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Is the number of Lemmy users increasing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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In recent weeks, I have posted an absolutely staggering amount of content on Lemmy.

My goal is simply to support the platform. I hate huge corporations.

Now I'm taking a break. I won't post anything or I'll post very little (I still feel a little guilty!! Who will post new content 😢?)

But I need to focus on improving my own life and relax.

However... I'm just curious.

Is the number of Lemmy users actually increasing, decreasing, or staying the same? Is that data even available?

Edit: I will still post stuff. I'll just post a lot less!

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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 12 points 5 days ago (6 children)

From what I've seen, no - the number of people actually regularly on here is going down, as I'm just seeing the same people more and more. When I use voyager you can see when your personal upvote/downvote score for every user on every one of their posts, and I'm mostly seeing people with a != 0 score, meaning I've interacted with their comments before. Means I'm not frequently seeing new people.

People like me who came here to escape the reddit bullshit of authoritarian power hungry mods and admins, insane censorship of anything right of "far left", and reinforcements of echo chambers through moderation, quickly found out that, if anything, Lemmy is already worse in some regards than reddit.

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (10 children)

honest question because personally I'm not seeing it or maybe I'm just blinded to it but how is it worse? From what I've seen the moderation hasn't been anywhere near as heavy handed as on Reddit with the exception of nuking bots. Maybe because I'm just blocking certain instances that I'm not seeing it.

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It's not. But mods generally just ban/threaten you if you post anything they disagree with. just like reddit. they have an agenda and if you are not on board with it 100% you are to be purged.

for example i've been banned from multiple lemmy communities because I dared to disagreed with the 'autism/non NT make you superior' narrative quite a few communities here were pushing. or questioning the 'perfection' of Linux...

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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

we peaked mid 2023, i have posted 2.8k comments in 2.5 years, so my work complements yours

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[–] quid_pro_joe@infosec.pub 14 points 6 days ago (34 children)

Slowly going down. The learning curve is too steep for the general population (personal opinion, happy to debate).

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

~~Nobody is recording long-term stats yet AFAIK~~, so you have to find a workaround. It seems the rest of Lemmy is growing relative to Hexbear, at least.

Edit: Nevermind, there are sites being linked here. It looks like by MAU it's more or less holding steady. Which maybe means Hexbear is dying from toxicity and infighting?

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