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It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren't attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we'll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

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[–] SeborrheicDermatitis@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very good point-a way of connecting communities on Reddit that seems fairly innocuous but is actually a massive means of the "transmission" of users between communities, allowing users to find communities they like quicker and thus making them more likely to stay.

Very good point that I didn't think of tbh.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

"multireddit" are nice to have but they do not address this problem Which a common view for all user of an entire community across the fediverse. "Multireddit" require client to pick and choose individual communities. This means less than 1% of users will every use it. This means there will never exist a fediverse wide community around topics.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Propagation and agglomeration is a problem for clients not servers. Server only need to propagate a "we have new stuff" message and it's up to the clients to pull it and cache it. In any case, users should be able to click /c/books and see the content of all /book/ on all instances in a single location. Unless most users can do this with one click, there will not exist a fediverse wide community.

[–] 7heo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)