Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source
It's because Reddit is still alive and well and Lemmy just doesn't offer enough to be a serious alternative (yet)
this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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Being new to Mastodon and Lemmy I personally struggle to figure things out. Just finding a brief summary on how Lemmy works in contrast to reddit has, so far, yielded no helpful results. While I think for me this is just a matter of sticking with the services I can imagine that a lot of people would check in, struggle and check out again.
The, let's call it infrastructure, of Lemmy and the way registration works due to the fediverse is quite different to what most people are used to.
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Not surprising that the initial hype from the Reddit meltdown is wearing off, the question is how much momentum can be retained and how to attract users organically.
Because every post is just Lemmy users jerking themselves off raving about how much cooler they are than Reddit.
It's so fucking cringe I I can't scroll more than 5 minutes without giving up.
This comment is so ironic seeing as how I didn't see a comment like you are saying besides yours. Come on. We're all here together. Get over yourself.
Bruh all you've contributed so far are a couple snarky comments yourself. You're not really in a position to be criticizing what others are posting. It's a new site, you gotta grow the communities you want to see. If that's not something you want to be part of then check back in a few months. You don't like the programming, get up and change the channel.
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@LambLeeg I swear we have this this at least a copule or few months of someone getting anxious there's a sight dip of active user on the Fediverse and eventually it goes up again.
I woudn't worry too much about the graph and just try to vibe here instead.. 🤷♂️
Still a massive increase compared to a few months ago.
I feel like it's one small community instead of an interconnected larger one, unfortunately.
What are people saying to be calm for? Nobody way raising alarm
I couldn't figure out how to log on here with my other Fediverse creds. Rather than, like, Google or something? I just created new accounts for each instance. I'd say it's a boon for anonymity, but I used the same username, soooo
You dont login you accses this via you home instance
As of right now you can't access the "front page" of each instance, so that would be a valid reason to retain several accounts (among many other perfectly valid reasons).
How you go to different servers is just by subscribing or following a link to a community hosted on another server. So !Canada@lemmy.ca is hosted on lemmy.ca instead of lemmy.world, but if you follow it on a web browser you might notice it takes you to https://lemmy.world/c/canada@lemmy.ca
this way you haven't "left" lemmy.world, lemmy.ca has no access to your credentials but you can make a post or comment there which is shared with lemmy.ca who posts it for everyone who connects to lemmy.ca to see.
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Number of active users slightly dips after exponential growth, surely the platform is dying, lets run around in circles and scream that the sky is falling.
Why don't we, instead, sacrifice u/spez to the gods, so they have mercy of us?
I'm doing my part!