Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users

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Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users - lemm.ee

Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source [https://the-federation.info/platform/73]

I feel like that is more or less to be expected. A ton of people found Lemmy during the reddit protests. Now that the protests are gone and Lemmy has had its growing pains some users are leaving, going back to reddit or other places. If we keep using it and making content users will grow organically.

Lemmy is having an identity crisis of sorts. It was built to be decentralized yet we (users) seem to want to centralize everything and we all go to a few of the largest instances.

You also don’t have the content of Reddit. It doesn’t take too long to scroll through all top six hours and get to the single digits of upvotes.

Kinda cozy though, if you pay attention you kinda see who’s active.

Like you, only user on my instance who has more comments than me.

How do you think I got so much karma on Reddit?

If Lemmy gets significantly larger we gotta figure out how to make our own CC

Right now private communities aren’t really possible.

There are a lot of parts of Lemmy that are rough around the edges or aren’t there at all. Hopefully it improves over time, especially as new front end apps can free developers to focus on the back end, but we’ll see.