I don't think that initial peak was ever "real" anyway. I think it was due to people creating multiple accounts on different instances (or maybe even claiming multiple usernames on the same instance) before settling down with the one account they were actually going to consistently use.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 25 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's me. I signed up for and used beehaw for a month before switching to my current lemmy.ca. My old account would definitely be counted the same way as someone who signed up, got bored and left

[–] folkrav@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

I shortly used lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works before settling on lemmy.ca as well

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 8 points 8 months ago

There are definitely people that bounced off Lemmy for whatever reason. No idea how many though, I myself had 4 accounts on various instances before I settled on this one.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Definitely at least part of it was people who came to try it out and left (back to Reddit or wherever).

And your case too. I also did it. But we'd be 100% speculating if either of us guessed which was more common and how much.