Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users

CandyDumDub@lemm.ee to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 1221 points –

Similar to Mastodon's spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

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Also, this graph does not take into account kbin which is essentially the same kind of software as lemmy but tracked seperately. Better data can be found here: https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Also, instance hopping and users registering on multiple instances before picking only one/being active on only once may be an explanation.

Also worth noting is Lemmy only counts posts/comments as "active users". Lurkers who only read and up/downvote aren't counted.

That's interesting, I would expect people who vote to be accounted

Me as well. I only remember this because around July 1st there was a post about it, which lead to a wave of "doing my part by posting my daily comment to count as an active user"-comments.

wow, I lurk so much more than I post stuff.. one would think they would track this

I think this is the biggest factor. Most people only lurk. How many people signed up and only lurk?

In this case, I have a theory. I remember a month ago people were posting a lot on Reddit and the !reddit@lemmy.ml community was extremely active. It was like group therapy for refugees. But now the new reality is setting in and people are actually having real and meaningful conversations, which means more lurkers.

So it doesn't mean that active users are down per se, it's just that it's stabilised because people are mostly over Reddit.

Absolutely, and also keep in mind that many who were lurkers on Reddit and came over here maybe made one or two comments immediately saying something like "Happy to be on Lemmy!" and then went back to lurking here and haven't commented since. They would have counted as monthly active users for July, but not August.

I wonder if lurkers were counted in reddits active user data