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In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.

My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.

Now I'm taking a break. I won't post anything or I'll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content 😒?)

But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.

However... I'm just curious.

Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?

Edit: I will still post stuff. I'll just post a lot less!

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[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Appearently the algorithm of Reddit has become shit this last days

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[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 37 points 2 days ago

This ain't a sprint. This is a marathon

I don't know if Lemmy is the future but ActivityPub social media is.

It is only matter of time.

I no longer feed my shit post on corpo socials. This is an aspect of the class war. Don't feed your enemy.

[–] mnhs1@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I was worried at first that Lemmy would be basically dead compared to Reddit. But holy hell, its active enough and its qualitatively better than Reddit could ever be. I never realized how shit it was until I actually decided to leave permanently.

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[–] LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Nice one for posting so much! I'm a prolific poster as well but you've got me beat. It's a lot of work but I love to see people happily chatting here. I've no clue if it's quieter atm overall, but don't know that lemmy will fail. There's enough of us atm, and not many alternatives.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

~~Nobody is recording long-term stats yet AFAIK~~, so you have to find a workaround. It seems the rest of Lemmy is growing relative to Hexbear, at least.

Edit: Nevermind, there are sites being linked here. It looks like by MAU it's more or less holding steady. Which maybe means Hexbear is dying from toxicity and infighting?

[–] Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I believe it’s is slowly going down over time. But this is going at such a slow rate that reddit enshitification might lead more people to here in the future before there is no more great content on here.

But thank you for making such a great effort. You deserve a break (:

reddit resorted to using more shadowban purges instead of sitewide bans to slow the number of people leaving the site, SB people often dont realized they been banned at least for a while.(i wonder if they realized thier sitewide purges is doing mroe damage to them then they admit, thats why shadowbans replaced the blatant purges.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 12 points 2 days ago (16 children)

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.

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Why do you care? What’s your goal? 5300 posts in 2 months is beyond the realm of mortals.

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