I just noticed that active users on Lemmy got slashed, what happened?
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Lemmy devs decided to exclude lemmy.world from the join-lemmy site because it's too big. Obviously that removes a lot of active users.
That's stupid.
The main problem with lemmy now is adoption, there isn't a critical mass of users yet.
When users see the stats without lemmy.world, they'll be discouraged from joining. Add to that the issues with federation and the few who join will leave because of the steep learning curve.
Way to alienate potential users.
Yeah. If they pushed it to the bottom of the list, or even removed them from the list but kept the user count, I could kind of understand it. But censoring them completely for being too successful seems like shooting yourself in the foot.
Lemmy.world is doing great and I'm happy for it and all that, but... 20 000 monthly active users does not exactly make them a tech giant that needs to be kept in check just yet. Ideally, instances of 20 000 active users should be quite normal at some point, and having stress tested the software before then should, one assumes, be a good thing.
You probably also have the friction been .world and the developers' Lemmy.
There is also a problem that Lemmy seems to be having problems maintaining a good middle ground of Lemmy servers.
buT mUh DeCenTrAlIZatiOn!
I want the biggest Lemmy you have.
No, that's too big.
It's a genuine concern though. If you want one centralised server hosting all the content, just use reddit.
so lemmy.world became too big to fail and the other instances decided didn't want to risk a potential bail out?
This has nothing to do with other instances. The join-lemmy.org site is run by the Lemmy developers and they decide what happens with that site. They think it's problematic that lemmy.world is as big as it is (as one of the points of the fediverse is decentralization). So they removed lemmy.world from the listing on join-lemmy.org.
Note that this is in no way a defederation or anything of that sort. The site just doesn't show lemmy.world, that's all.
my comment was mostly a joke, but it doesn't contradict your point, lemmy.word got too big(relatively) so it got de-listed to flow new users to other instances
Right, I didn't think how it would affect the total active user count. Will have to think of a solution for that.
I guess a new flag to only exclude it from the list but not exclude it from the stats 🤷
School probably.
Honestly, what's more surprising is the numbers are that drastic. I didn't think we have that many Gen Z users here.
EDIT: Actual reason can be found here: https://feddit.dk/post/7667476/10289642
Thanks SorteKanin for providing the context.
I don’t get it. I work full time and have no problem wasting my ~~life~~ I mean time here…
i'm in school, still have to shit from time to time
Hijacking top comment to give the actual answer: https://feddit.dk/post/7667476/10289642
I think because we have mostly memes and any discussion is just won by downvoting your opponent. :)
I'm half serious... The platform right now is lacking actual discussions. Everyone seems to just like memes.
Unfortunately, the Lemmy community copied opinion downvoting from Reddit.
There are good reasons to downvote, but a different opinion is not one of them. This just leads to echo chambers.
There are 3 options: upvote, downvote and the 3rd one is just not clicking anything.
The platform right now is lacking actual discussions.
I keep promoting the non-memes communities every time I can (usually on !newcommunities@lemmy.world ), after a while it just seems like most of the users do not actually even want to discuss that much, just look at memes (which is also fine)
How does the software pull the numbers? Maybe an instance got blocked 30 days ago?
So, most user are passive user. Maybe they leave because nothing interesting.
One another hypothesis is that the stats is not count fully as some instance was not up to the task, slow, ... So the now stat is under-count
So, most user are passive user.
Always has been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
The actual reason is here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13842484
Part of it is that people also moved on from Lemmy too. Lemmy is nice, but there also isn't very much by way of activity on it, which feeds back into itself. No activity means there's nothing to draw people into it, and not enough to keep them around when they are there.
One of the communities and (non-world) instances I frequented is all but dead these days.
huh, there's a whole instance just for the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime/manga
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