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Fediverse still going strong and stabilizing (media.piefed.social)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Fediverse seems like its stabilizing: https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=1000

(and these are the servers that allow the crawler from the observer, so its highly likely the numbers are much larger).

We are seeing:

Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!

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[–] admin@lemmyusa.com 27 points 1 day ago (6 children)

For the last two years there's been periods where I'd use Lemmy religiously for a month and then not touch it for three. Lemm.ee shutting down killed a lot of my motivation and excitement, but I'm back on the rollercoaster.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

for me it's mostly when i get flooded by comments from extremist nutbags. at least on lemmy they arne't reporting me to get me banned site-wide. they mostly just send me links via messaging to 'educate' me. which is annoying but not pathetic.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

The bullet points, right? I think that guy is botting. It's a shame that instance-level bans aren't more comprehensive.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 1 points 12 hours ago

I had a similar problem with Lemmy.one. It was the push I needed to move over to Piefed, and I'm glad I did.

[–] don@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago

2-year lemm.ee user and general fan of all things Eesti, yeah. That one hurt. But I’m grateful my handle there still exists, and Lemmy’s still home, thanks to some very nice Canadians. Sure af ain’t going back to reddit/xhitter, etc.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Good to see you back!

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[–] KenOh@feddit.online 12 points 1 day ago

RIP lemm.ee, sunaurus' wonderful mustache will live on in our hearts.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

i noticed alot less content without lemee.ee, mainly because people scattered to other instances.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

Most of the lemm.ee communities went to a single community, the drop in content is mostly due to summer

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago

Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

We need more federated systems

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Lemmy could use more OC in niche communities.

Most posts are links to other websites.

It might be good to try and post OC from Lemmy or the rest of the Fediverse to mainstream social media sites as a form of exposure.

Maybe we can get this type of idea to become more common here.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Lemmy is a link aggregator. Reddit is as well. Sure, Reddit has started to generate a lot more OC over the last decade, but it took over a decade for that to pick up momentum and gain millions of active users. I don't want a mindless cesspool of half-assed OC. I mostly just want an easy one-stop-shop for news, memes, and discussions.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 16 points 21 hours ago

Discussions are, arguably, their own type of OC. Like this thread as one example. That's the kind of thing I, and I suspect @fujiwood@lemmy.world, would love to see more of.

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

It didn't take a decade for OC on smaller communities. I've been using Reddit since 2009. There was plenty of OC since ~2012.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And I used it since ~2007. Sure, I'll concede that OC existed back then, but expectations/standards were far lower. Simply starting topics or a meme template that hadn't been done before were fine, often times even hailed. Two broken arms, jollyrancher, coconut, whatever other gross ass viral thing weren't even pictures/videos, they were comments and/or text posts. They became Reddit legends/mythos/lore, regardless.

Anyway, that type of OC isn't going to invigorate the masses like it used to. Any of those stories nowadays would be met with heavy cynicism/skepticism (rightfully so, I might add). I guess my point is, Lemmy has only been somewhat known for a couple of years. It takes a lot of time to build momentum. Reddit continues to enshittify ever further, just like Digg did. Times are different now, there's a fuckton of competition in this type of social media format. What will make it successful is hard to say for certainty. I think sticking to link aggregation and topical discussions is a good start.

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I agree that the standards were lower. That resulted in a lot of fun because things were easier. It would be harder to gain momentum that way now.

The thing about link aggregation is that it can be done on any platform. You can post links to Piefed, Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr along with all mainstream sites. So why choose Lemmy over them?

The difference will be the OC. If users don't want to put in the work for it then people who join will get bored and move on.

I'll read comments on Reddit talking about Lemmy. Users will say they tried Lemmy but there was no interest/posts/discussion in their niche communities so they ended up back on Reddit.

We'll see what happens I guess.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

i think OC started to increase after 45 1st term, thats when people really jumped into social media for all the drama and content, and then found more drama(like livestream, and youtube,,,etc). i unkowingly used reddit(dint know it existed) around '13-14 ish for a console game. only til drumpf was elected then i moved over, before that i was still on Y'a answers enough.

[–] fujiwood@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I would say Reddit became mainstream in 2015 with over approximately 100 million users. That's when I started noticing the quality of comments start going down. That's when people stopped having discussions and started bickering more. Before that it was a lot less hostile and the topic of discussions were more fun and informative.

There was also a lot of OC at the time. You just needed to join subs in order to see it. But it was there.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

too bad alot of them are still significant on reddit, and are unlikely to move here, unless they all get banned somehow. we might see more users here if reddit does another ban wave, although i think reddit mightve figured shadowbanning is much more useful.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

most of the banning comes from the bigger subs, not the small niche ones.

every time i have been banned it's from political comments in a larger sub. never a niche one. my last ban was for supporting the mayor in a city subreddit. apparently it's 'enabling racism' to mention the race of your mayor in a positive light.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 1 day ago

Then they need to be removed for normalization of the data and average daily volumes.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

Probably.

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[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Not sure how you define strong but MAU has been dropping quite consistently for the past year or so.

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[–] omniman@anarchist.nexus 3 points 22 hours ago

If lemmy implement passkey and show all the comments of the post like in piefed with ccp social credit shit. I will hope back to it

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What’s with masto’s spontaneous drop in posts and contemporaneous rise in users about a month ago?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 day ago

it must've been a big instance going offline (or switching platforms? or blocking the stats collection?)

also note a lot of those graphs don't start at 0, the Y axis is zoomed

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

not loving the inorganic appearance in some of those rises and climbs. the sudden ones or the curved ones.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The first big jump lines up with the Reddit API Controversy. The June 2025 rise and fall is users migrating from lemm.ee, and then their previous accounts becoming inactive. I imagine the other irregularities are from similar events

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -4 points 21 hours ago

Thank you for correcting a lazy, ignorant hot-take.

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