Is the Fediverse stalling? (lemmy.relayeasy.com)

submitted 5 months ago by 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[-] Skavau@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

You initially made the Bluesky comparison. And to be clear, by "Lemmy" I did mean the wider Fediverse.

In any case, Bluesky itself is also flatlining and declining anyway.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 5 months ago

Bluesky itself is also flatlining and declining anyway.

Yeah, but my point is that they were a lot more effective in capturing mindshare when it was needed, and they didn't see growth as compromise on their values like people do here.

When the next fuckup from Big Tech comes around, do you think that people will think about going to Mastodon/Lemmy/PieFed, or they will just look at Bluesky?

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The Bluesky surge happened after a massive global election result and a massive grievance from progressives/leftists over Musk and how Twitter has become. Indeed, if you think lemmy is politically partisan - then Bluesky is no different.

The Reddit -> Lemmy surge happened because of some poor Reddit admin decisions. The scale of the events were on different levels.

When the next fuckup from Big Tech comes around, do you think that people will think about going to Mastodon/Lemmy/PieFed, or they will just look at Bluesky?

It would depend on the site origin of the fuckup. If Reddit fucks up, as a reaction - Lemmy would get many new users.

[-] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 5 months ago

The Bluesky surge happened after a massive global election result and a massive grievance from progressives/leftists over Musk and how Twitter has become

Why didn't they go to Mastodon? (hint: some of them did in 2022)

If Reddit fucks up, as a reaction - Lemmy would get many new users.

Or perhaps there will be some other platform that is not so afraid of growth like Lemmy is, and people will go there, just like people went to Bluesky instead of going to Mastodon?

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 5 months ago

Why didn't they go to Mastodon? (hint: some of them did in 2022)

No idea.

Or perhaps there will be some other platform that is not so afraid of growth like Lemmy is, and people will go there, just like people went to Bluesky instead of going to Mastodon?

Yeah, there might be. But it'd have to be pretty similar to Reddit. I don't know of any right now.

I don't know how you think the fediverse is somehow afraid of growth though.