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

  • Tasha@lemy.lol
    42·
    1 year ago

    as near as I can tell the technology is great, but the people are horrible. Almost every interaction is unpleasant, and when I do get some interesting conversation going some troll reports me and an admin nukes my account. So I am not optimistic about the future.

    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      I see, that’s unfortunate.

      I try to avoid communities with a lot of toxic / troll people (mostly politics and news communities), it’s working more or less so far

      • Tasha@lemy.lol
        23·
        1 year ago

        If I only wanted to look at pics of cats then Twitter or Instagram would do just as well. If Lemmy survives as a forum for vacuous fluff then it’ll have to do so without me :-)

    • imaqtpie@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I think Lemmy is going through some growing pains right now. Many of the integral members of the platform, the developers and admins, are overwhelmed with work, because the platform is still in an early stage of development and it’s not as functional as it could be.

      Additionally, the original servers are clashing with the new servers as they attempt to find common ground. A month or two ago, things were much more chill because people were just starting to explore. But now people have strong feelings about other instances and those feelings need to be hashed out. I am confident that we have enough reasonable people on all sides to reach a pragmatic compromise.

      I feel the vast majority of interactions I’ve had with people on Lemmy have been positive. I hope that Lemmy can be a space that transcends the toxicity of the discourse on other social media platforms. But it will probably take some time to achieve that goal.

    • lemmyingly@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Do you not feel the same is true with Reddit?

      • Downvoted perfectly good and reasonable comments. Some are the correct answers because you know a lot about a particular thing in the world.

      • Downvoted perfectly good and reasonable submissions

      • Reddit mods shadow banning your submissions/comments

      • Reddit mods deleting your submissions/comments and/or locking them.

      • People in general just being asses.

      I’m not saying that Lemmy is perfect but it feels like both can have a similar vibe. A lot of Lemmy people were/still are Reddit people and so it makes sense that both have similar vibes.