I just noticed that active users on Lemmy got slashed, what happened?
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Lemmy pulled a CNN. Basically, all Trump news again.
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2024
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Eh, i doubt it's that. Every other website is doing the same shit.
Likely it's just that Lemmy has a fraction of the content/activity that Reddit has, so people probably just came to Lemmy, got bored, and went back to Reddit, ha.
Yes, those websites have Trump content as well but is it a majority of the front page?
Numbers are the same, the actual reason is here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13842484
I don't understand the logic to exclude it. That just makes the user count grossly inaccurate.
So, most user are passive user. Maybe they leave because nothing interesting.
One another hypothesis is that the stats is not count fully as some instance was not up to the task, slow, ... So the now stat is under-count
So, most user are passive user.
Always has been: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
The actual reason is here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/13842484
Strange, I feel people are commenting more.
Did lemmy do something in the meantime to keep bots out?
If a lot of them can't operate anymore like before they wouldn't count as active users anymore either and would explain discrepancies, or not?
Not that I know anything about how bots or websites work tbh.
Idk if bots were ever that present on here, excluding the ones that basically scrape reddit for content
Second attempt, I removed lemmy.world from the blocklist and instead added some code to hide any instances with more than 30% of all active users.
https://join-lemmy.org/instances still shows 28k rather than 44?
Its not merged/deployed yet.
Makes sense!
Wait, TF
Part of it is that people also moved on from Lemmy too. Lemmy is nice, but there also isn't very much by way of activity on it, which feeds back into itself. No activity means there's nothing to draw people into it, and not enough to keep them around when they are there.
One of the communities and (non-world) instances I frequented is all but dead these days.
44k is still the actual number compared to 28k.
Also, which are those dead communities?
The Star Trek ones over on startrek.website. They weren't the most active to begin with, though their activity has dropped a bit more over time.
The memes moved to [email protected], but you might know that already
I didn't, actually, but thank you.
The CIA got 'em
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