Hey, that’s me
Went to the website link looking for context and couldn’t find it so I’ll ask here. What is the significance of the blue Halfyear line?
Ooof, Dwindling
I mean, the graph doesn’t fo a good job of showing it, but it looks like there are around 50% more users now compared to June.
No, it means that there was a peak of user activity in June which is not being sustained.
That peak was never going to be sustained though. We’re approaching the “stick around” number which is good to know.
Prior to June 2023, Lemmy was holding steady around 1,000 monthly active accounts. So it’s still up more than 30x from that baseline.
Since this graph shows active accounts and not active users, I’ll bet a significant contributor to the drop is people not using all the alt accounts they initially created.
All the people returning and forgetting what reddit did and will continue to do. Then the next time reddit messes up, they will come back. 😔
Edit: other stats seem pretty good though! Unless i am misunderstanding them.
The blue one doesn’t reset count every mount so it’s cululative. It means people come and go. There was a big Reddit rush and some people went back others got annoyed with the growing pains and went elsewhere. But the fact that it’s slowing down means it’s stabilizing to a dedicated community.
For whatever anecdotal observations are worth, I’ve recently been seeing a huge uptick in activity from the userbase that is here. Maybe it’s been driven by posts like this one or memes about growing Lemmy, but people seem to be posting and commenting more than usual.
I don’t know about huge but the data on the same page supports the observation on post quantity. It’s still steadily increasing.
Comments might be currently on a stable trend.
