It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren’t attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we’ll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    15
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    This is one of the main things keeping a lot of us around I think. It’s not just repost bots of shit I’ve seen 5 times in a month.

    • regalia@literature.cafe
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, still we lack variety because our algo doesn’t do a good job of promoting smaller communities. I’d like a lot more niche subs get more popular rather then our few dozen or so that have gotten big, which is still a good thing don’t get me wrong.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        That I agree with, the other thing that kills me is multiple communities of the same topic just in different servers.

        • regalia@literature.cafe
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          1 year ago

          No, the algo for active/hot favor large communties, so smaller ones tend not to show up on the front page. It should be tweaked so smaller ones pop up more often. Reddit solved that somehow, I don’t know what they changed though.

          • Strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            edit-2
            1 year ago

            @regalia
            > the algo for active/hot favor large communties, so smaller ones tend not to show up on the front page

            I presume it’s the same as what determines which posts appear on the front page of a Mastodon server; chronological order of posts. That would favour the larger communities, since people post there more often.

            The other limiting factor, I presume, is a Lemmy server only knows about the communities its accounts are members of. Larger communities will have members on more servers.

                • regalia@literature.cafe
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  I can tell lol, especially when you mentioned Mastodon’s recent post first timeline. Lemmy is very, very different. I recommend actually looking at what it looks like on the site, it’s extremely different then how it looks on mastodon.

                  • Strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
                    link
                    fedilink
                    arrow-up
                    0
                    ·
                    1 year ago

                    @regalia
                    > I recommend actually looking at what it looks like on the site, it’s extremely different then how it looks on mastodon

                    Yes, I’m familiar. I’ve been following Lemmy development for several years, as part of research for fediverse.party. That’s the background to my comments about the algorithm determining what appears on a Lemmy front page.

                    If you’re proposing that there’s a more complicated algorithm at work, what do you think it is?

    • isthingoneventhis@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      1 year ago

      V true. I will say seeing the same post across 5 instances does make me feel like I’m going crazy sometimes so I guess it’s a tradeoff xD