The gain is really next to nothing in the 2 months shown in this graph. It goes from ~1,456,000 to 1,468,000.... which is a 00.8% increase, less than 1%.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep we’re gaining 1’000 new accounts every couple days, maybe every week. Which is pretty cool given we have an average of 40’000 active users. But nothing compared to the total of 1.5 million accounts. The vast vast vast majority of which are dead. Made one year ago to check out lemmy and never came back.

[–] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's also lots of people who made an account in multiple instances before realizing that you don't have to do that

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Or people like me who keep on switching instances because they want to find the perfect one that blocks everything they don’t like and federates with everything they like.

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can't users just block entire instances themselves now? So the trick would be to join one that broadly follows your interests and cut down as required.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Blocking instances doesn’t block their users. Only defederation does that.

[–] egonallanon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Ah fair didn't realise that. I assumed it would.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Microcosm of online dating behavior spotted

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Already got a wife so now I’m looking for the perfect instance I guess 😂

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 1 month ago

Get that unicorn!

[–] Lets_Eat_Grandma@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People make throwaways all the time for services like this. I expect lemmy to be no different.

Monthly active users would be a better statistic to track imo. That gives you a real idea as to how big the community is.

Anecdotally, content wise does seem better than a few months ago. Unfortunately lots of it seems to be highly polarizing and hateful stuff when you look at all communities. Othering seems to be as strong as ever, if not stronger. Probably because hate groups can just setup their own instances or take over parts of existing ones without much blowback like they would get on other sites.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I don’t feel like it feels much larger. But at the same time my blocklist has added 30+ accounts in the last couple of months.