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:
- A small decrease in users on Lemmy: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- And a small increase on Piefed: https://piefed.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Peertube is up in total users and stabilizing in active users: https://peertube.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
- Mastodon is all over the place: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=365
Overall pretty good! Keeping the momentum going. Thanks everyone, whichever platform/instance you hail from!
Not sure how you define strong but MAU has been dropping quite consistently for the past year or so.
r/Redditalternatives describes the various reasons that people decided to abandon Lemmy and go back to Reddit:
- lack of content
- too difficult to figure out how to use
- it’s “the place that tankies built”
- too toxic, extremist leftists piling on anything not supporting their dogma hard enough, or sometimes just “too political”
- overall they do not feel welcomed. Tbf many on Reddit are centrists or even conservatives, and quite toxic themselves.
Notably, PieFed provides solutions to many of these e.g. the sign-up wizard that subscribes people to communities based on their indicated interests.
I was referring to the entire fedi is losing users. Appreciate sharing about Lenin.
Conservatives: “All these big websites keep gradually sucking for some unknowable reason. They must all just have the wrong people in charge.”
Just joined eviltoast and using voyager. Loving the switch from reddit.
Here from Reddit, have high hopes. This is a marketing problem though, I doubt even 1% of Reddit users know of something like lemmy at all
It doesn’t help that all comments mentioning Lemmy are instantly shadowbanned or removed.
Some of them are. Mine was.
I tried in 5 or 6 different subreddits. Different phrasing, sometimes not even outright saying the name, definitely not linking out. None of them made it through.
That’s probably the mod team rather than the site as a whole. /r/RedditAlternatives has regular discussions about Lemmy and the Fediverse, so at least that sub is ok
I have it linked in the subs I mod there. I welcome Reddit relieving me of duty, those subs are being neglected ngl lmao. :)
They definitely lose by missing you!
😘
Sure, but the average reddit-user doesn’t frequent /r/RedditAlternatives unless they’re looking for one.
The average reddit user isn’t indeed looking for an alternative, so they’re unlikely to welcome any suggestion anyway
Trust me, I’ve tried several times
Tbh I’m not sure the average Reddit user is who we want to attract here anyway. Not to be elitist, but there might be a benefit to at least some barrier to entry. From a bot/spam/troll perspective as well.
I’m curious what it will look like when school starts
Why would this change anything?
Are those two drops to zero a reporting error?
Those are legs so the line doesn’t fall down.
All ~14M users quit the fediverse simultaneously on that one day and changed their mind a day later
yes, probably from fediverse.observer itself going offline
Then they need to be removed for normalization of the data and average daily volumes.
Probably.
No. Everyone just decided to stop using the fediverse a couple of times for like a day. Guess you missed it.
Touch Grass Day
I came to ask why everyone suddenly deleted their account
What’s with masto’s spontaneous drop in posts and contemporaneous rise in users about a month 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
The Fediverse is more stable than my country’s government
Finna guess right quick.
US?
Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.
While the the letters are adjacent, I don’t think that was a typo. “Finna” is pretty common slang, just a variant of “gonna”
Oh. That’s a new one for me.
For further clarity, it’s a shortening of “fitting to” just like how “gonna” is a shortening of “going to.” As BremboTheFourth said, the two are synonymous.
While you’re on the right track, it’s fixing to, which to be honest doesn’t make any sense
Wiktionary suggests both “fixing to” and “fitting to” are used synonymously. Fwiw, in Tennessee, I only ever hear “fixing to”. As someone who learned English outside of the southern US, it makes little sense to me also. But what makes even less sense to me is people saying “trying to” to mean “want to”.
Short for fixing to, which now that I type it out, it makes less sense than finna
You nailed it. Short moment in time that anyone would agree though.
Yeah finna boutta
I was honestly so confused before I saw your reply to theirs, I live in the south so that’s just common lingo here
I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.
Wow, I wonder why.
If only we could move as easily as we can switch servers.
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.
Good to see you back!
RIP lemm.ee, sunaurus’ wonderful mustache will live on in our hearts.
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.
i noticed alot less content without lemee.ee, mainly because people scattered to other instances.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
thats when all the bots started, plus they were banning “QUESTIONABLE” subreddits they dint have a problem before, until the republicans started targeting social media.
the bannability also became pretty harsh around that time.
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.
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.
Thank you for sharing
Thank you for caring!
Seems like nobody cares about pixelfed here
The Fediverse is the way. In this Financialised capitalism, capitalist platforms will continue to be enshitified as they only tend to shareholders interests of continual growth. They do not care about humans.
We need to keep this momentum going.
not loving the inorganic appearance in some of those rises and climbs. the sudden ones or the curved ones.
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
Thank you for correcting a lazy, ignorant hot-take.
We need more federated systems
So you’re saying there’s a slim chance the underdog can stick around & possibly become what Reddit was meant to be?
& The handful of those of us that make memes for this lost creature should continue to do so?
I always prefer the underdog. Reddit even unbanned me & I’m like “nope, you don’t get to do that. I found a better friend that appreciates me in a more healthy way”
