I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week ago (28 children)

When do you think Bluesky started?

It was announced in 2019 as an internal Twitter project, but it became its own thing in 2021-ish. Then they spent two years reinventing a bunch of things so that they could keep Twitter's original view - i.e, a system where they could delegate all the boring/liability heavy parts to users (identity, UGC) while keeping them in control of rent-seeking toll gates (the AppView).

The people behind it were several orders of magnitude more well known.

It takes more than money and a good contact network to build something that can attract people. Jack nowadays is pushing for Nostr, but as a product it is a lot less appealing to the masses compared to Bluesky.

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (27 children)

I mean Bluesky had 1 million registered users in September 2023, and 3 million in February 2024. It clearly had a higher base level footprint than Lemmy has ever had.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 1 week ago (26 children)

But why are you comparing Bluesky's numbers with Lemmy's. A more apt comparison would be against the whole Fediverse. We had ~2 million people in early 2023, and we've gone down since then.

We had ~2 million people in early 2023, and we've gone down since then

[–] barrygoldwater@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 week ago

That's a great chart. It's nice to definitive proof of what I "feel" has been happening.

I see more hateful attacks on here than I ever seen on Reddit. I like the idea of Lemmy, but Reddit seems to be more well-behaved than Lemmy.

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