There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) - eviltoast

It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren’t attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we’ll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

  • Kushan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Okay but how do we fix it?

    I think you answer your own question -

    This isn’t exactly the easiest platform to use.

    I quite like lemmy, but the barrier to entry is far too high to enjoy the platform. Assume your user doesn’t give a flying monkies about federation and things like that, they just want the memes and content - if we can crack that, we might be onto something.

    • cubedsteaks@lemmy.today
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      1 year ago

      I was just hoping for something more than a meme/news site.

      You can get that anywhere. So Lemmy isn’t exactly standing out.