I honestly like the small, eclectic vibe better.

I don’t know what the number is, but I’ll arbitrarily say, anywhere under a quarter million is perfect.

I know the federation model provides a strength against the cascading list negatives that plague popular platforms, but I don’t doubt that with a large enough user base, exploits would certainly seep in, particularly with ease of AI bot manipulation and astroturfing.

It reminds me of the Linux saying “security through obscurity”.

Ahhhhhh, that’s a much more intriguing question. You do have a limit to how many data points you can fit on a chart. Monthly average allows you to go back much further but with less insight.

I would assume you would get a much rounder example if you sampled weekly.

Woo we staying!

Also anyone know how to use their API? https://api.fediverse.observer/

I would love to make a “treadiverse” combo line. Cause its hard to look at when piefed is slowly going up, lemmy is slowly going down, and m/k bin is going all over.

EDIT: Never mind, found it. Theres an icon on the right hand side.

Another top quality blazepost. Thanks for those community recos

There are dozens of dozens of dozens of dozens of us! Dozenses!

In the repost on the Chile community, also saw one or other comment about Lemmy being toxic. I do notice a certain “toxicity”, though from certain corners and which seems to stems more often from what I call “misery posting”, which would be posts whose main focus seems to be to make the given topic appear like a lost cause to the reader (even some “meme” communities seem to fall on this).

Since some communities seem specially prone for such posts, I second blocking those as you notice the patterns to try to make your feed healthier, and to hopefully make such places shrink into a healthier size. Or at least, if you got the patience and resistance to mass downvoting and mobbing, to post in those communities and within their rules what to you is positive. Alternatively/Parallel to that, one could make sure to react accordingly to posts, instead of uninterestedly hide everything in feed as the user scrolls.

Otherwise, a given environment shrinking or tanking in growth could also mean people that use it are growing apathetic or anomic to popularizing it, to which I repeat my suggestion in the Chile community, change starts by small steps. So for example, if someone is on a platform compatible by extension but without an ActivityPub bridge or function active (e.g. Threads and Bluesky), to explain to them they could activate it, and e.g. Fedi Brdigy is working on Lemmy compatibility, so more potential users going around. Also, if you see a funny meme or the sort, you could share the link, provided it has a decent blurb preview on the platform to be sent.

Also spikes happen anywhere when competing platforms have issues, so current retention might just be its natural one.

And even on a Lemmy account I have (thus little noise from microblogging) and while highly curating my feeds there, the amount of posts is almost too much for me to be able to go through. So by observation, the “threadiverse” as a whole seems rather healthy in numbers.

So what’s going on here, most likely, is that the intake of new users is declining as opposed to people specifically being driven off the platform (as some users allege).

maybe the real problem is Nicole left us

Mlem (iOS) doesn’t exactly consolidate comments across cross posts, but it does list, at the top, all of the cross posts, how many comments each one has, and links directly to them.

My problem right now is I’m on Fedia.io and I’m liking the interface, but more and more, what used to be other instances popping up in my feed, are disappearing, and I feel like I’m missing 1/2 the content that lemmy has to offer.

i’m no line expert but i see a teeny tiny downward trend

And now Search Engine is talking about it.