I joined during the first Reddit exodus, and it seemed like for ages the amount of Lemmy content was generally increasing (sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, but overall increasing). Now it seems that when I sort by New, I get through everything since my last visit much more quickly than I used to. Is that my imagination, or is the activity declining?

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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Total Lemmy Active Users by Month

There's a big spike during summer time. On reddit it was known as summer reddit. Basically all of the kids are out of school and have nothing better to do but shitpost online. Now they're going back to school. It could be the lack of different users you're noticing. Not sure why it dipped in July though, should have dipped in August.

[–] abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es 1 points 1 day ago

@fuckwit_mcbumcrumble @AFKBRBChocolate Is this users on a lemmy instance or users on any type of activitypub server engaging with lemmy communities? ive stopped using my lemmy account because I just subscribed to those communities from my friendica account

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't July 1st when lemm.ee shut down?

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ah, good point. Forgot about that. That's probably it.

The slight dip so far this month could be the beginning of the end of the summer Lemmy. Schools just started this week near me, and green is 30 day users so it should take 30 days for that to fully drop.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 6 points 2 days ago

Yeah, agreed. Between lemm.ee closing leading to people moving over to Piefed in droves and Summer Lemmy coming to an end I don't see anything concerning in the data I think.

[–] Microw@piefed.zip 2 points 2 days ago

Fediverse Observer says Piefed MAU were 352 in May, 1068 in June and 1615 in July. So thats a rise of ~1300 people in two months.