Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.

The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Up through Lemmy version 0.18.5, “active” meant posting or commenting within a specified timeframe (past month, past year, etc.). Starting with version 0.19.0 voting also counts as being active.

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.id
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      10 months ago

      Starting with version 0.19.0 voting also counts as being active.

      aka, the lurkers 👀

      I’ve always upvoted both posts that are on topic to the community and always to people who take the time out of their day to reply.

      It’s like common courtesy to me and votes are like free confetti anyways.

      So I suppose the OP’s figures are, off.

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      10 months ago

      Interesting. It’s not really relevant to this graph because it only shows one instance but I’d be curious to see what percentage of Lemmy’s total active users are people with multiple accounts on different instances

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        10 months ago

        I suspect abandoned alt accounts are a huge reason for the long, slow decline in user numbers. These graphs should be titled “active accounts,” not “active users.”