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We are now at 48,859 monthly active users vs 51,172 a month ago, decline seems slow but steady. Anything we can do about it? (reddthat.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Blaze@reddthat.com to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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[–] liam070@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago (15 children)

There is also a problem with feddit.de for a couple of months now, one of the bigger instances on the fediverse. People are leaving, some are opening accounts on other servers. That didn't help at all...

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 5 months ago (14 children)

They posted today on !dach@feddit.de that they were organizing to retake this.

I wish them good luck, and I hope they succeeded. Feddit.UK was also there a few months ago, hopefully people like @Emperor@feddit.uk took over

[–] liam070@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

It's a flaw in the fediverse concept. Federation is great, but if you have a big server run by a freelance admin who decides to take some time off without notifying anyone people will search for a more reliable solution. Or just go back to reddit.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Otoh, if one server is having issues, it's pretty trivial to swap to another. Whereas if reddit is down, it's down. No getting around that. If Lemmy.today is down, I can just swap to another server without issue (except being treated as a sus person just because my account says it's new).

[–] liam070@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Except the communities created on that instances all suffer. There were some popular ommunities on feddit.de that are now wastelands.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How are communities affected by such outages? Do they stop federating, but people can still see what other people from their own instance post?

[–] liam070@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can't upload pictures and the web interface stopped working weeks ago. You can only make text posts via apps. Why would anyone make a post on that instance?

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 1 points 5 months ago

Can't you also post from other instances? I see new posts on !europe@feddit.de all the time

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@lemmy.today 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you can at least post text, you can at least tell people where to migrate to. Doesn't seem like that big of an issue, but not being able to migrate all of the post history (AFAIK) is unfortunate (hopefully something is done to fix that shortcoming).

I can see at least one feddit.de community via web browser, so do you meant just the feddit.de web interface stopped working, but people on other instances still can see it? Or is it broken in ways other than simply being able to see the posts?

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

I can see at least one feddit.de community via web browser

Are you viewing it from your instance or feddit.de? I can see all the feddit.de communities I subscribed to on sh.itjust.works, but I can't see the main site at all.

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