It’s the same as when people on here are surprised by the number of users still on Reddit.

Most users don’t care, and it’s important to remember Lemmy is a fringe community of people who disproportionately do care about the platforms they use compared to the general population.

Not saying that’s wrong, but this place is a bit of an echo chamber.

I used to use it every day, have deleted the app off my phone, and haven't posted or interacted since a few weeks after the Musk acquisition.. But I've ended up clicking several links to tweets in the last 6 months. I wouldn't say I'm "on" it anymore, but I'm probably counted as an MAU most months, and I suspect there are a lot like me. If I'm right, those numbers are a fragile house of cards barely propped up by the network effect.

Monthly is a very generous statistic to use. A lot of people log in every few weeks out of curiosity. Daily active is down substantially.

It's still been a great resource for following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but that seems to be changing recently with some high profile accounts giving up and shutting down.

I asked my friend this, since he makes fun of Twitter despite being on there. His response was "I need to be on there to sell my books. Plus there are funny memes." When I mentioned Mastodon, he seemed vaguely interested but not enough to do anything about it.

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