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Honestly I already believe that this has happened.

My reason for thinking this is because of this:

The spike that happened on October 2023 after the initial spike that happened due to the Reddit protests seems unnatural to me.

Someone gave the explanation of the release of the mobile clients but even then I wouldn't think it would lead to a spike equivalent to the initial one since it would mostly just be people using an account they already had instead of creating a new one.

Like honestly if someone knows what event happened then that made so many new users join I'd appreciate it.

I didn't get into Lemmy until there was a mobile client available, Sync to be specific. I believe it since a lot of Reddit users were basically mobile only. So, for a few months I basically subsisted on YouTube alone.

I feel your pain. I also tried Instagram to satiate the mobile scrolling, but the comments there are just horrible and low-effort. The fediverse via Sync is okay, but there's still much to be desired.

Is your issue with Sync or with the current state of the fediverse?

The current state of the fediverse. Sync is great!

Sync came out in August tho, I used Connect in the meantime lol

Sync is only one of many clients. And when it came out wasn't the point of my post. But if no big clients came out in October then they couldn't have been a factor at all.

That is sorta my point, I don't know how much mobile app releases factored in to the spike back up in October. It probably did have some effect though

Newer user here... the api stuff got me to delete my reddit account but still surf it, it was the day of the IPO that i created my lemmy account...

Welcome! Let us know if you have any question.

Welcome new person, best start brushing up on beans and jeans if you want to survive.

Is that just accounts in total or active accounts?

I didn’t comment much in the beginning.

Now I try to comment at least once a day.

accounts in total.

Wait, then how would it go down? Are people deleting their accounts that much?