That suggests that the current decline in monthly active users is primarily because lurkers who only came to lemmy after initially hearing about it on Reddit, went back to lurking Reddit.

The number of users that are contributors is still growing, and that’s what’s important.

[–] Grayox@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the positive news!!

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There’s also folks like me who came, 15 years on Reddit and I haven’t been back.

Those of us who actually interacted with the platform and left aren’t going back.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I'm close to that too, but I think mine was 13 years. The weird thing that I've noticed is that most of the time I was on Reddit, almost no one I talked to in real life used Reddit. I struggled for years to try to get people to check the site out. Now that I left, I swear I hear someone I know mention Reddit exponentially more often. The average person doesn't give a damn about how shitty the platform has become, because they weren't around to see what it used to be. The average person WANTS to see ads interspersed with their cookie cutter content with stupid ass features like chat and followers. Good riddance.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, arrived during the initial digg exodus, had tens of thousands of posts at Reddit, modded two subreddits. Closed my account the day during the protests and haven’t been back.

I’m not as active here, mostly due to a busier life but found a new home anyway.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same, 13 years redditor here. And since I came to Lemmy in June, I posted over 1k posts because I love this platform and want it to grow. Fuck reddit.

[–] MountainGoat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. First they killed RedditGifts, then AMAs, then the up vote/down vote debacle, and when they took away my ability to use Relay is when I left. Screw them.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm a counter example. I contributed on Reddit, moderated my own subreddit with a couple of thousand viewers; couple of tens of contributors

I haven't been back to that sub, haven't appointed any other mods. If automod can't handle shit, shit isn't being handled

I have been back to other subs. There are small inoffensive places on Reddit that simply haven't moved

I still visit those subs, still write on them, just not nearly as often

Edit to add: checking today, those subs are becoming less good. With no good app, so many of the prolific commenters don't comment much now. I also had a reply to a 2015 comment I made. I thought stuff was auto-archived much quicker than that

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

My Reddit account was 12 years old. I'm staying on Lemmy forever, monthly active users be damned.

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm yet to encounter the majority of issues I hear Lemmings griping about. Everyone has been pretty civil toward me. Every time my inbox blows up I feel dread, only to open it and find zero confrontation or vitriol. I'm not running into any racists, sexists, bigots, etc., and I certainly haven't noticed a decline in content (I browse Top ~6 Hours).

I realize my personal experience doesn't equate to these problems not existing, but I do get the strong impression that people are exaggerating greatly.

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been active for a month and in my opinion too many users have radicalised and extremist mindsets, but other than that it's alright.

Going back to reddit would mean to install that unbearable app they have and having to deal with incompetent admins, so I will stay here for some time.

I can see why it's off-putting for a lot of people though.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly my experience as well. Sure, I don't have infinite scroll, but I also don't feel like an algorithm is trying to make me angry. When I get responses, they're typically thoughtful or on topic.

[–] Xabis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

infinite scroll

Depends on the client you are using.

For phone or tablets try using the Voyager native app.

For browser try m.lemmy.world which is just the web version of Voyager.

There are other clients like old.lemmy.world for that “authentic” feel.

[–] EmielBlom@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

I'm still lurking here!

[–] greenfish@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm still seeing so much growth in new content and communities, idk if the raw number of users is the metric we even should care about. Is it the best measure of quality?

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I also think a big part of it is how active users are counted. Saw in a different thread that it only counts accounts who have commented or posted in the last month. Well.. I browse and vote on probably an average of 30-50 posts and many of their comments every single day, but the last comment I left was over a month ago.

I also wonder if the active user count is counting people who made multiple accounts across different instances and was therefore always massively overinflated to begin with. I have 5 lemmy accounts - one on lemmy.world when I first joined, one on lemmynsfw for happy fun times, and 3 more trying to find a different instance with the de federation policy and hoster that I wanted after lemmy.world was going through their ddos downtime issue.