I get that they’ve been dipping recently, but holy crow-- could it really be true that there are well over 9M posts by day?! oO (and ~14M comments per day?) No way am I seeing a tiny fraction of that in my ALL feed, altho I understand that’s completely dependent on users at my instance being subscribed to communities around the FV.
One other interesting stat is that the running Lemmy instances have steadily been going down, which is naturally going to delete lots of user accts and communities, likely explaining part of the situation, here. So what if the users who choose to stay, decide to sign up via a different service, thereby ‘picking up the slack?’ (Mbin, PF, etc)
Those stats are total posts, not posts per day. Also worth noting that the home screen stats are misleading, as they include a bot-run Reddit mirror that is larger than the rest of Lemmy and PieFed combined, not to mention a lot of other smaller (but still massive) bots and bot-run instances that most are defederated from.
If you want to be more accurate, you have to filter through individual instances excluding outliers, and collect the data from each one to add up.
Overall, the stats seem to suggest that its lost momentum and grown stagnant, although stagnant does not mean dead either.
those graphs aren’t that great and easy to misinterpret: the 9M is the total number of posts, that were ever posted to lemmy. the graph just shows what that number was for each day (so for example the graph shows 8.9M yesterday and 9M today, that means 100k posts in one day)
I get that they’ve been dipping recently, but holy crow-- could it really be true that there are well over 9M posts by day?! oO (and ~14M comments per day?) No way am I seeing a tiny fraction of that in my ALL feed, altho I understand that’s completely dependent on users at my instance being subscribed to communities around the FV.
One other interesting stat is that the running Lemmy instances have steadily been going down, which is naturally going to delete lots of user accts and communities, likely explaining part of the situation, here. So what if the users who choose to stay, decide to sign up via a different service, thereby ‘picking up the slack?’ (Mbin, PF, etc)
Indeed, on the whole the FV still seems to be growing:
https://fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90
Those stats are total posts, not posts per day. Also worth noting that the home screen stats are misleading, as they include a bot-run Reddit mirror that is larger than the rest of Lemmy and PieFed combined, not to mention a lot of other smaller (but still massive) bots and bot-run instances that most are defederated from.
If you want to be more accurate, you have to filter through individual instances excluding outliers, and collect the data from each one to add up.
Overall, the stats seem to suggest that its lost momentum and grown stagnant, although stagnant does not mean dead either.
In which case-- what should we do?
Do you have any idea what we should do?
I’ve put 2+yrs in to this project, largely because… we just can’t be pushed around by other hypocritical, social media services.
those graphs aren’t that great and easy to misinterpret: the 9M is the total number of posts, that were ever posted to lemmy. the graph just shows what that number was for each day (so for example the graph shows 8.9M yesterday and 9M today, that means 100k posts in one day)
I was mostly just looking at total active users
but fair point mentioning other fediverse apps