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There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) (lemmy.fediverse.observer)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.

Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren't attracted enough to become regular visitors.

Curious to see at which number we'll stabilize.

Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)

Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list

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[–] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@regalia
> I believe “active” sort has comments bump put an entire post

So a new comment in a thread bumps the OP to the front of the queue?

> The “hot” algo is slightly more complicated that factors in votes

Ah, right. I hadn't considered that. "Votes" in Lemmy are essentially the same as "Favourites" in Mastodon, but I think the Masto devs made an intentional choice *not* to increase visibility of posts based on number of Favourites.

[–] strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz 1 points 2 years ago

@regalia
In either Lemmy algorithm, only communities that Server Y knows about can be featured on the front page of Server Y, right? Which as I said, is also going to benefit larger communities, as they're more likely to have members on more servers, and will therefore be featured on more front pages.