I can confirm this. Lemmy started 6 years ago, and the “programming” communities are still an empty desert. I know I (and we all) could submit more posts, but it hasn’t really changed since the beginning. Sad but true, but I still prefer this compared to reddit.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats Lemmy has fallen by 10k in a year. Of course Piefed has increased it by about 6k, so it’s a net decline of about 4-5k.
Lemmy hasn’t grown more popular in the last year really. It’s fairly stagnant currently.
I can confirm this. Lemmy started 6 years ago, and the “programming” communities are still an empty desert. I know I (and we all) could submit more posts, but it hasn’t really changed since the beginning. Sad but true, but I still prefer this compared to reddit.
user activity is far more than it was a year ago. seems like the people that have joined more recently post a lot more.
Is it? It’s slightly up. It is a up a little bit more if you include Piefed.
I’ve been on fedi for 2.5 years. the past six months have seen a huge uptick in activity from my experience.
a year ago posts were rarely seeing 100s of comments. now dozens of posts per day are getting that.
i’ve also seen a ton more spam, AI content, and bot activity.
I don’t think the data plays this out.
https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats Lemmy has fallen by 10k in a year. Of course Piefed has increased it by about 6k, so it’s a net decline of about 4-5k.
that’s users. that’s not the volume of what they are posting. those are two entirely different metrics