The vast majority have simply left. Last I checked, Lemmy has 29K MAUs, while PieFed iirc had something like 7K. The difference between that vs. 200K is an order of magnitude.
Oh yeah the vast majority has left, but that’s always the case, even sites like reddit have an order of magnitude or two more accounts than active users.
But people are acting like MAU has significantly declined over the past two years which it hasn’t really.
We’ve been hovering around 40k MAU in the threadi for 2 good years now.
They ain’t lurking. They’re not even logging in.
They switched to a different instance
Or to piefed.
The vast majority have simply left. Last I checked, Lemmy has 29K MAUs, while PieFed iirc had something like 7K. The difference between that vs. 200K is an order of magnitude.
Oh yeah the vast majority has left, but that’s always the case, even sites like reddit have an order of magnitude or two more accounts than active users.
But people are acting like MAU has significantly declined over the past two years which it hasn’t really.
We’ve been hovering around 40k MAU in the threadi for 2 good years now.
Called Reddit.