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There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

growth hasn't stopped, it was just overtaken by the drop in Lemmy users

Can you explain to me how this isn't a complete contradiction? How has growth not stopped while users have? That doesn't make any sense to me. Are we saying there's user growth or not?

That's why I pointed out on the fact user growth never stopped - Lemmy's still attracting new users, just people who weren't interested in lemmy in the first place decided to leave.

I'm trying to understand your viewpoint here, but I'm just not getting it. Overall users are in decline, that's not good. Sure, I have no doubt that we're still attracting new users but we're still losing users as well - more than we're attracting. We're at a net loss of users and that's not good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You said Lemmy can't attract new users at this point, I provided the evidence new people are this getting into the platform, it's just that statistics is overrided by people leaving us since reddit became usable yet again. It's one-time event though, just like reddit exodus was, so user growth will be positive again soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You said Lemmy can't attract new users at this point

Can you please point out / quote where I said this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

here:

but it clearly needs to go a lot further to start attracting users again.

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