Link to the daily stats: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
By the way, welcome to everyone who joined thanks to Boost!
I think a big part of the problem is the sign up page, which is being worked on. Also, lemmy.world goes offline just about every day and is one of the larger instances so lots of new users go there and then have a bad experience. And it needs to be made easier for users to find out about all the third party clients available to browse Lemmy because the default client leaves much to be desired.
Most people won’t go out of their way to switch instances when lemmy.world goes offline enough to make them quit the fediverse, or try navigating around the base client and become upset at all the unnecessary button bloat and missing basic features like blocking an instance.
lemmy.world goes offline just about every day
Is it still the case now? I was under the impression the site was much more stable since a few weeks: https://lemmy-world.statuspage.io/
I haven’t noticed any outages recently. I’m pretty sure the situation has gotten better at this point.
Maybe. I switched to lemm.ee about a month ago
1 month ago means that account just fell out of the active monthly users list, and I’m sure you’re not the only one, so yeah those issues are likely part of the drop shown here
I’ve been on Lemmy for a while but just disliked the previous app options. Now with boost its becoming a daily thing to check in! Love boost
Glad to hear!
I had already stopped using Reddit, just waiting for boost to drop. The only content I find lacking is adult content. Memes, gaming, and news all have enough users here that even though it’s less than reddit I’m not missing out. Maybe it will get me to spend a little less time on my phone. But between this and Mastodon I’m happy to pioneer a new kind of social media.
Do you mean porn? There’s a whole instance; lemmyNSFW.
Unfortunately, I’m gay. I’ll see if they have anything I like.
I’m bi, and there’s a decent amount of content if you are into specific things. Definitely more F than M though, atm.
I’m doing my part 😉
Damn, no kidding! Cheers!
Damn, 40k monthly active users on lemmy? That’s much less than I expected. And the number’s dropping.
Well, at least for me, there’s no going back to reddit.
I wouldnt be surprised if much of the extremism on lemmy puts a lot of users off, tbh. Ive been seeing more and more remarks about it.
Extremism? I’ve found it to be much less extreme than says /r/europe or /r/conservative
What kind of extremism are you talking about?
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I’ve been following the stats closely. There were actually several times that the active users ticked down and then ticked up the next day, the most recent being September 19/20. But I suspect that may be a statistical artifact, whereas the increase on September 28 is legit. It looks like about 1000 new accounts were created/became active on that day.
User attrition has slowed significantly in September compared to August. We should stabilize somewhere in 30,000 range for MAUs before the end of the year, which is not too shabby. We are unlikely to see another big wave of growth until the code is significantly more mature, but the current userbase is fairly well established and self sufficient.
I can’t wait until we get that next wave so we can have more sports fans and humanities types, but you guys are alright for now 😅
It looks like about 1000 new accounts were created/became active on that day.
I remember @[email protected] mentioning similar numbers, so that’s probably this.
We should stabilize somewhere in 30,000 range for MAUs before the end of the year
That’s what I foresee as well.
so we can have more sports fans and humanities types
Discoverability of those communities is probably the first issue to fix. I tried to address it a while back, maybe I should do another one of those posts: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/2410183
the 30th also gained slightly over the 29th, from 38,867 up to 38,940
Nice, Boost was definitely mentioned in a lot of the applications I approved.
Hey, good to see you here!
I was wondering, would it be possible to have [email protected] as NSFW for the whole community again?
I get that a few posts might need to be tagged as such from time to time, but most of the content there is mostly SFW, and quite funny.
I personally had 4 active accounts in August, until I settled on one instance I like. Very likely many others did the same, so these numbers are far from perfect.
With all the political extremism and propaganda on here I’d be surprised if numbers stabilize any time soon.
You’ll never fully be able to escape crazies in a network built out of human beings. That said:
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It’s important to remember a lot of people in the Lemmy-verse are there because they were banned from Reddit for being too obnoxious.
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The next update will allow users to block entire instances which should help cut down on some of that
Also, moderation here is way more lenient than other platforms.
I believe part of what you may be seeing was a bug that was preventing moderation actions from federating properly. Fixed in 0.18.5
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I’ve been just blocking every political sub
Same. I get enough political slop everywhere else.
I’ve been blocking most as well, but I don’t like that solution because social media is the de facto modern town square. We need to have these conversations somehow.
