Wir können in den letzten Monaten einen deutlichen Rückgang der aktiven Nutzenden feststellen. Doch was genau sind die Gründe dafür und was können wir dagegen tun?


Interessanter Artikel. Bin nicht sicher was ich davon halten soll. Hier ist die Statistik auf die der Artikel sich bezieht. Meine Instanz sieht auch einen massiven Ausschlag an neuen Nutzern letzten Februar/März aber auch hier im Threadiverse war es eigentlich immer schwer neue Nutzer zu halten. Wenn es denn tatsächlich auch echte neue Nutzer waren. Wir haben immer wieder diese Ereignisse mit einem Zustrom von Leuten. Aber ansonsten gehen die Statistiken für Lemmy eigentlich regelmäßig bergab. Und das ist auch schon eine ganze Weile so.

Und ich denke ich beobachte auch einen gesellschaftlichen Wandel. Also vielen Leuten ist das was mir wichtig ist zunehmend unwichtiger?! Oder wir haben resigniert? Aber eigentlich wäre doch im Moment ein guter Zeitpunkt um von den Plattformen die schon lange zunehmend kommerzieller und manipulativer werden zu Alternativen zu wechseln, die von Menschen für Menschen geschaffen werden?

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    Actually my impression is the opposite. There was a quiet moment around summer but then I’ve started to see even more traffic (as in posts in feeds I enabled notifications for)

    Also, unless it’s because of translation, stating even the developer of Mastodon, leaving the sinking ship is a tad too much. It’s all open-source, it cannot and should not rely on one person spending their whole life on it. mbin/kbin are an example

    And does fedidb take into account in those stats the lemm.ee diaspora?

    Maybe the interest wanes, it definitely is true that we, who care about getting out of clutches of BigTech, are a minority in current society. But as long as instances are kept up, code maintained, and content moderated, is it really a big problem? The whole idea that only growth is a progress is flawed. I think there’s nothing wrong in just keeping this our corner of the internet up, even if just for ourselves

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      Good questions. I’m afraid I don’t have good answers to them… I didn’t experience a peak either, but that might have happened on Mastodon and I don’t really follow that. Or it’s some fluke in the data like the lemm.ee thing, I really don’t know. Seems a bit early for the lemm.ee diaspora, as far as I remember most people migrated 2-3 months later. But with that said, my own experience doesn’t include any major uptake either. It’s roughly stayed the same for me. There is some variation with different communities, though. And there might be some overall more engagement with the comments. And there definitely are those quieter phases during summer. (And PieFed has been growing a lot. Which might skew my perspective, because I try to be more active in that part of the Threadiverse.)

      The “developer of Mastodon leaving the sinking ship” thing isn’t because of translation. That reads the same way in German. I think it’s supposed to be a dramatic, sensationalized opener for the article. Certainly a tad much but that seems to be their writing style. They’re raising a lot of questions or take a potshot at somebody or something and then move on. I let that slide because the entire article is obviously an opinion piece. And it’s supported by anecdotal evidence plus mostly by this one statistic… (And the numbers aren’t clear to me either, but that was the reason why I posted this here and wanted to discuss it…)