecting with other streamers, and one account has said that they got a boost. nothing to suggest that new members have joined from outside the fediverse streamer.

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[–] prototype_g2@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago

Lemmy and other fediverse platforms have, in general, trended towards an increase in users. Been here for a year and I can assure you I have noticed a slow increase in activity.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 9 hours ago

And this is my weekly reminder to work on a way to collect that data.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 14 points 12 hours ago

Rome wasn't built in a day. Be patient. We are going up not down

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 12 hours ago

Generally yes.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 16 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I have noticed a lot of new users. My small instance went from a little over 50 to 150 since the start of this year. Being added to join-lemmy probably helped with that. Circumstantial evidence, I know. But worth noting.

[–] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

And this is your only comment. Congrats on setting up an instance.

EDIT: Apparently my instance hasn't been completely federated yet and I can't see all the comments yet.

Thanks @TORFdot0 for the response.

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Oh, we've been around for 1,5 years. Just never been big enough to get on the join-lemmy.org page.

Thanks though!

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

This is the only comment your instance knows about because of the way federation works. I can see his comment history goes back 1.7 years

[–] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You might want to set up a federation account on your instance, and add it on https://lemmy-federate.com/ for easy federation

[–] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

That says my instance is not registered

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You can register it. It will send you a dm on lemmy to validate. No password needed

[–] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 7 hours ago

I got logged in with my admin account. Looks to be a waiting process. So wait I shall do. Thank you for the help!

[–] jason@engage.gogogoals.com 2 points 10 hours ago

Ok. Thank you. I'm going to see into that when I get home

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

I think being added to join-lemmy definitely helps but people that are already on Lemmy aren’t going to that site so it definitely shows that we are growing (or at least replacing people at a decent rate)

Sounds like you have a good instance, congrats on the growth

[–] NukedRat@lemmy.world 39 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (4 children)

I sin and still use reddit. Lately I've seen an increase of users there suggesting them to come here when unpopular changes are happening to reddit. Those comments are normally quite high up with a lot of discussion surrounding it so I assume it is attracting some of them to come here. When this place has enough content for my feed I'll eventually ditch reddit but in the meantime I'll still use both.

[–] Zenokh@lemmy.ml 25 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I got here from reddit yesterday , so it got me in.. still have a ton to learn aboyt lemmy but its nice and cozy and people are not karmafarming or being assholes for sake of engagement

Lemmy has a bit of a learning curve if u come from twatter or facebook , but for a redditor it feels like a nice summer home.

It definitely needs more content but thats why we can make more and do more i guess ? Post memes , have talks , do usual things arround here and more people will come , esp with "buy european" movement promoting lemmy over reddit

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 13 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I think we all need to learn to be okay with having less content. Makes the platform less addictive and makes us less prone to doom scrolling I think.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 3 points 8 hours ago

Yes and it's higher quality content, reddit us pages of pure shit

[–] Zenokh@lemmy.ml 9 points 15 hours ago

I agree with you in principle , but doomscrolling isnt just about having content but its a symptom of something else entirely imo (algorithmic content , people being addicted to slop etc) ... more content means more people at the end of the day , and more people means more interesting conversations , posts , interactions etc

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like I see a lot of fresh faces on Lemmy. It’s nice!

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 4 points 11 hours ago

I'm one of them heeeeyyyy

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Last weekend I used a scrubber to delete every post and comment from my 15 year old Reddit account, then deleted the account, so I've finally burned the boats on the move. Lemmy is perfectly fine as it is. It'll ebb and flow for users, but I've been happy for a year here now.

[–] Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Can I ask you what scrubber you used?

I'm perma banned from Reddit but can obviously still read what goes on and a funny thing has happened: since I can reply or react I've become less emotional in response and started going through users profiles and the amount of bots has become obvious.

It's a blessing in disguise. Reddit is actually Facebook of the more "left" of the internet now.

It's all imploding on us that lean left while the right seem to have no idea they're interacting with bots and shills

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

i actually believe lemmy should cross post to reddit, just so redditors can get exposure to lemmy. I got banned off of reddit years ago so I have little idea whats going on over there, i just see on lemmy that reddit has used ai based bots for moderating. I'm pretty much thinking of niche things to build up to help produce more content

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I disagree. I tried to cross post to the silos for 11 years https://jeena.net/notes/1 and I couldn't move anyone to an alternative platform. Cross posting only legitimizes the other platform and gives them free content to exploit.

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Idk how you exploit content. It's ussually the creators that get exploited. The idea is you put the content out there and put an impression on people so eventually they start thinking about them think about comming to Lemmy. I got nothing if you don't want to support x or twitter by crossposting from Lemmy.

I still say Lemmy/fediverse needs to build more niches community's up more than it needs to market so that way people stick around or engage more, so people don't drop off the platform from boredom

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 1 points 1 hour ago

And I'm saying after cross posting for years nobody cares and they are all happy to read your posts on Musks or Zuckerbergs platform surrounded by ads and making those billionaires even richer.

Those people will not switch as long as you put the content conveniently there, there is no incentive for them. And even once you stop they still will not move from there because it's just too convenient to not move.

I for one don't want to put more money into billionaires pockets, therefore I'm advocating against cross posting automatically.

[–] NukedRat@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

On my feed I don't see much that could be crossposted to reddit. Lemmy has it's own culture which probably clashes somewhat with reddit. The best thing imo is creating content within lemmy's quieter communities. I do now and then but I'm not a massive poster or commentor.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 16 points 21 hours ago (3 children)
[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

This website says:

Total Servers: 18,851
+19K since last month

So last month there -149 servers?

[–] admin@lemmy.haley.io 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

All of the numbers are rounded. Maybe this is the first month collecting data so everything is starting from 0?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 19 hours ago

IIRC they stopped collecting data briefly because it was affecting the sites they were checking. They must have fixed that since it's running again

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

that source says that the fediverse has more MAU then other sources on fediverse stats.

[–] Zenokh@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

What sources are you using ?

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Seems to be declining, no?

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Probably mastodon competing with bluesky as it seems most well known Twitter refugees are skeeting these days..

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yes! It seems it's growing by leaps and bounds.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Lemmy is hovering at 50k monthly active users.

[–] PixelPilgrim@lemmings.world 2 points 20 hours ago

hmmm ive been on fediverse for a few months so it seems stable with a fluctuations in activity