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There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] clearleaf@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Tankies and American democrats are scaring away the hoes. Source: I'm a hoe that has barely been coming here lately. There's not enough people here for niche communities to thrive, and the front page has been getting worse and worse. Today I saw this post on the front page, pretty close to the top.

https://lemmy.ca/post/3725038

I'd like to be clear that I don't care who americans voted for 7 years ago, but that's not why I don't think I should be seeing this. It's just, sheesh man. THIS is what the community wants and thinks is important in 2023? I'm trying to find a niche amongst THIS?

It's very similar to my problem with Gemini and every other "alt tech" platform I've tried to join. Worst case scenario it becomes a sewer for everyone who got banned from other sites for political extremism. Best case scenario, you end up with nothing but the demographic of upper class americans who do nothing but sit on their computers all day, which is not my scene either.

I'm starting to wonder if I should just leave the internet altogether.

[–] rar@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's true, the front page, as it stands, is awful. I have to filter out so many trump/elon crap and (for nsfw accounts) so many sexual fetishes I didn't even know it existed. "Active" and "Hot" are infested with (sorry guys) low effort memes, and I have to click for "top 6 hours" or "top 12 hours" for something that starts looking interesting. Yes, I know the big R and other social media have the same problem, but that's not the point.

Now, this is where the content "sorting algorithm" becomes a thing to "boost engagement"... but sure we can do better?

Personally, I would like to see more active posts from small communities or instances over most populous ones. Self-posts, even better. What if there was a user preference for frontpage sorting?

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm surprised so many people browse All, I only look at Subscribed

[–] gammasfor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I'm currently doing it mainly because I haven't worked out what I want to subscribe to yet.

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