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

  • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    831·
    1 year ago

    I see very few memes and far too much political content. Of that political content it’s all the same.

    That’s funny because the meme subs still far outpace posting from politics subs for me, and I mostly see memes.

    In fact, a few weeks ago, there were lots of complaints in meme comments of how the only thing they saw on the site was memes.

      • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        20·
        1 year ago

        So just like reddit 14 years ago when I first left Digg for greener pastures. When I joined, it was years before my local city subreddit sprang to life, and for years, it had around 1000 active accounts and only now has over 10k accounts.

        Man, if the people on reddit back in the day had sat around complaining about lack of content like this, the site would have died. Instead they started making fucking content.

        It takes time for communities to grow, and it feels like a lot of the folks who left reddit only ever knew reddit as a ready-made-community filled with thousands of people already. As in, they were latecomers and missed all the slow growth.

        • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          1 year ago

          Well, considering we are in a post about the userbase shrinking maybe the situation is not quite the same.

          I also don’t have that kind of time and energy to get a whole community running just for the kicks anymore, and I definitely do not appreciate to have the deficiencies of this place thrown on my face as if that’s my responsibility. It’s not exactly welcoming or motivating.

          • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
            9·
            1 year ago

            Well, considering we are in a post about the userbase shrinking maybe the situation is not quite the same.

            Reddit admins literally ran bot accounts to fill content on reddit and make it seem more active at first. The users who came from Digg had similar complaints, and reddit userbase fluctuated at lot in the first few years. It’s actually exactly the same (minus the admins using bots to make it seem more active).

            I also don’t have that kind of time and energy to get a whole community running just for the kicks anymore

            No one is asking you, specifically, to do it.

            • Malta Soron
              1·
              1 year ago

              Maybe we should ask spez to come over and help generate engagement :P

            • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
              32·
              1 year ago

              Eh, remains to be seen. The pacing of the internet today is very different.

              No one is asking you, specifically, to do it.

              Then don’t get on my case for not liking the lack of content, geez!

      • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        153·
        1 year ago

        I quite like beehaw and their communities, and yeah, you’re missing out on those if you’re on world, from what I understand. (Fairly sure they’re still defederated.)

        I personally like lemmy.ml, but I know it’s not for everyone, and the admins would prefer to keep it a smaller instance, I think. I’m only here because there weren’t as many federated servers three years ago when I made an account.

        You also might check out !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone, they flood my feed with good memes.

      • atocci@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        Kbin is a nice alternative. Content cycles out of Hot a lot faster on here.

        You also get microblogging support on here, so you have access to the Mastodon side of the fediverse as well without having to copy and paste links.

        • LoopingRiver@lemm.ee
          1·
          1 year ago

          Are there any decent iOS apps for kbin yet? I almost never browse these sites on desktop (hence why I have completely left Reddit since Apollo died).

          Currently using Memmy on iOS which is great.

          • jwr1@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            Kbin doesn’t have an api yet, so apps aren’t supported (there are some in the works though for when the api goes public). In the meantime, you can install the pwa through a browser.

    • TrustingZebra@lemmy.one
      3·
      1 year ago

      Even the memes are pretty stale, definitely not dank. Many of these memes are reposts of stuff I saw years ago on Reddit.