So since the mass-exodus from Reddit we can see that the total amount of active users has gone down rather heavily: https://i.imgur.com/MeQok2F.png

This can seem a bit sad at a first glance. Where are we heading? But one has to remember that back during the summer many of us created several accounts to settle at an instance, there were also problems with spam-bots of various kinds.

So active users in itself is actually not that interesting. At least not the comparison with the peak. Instead we can watch the total amount of posts, how is that looking?

Well it’s steadily going up actually: https://i.imgur.com/i3Vse7Y.png

Though the increase has gone down slightly. This number however is influenced by other parameters as well. There are several reposts bots and such that mass-post to different instances. But it’s definitley a good tell it’s not going down.

Another interesting factor is comments: https://imgur.com/hWT8xvF

The amount of comments per month has gone down, but not by all that much. A 10% decrease from the top or so. What’s interesting here is that the decline has plateaued, which could indicate that the userbase has settled and become somewhat consistent. This is great news.

All in all, it seems like Lemmy has settled into a rather comfortable spot, with a decent amount of users, posts and comments. That is very slightly decreasing. Ideally we’d like to see this trend reverse, and perhaps that might happen naturally with due time when things have settled even more. For Lemmy I’d reckon the growth will look a bit like this. Whenever Reddit does something horrific (and it will happen more), we’ll see a mass-exodus with more users over here. Then it’ll decrease for a bit, settle and hopefully we can rinse and repeat. Anyway - that’s some irrelevant thoughts from me on the subject.

Just wanted to post these rather good statistics!

  • Caminsky@lemmy.world
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    Because the site goes down too often. I get it, not the developers fault. But it will take off only if there is more reliable.

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      1 year ago

      Did you see the early days, or even as reddit was “maturing”? Shit went down every other day

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        1 year ago

        Even a few months ago you could barely access this place. Post errors, comment errors, login errors… multiple times a day.

        I haven’t had an issue with the app I use or accessing the instance in maybe a month. I get on daily now too.

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      1 year ago

      Are you talking about Lemmy World? Because that has noticeably improved over the last few months.

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      Which site? Choose another instance if yours is unreliable. That’s the advantage of a federated system. Or just have a second account at another instance.