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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

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[–] squidzorz@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

I'm getting pretty tired of the obvious "Big tech company bad, Twitter dead, Linux good" bias that Lemmy seems to have. It's definitely decreased my usage over the last week or two. I guess it kind of comes with the territory given Lemmy is a more complicated platform that will naturally attract more tech-oriented users, but it's still getting super old seeing the same flavor posts every single day.

[–] sheogorath@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The biggest issue for me is the stale posts keep showing on my feed. Either the posts are too old, or it's too new with low engagement. I think the sweet spot for me is when a post is in its 1/3 of its lifecycle. Already got a discussion going but not too far that I can't engage meaningfully.

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 9 points 1 year ago

I find sorting by 'Top' either 6 hours or 12 hours helps me see new posts I've not seen that have decent engagement

[–] Myro@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's annoying as well is that if you browse Everything, there's bots reposting stuff from reddit at the same time, so posts from certain communities are all clumped together.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Just block those bots lol

[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

This is exactly my issue with Lemmy in all honesty.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Big tech company bad, Twitter dead, Linux good”

Add Firefox in there and yes I've seen this everywhere. So many posts about browser news or the web that just devolves into a circlejerk about how great Firefox is.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get it with the others, but given what Google is currently trying to do with Chrome and the open web, I think the Firefox evangelism is the least sinful of these by far. Or maybe I just became part of the problem.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not inherently bad, I don't even disagree with it. It's just that (A) we all get it, enough already and (B) the open web is about letting people use whichever browser they want, so it's kinda paradoxical that we all say we should all be using the same browser

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not even that these evangelizers think we should all be using the same browser. It's that there are currently only two realistic choices: Chrome (and it's derivatives) and Firefox (and it's derivatives). There is safari too, of course, but it hardly compares to either in it's current state.

Given those two choices, only one of them is in support of the open web. The other is literally trying to add DRM to the web.

As to your first point: I agree that here it may be preaching to the choir and that we all get it. But it has such a small marketshare, I'm not sure it is good for those encouraging it to be quitened.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

There is safari too, of course, but it hardly compares to either in it’s current state

Curious to hear you elaborate on this. It's the #2 browser by marketshare and Apple, while slower in the past, seems to be hearing developer feedback and catching up to what we're asking.

[–] Sunforged@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Post more my dude. Start the conversations you want to see.

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago

I browse social media to find new ideas that I can't think of.

[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it's like screaming into the void sometimes. You just hope more people somehow discover the community. A lot of my interesting communities are pretty much dead now, so I just subbed to a bunch of porn and get on here once a day to look at boobs.

[–] Rhabuko@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I agree. The FOSS movement is its own subculture that can be pretty preachy and annoying for outside people.

[–] pexavc@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Opinions definitely feel stronger on lemmy, with a sense of judgement roaming around. But, for what it is worth, I found it lead to some actual discussions that I rarely find on other sites.

[–] gammasfor@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Also let's not forget the Hexbear "Russia is good actually" posts.

[–] uglyduckling81@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago

Don't forget the hardcore left wing echo chamber... Oh wait that was Reddit as well.