Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

  • no banana
    link
    English
    32
    edit-2
    10 months ago

    And loads of people hear the buzz, try it out and leave when they grow bored. I think the reason for the downward spike not being worse is that the threshold to take part in Lemmy communities is higher than many social media sites, and invested time registering makes people more likely to stay.

    • @romkube
      link
      English
      2310 months ago

      Just to chime in, please correct me if I’m wrong, but Lemmy only counts activity as someone who’s posting or commenting (citation needed), so as more people go back to their old ways of lurking, activity will drop as browsing isn’t counted as activity

      • @Redecco
        link
        English
        710 months ago

        Us lurkers are still here (hopefully) but it’s easy to go back to the ways of scrolling without engaging

      • Selkie210
        link
        fedilink
        English
        310 months ago

        That’s correct on the active users, as more people go back to lurking it will show less users but good chance they just don’t post much now