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?

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    When instances close, users tend to just disappear (as when Lemmy.ee closed down). The Lemmy.ee users seem to have just disappeared instead of migrated to another instance.

    I suggest you look at the piefed activity indicator for more context here.

    A big chunk of the lemm.ee base went here, and its gaining servers where Lemmy is losing them.

    • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Yeah, that makes sense. Though still Lemmy.ee’s closure is a drop of ~4500 monthly active users while piefed only totals ~1700 monthly active users in total.

      • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Oh yes, it has some impact - but the slow decline of Lemmy instance activity has to be contextualised with whats going on Piefed (and to a lesser extent: Mbin)