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[–] Blaze@feddit.org 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Monthly active users have plateaued at 44k for a while now: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yet, comments per day seems to be going up! And I helped!

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not really good a thing.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago
[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

User count seems to be going up according to fedidb. At least in the number of federated users.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It the number of active users stays the same, that could just mean that

  • people are changing instances
  • some instances shut down
  • some farmbots were open
[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.

So while total users go up, the global federation is staying around the same. There's quite a few servers that don't want to be connected to everyone else.

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.

Or admins are just finding it not worth bothering with administering their own server and turning them off.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not seeing that trend. There are people who don't want to federate. But they usually choose different software. Like Flarum or Discourse instead of Lemmy. And I think the statistics pages pull the user numbers directly from the instances(?) so a more defederated instance might show up in the statistics anyways.