Is the number of Lemmy users increasing?

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Is the number of Lemmy users increasing? - Lemmy.World

I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy. Now I’m taking a break from that (I feel a little guilty). I’m just curious. Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing?

From what I’ve seen, no - the number of people actually regularly on here is going down, as I’m just seeing the same people more and more. When I use voyager you can see when your personal upvote/downvote score for every user on every one of their posts, and I’m mostly seeing people with a != 0 score, meaning I’ve interacted with their comments before. Means I’m not frequently seeing new people.

People like me who came here to escape the reddit bullshit of authoritarian power hungry mods and admins, insane censorship of anything right of “far left”, and reinforcements of echo chambers through moderation, quickly found out that, if anything, Lemmy is already worse in some regards than reddit.

honest question because personally I’m not seeing it or maybe I’m just blinded to it but how is it worse? From what I’ve seen the moderation hasn’t been anywhere near as heavy handed as on Reddit with the exception of nuking bots. Maybe because I’m just blocking certain instances that I’m not seeing it.
I think they give away their real complaint when they mentioned “anything to the right of far left” as of reddit only allows far left views.
Have you not been on reddit in the last 5 years? It’s a highly censored, tightly controlled, far left echo chamber.
Reddit is anything but far left. Only a conservative would think that
What’s with all the “progressives” trying to convince everyone that reddit isn’t a far left echo chamber these days? Is it to try and change the well-deserved reputation of being a highly censored leftist shithole so people will take it seriously?
You’re a conservative.
And you’re a liar.