It feels like it's dying. Just anecdotally it seems like there have been less threads lately, less quality threads, and less discussion overall. More anecdotally I feel like the last couple of federation / defederation slap fights ended with many users leaving as well. I can think of a few who left because we were federating, some who left because we then subsequently defederated from lots of the fediverse, and then even a few who said they would leave if we didn't defederate and then left anyway when we did.

I feel like mostly overall I have seen very few new posters, and have seen less and less of some certain power posters.

Is this just a illusion or is this really what's happening. What is to be done?

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[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

iirc it wasn't exactly accurate anyhow. At one point I believe it counted every tab as a user

[–] DayOfDoom@hexbear.net 30 points 11 months ago

I am the Hexbear tabs.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, something like that, but that's something that should've been easy to fix. Just wondering if the number was still available. Woulda been nice to know.

[–] DinosaurThussy@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

I believe the Lemmy backend is now accessible both through websockets and through HTTP endpoints. It doesn’t make the count impossible, but definitely complicates things. I don’t know why the decision was made to remove it, but I trust the devs didn’t remove it arbitrarily.