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

  • regalia
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    699 months ago

    It always dies down after the initial hype. It seems pretty stable now. Compare it to pre-exodus and it is still like hundreds of times more popular then before.

      • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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        179 months ago

        This is one of the main things keeping a lot of us around I think. It’s not just repost bots of shit I’ve seen 5 times in a month.

        • regalia
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          189 months ago

          Yeah, still we lack variety because our algo doesn’t do a good job of promoting smaller communities. I’d like a lot more niche subs get more popular rather then our few dozen or so that have gotten big, which is still a good thing don’t get me wrong.

          • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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            69 months ago

            That I agree with, the other thing that kills me is multiple communities of the same topic just in different servers.

            • regalia
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              19 months ago

              No, the algo for active/hot favor large communties, so smaller ones tend not to show up on the front page. It should be tweaked so smaller ones pop up more often. Reddit solved that somehow, I don’t know what they changed though.

              • Strypey
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                @regalia
                > the algo for active/hot favor large communties, so smaller ones tend not to show up on the front page

                I presume it’s the same as what determines which posts appear on the front page of a Mastodon server; chronological order of posts. That would favour the larger communities, since people post there more often.

                The other limiting factor, I presume, is a Lemmy server only knows about the communities its accounts are members of. Larger communities will have members on more servers.

                • regalia
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                  19 months ago

                  Huh? Are you replying from Mastodon right now lol

        • @isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
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          79 months ago

          V true. I will say seeing the same post across 5 instances does make me feel like I’m going crazy sometimes so I guess it’s a tradeoff xD

      • @azimir@lemmy.ml
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        79 months ago

        I feel that you underestimate how stubborn I can be with low effort comments. I’ve been making off color, not particularly funny attempted witty comebacks on BBSes, the Internet, and then the World Wide Web for longer than… Oh, it’s been since the early 90’s now. Lemmy is the latest stomping grounds and I’m not giving up here just yet.

    • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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      119 months ago

      Been a little hard to get used to, but I’ve mostly transitioned over from reddit, like I went to it from Digg.

      Been using the Connect apk for my phone and everything seems pretty nice with it.