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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ribboo@lemm.ee to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

So since the mass-exodus from Reddit we can see that the total amount of active users has gone down rather heavily: https://i.imgur.com/MeQok2F.png

This can seem a bit sad at a first glance. Where are we heading? But one has to remember that back during the summer many of us created several accounts to settle at an instance, there were also problems with spam-bots of various kinds.

So active users in itself is actually not that interesting. At least not the comparison with the peak. Instead we can watch the total amount of posts, how is that looking?

Well it's steadily going up actually: https://i.imgur.com/i3Vse7Y.png

Though the increase has gone down slightly. This number however is influenced by other parameters as well. There are several reposts bots and such that mass-post to different instances. But it's definitley a good tell it's not going down.

Another interesting factor is comments: https://imgur.com/hWT8xvF

The amount of comments per month has gone down, but not by all that much. A 10% decrease from the top or so. What's interesting here is that the decline has plateaued, which could indicate that the userbase has settled and become somewhat consistent. This is great news.

All in all, it seems like Lemmy has settled into a rather comfortable spot, with a decent amount of users, posts and comments. That is very slightly decreasing. Ideally we'd like to see this trend reverse, and perhaps that might happen naturally with due time when things have settled even more. For Lemmy I'd reckon the growth will look a bit like this. Whenever Reddit does something horrific (and it will happen more), we'll see a mass-exodus with more users over here. Then it'll decrease for a bit, settle and hopefully we can rinse and repeat. Anyway - that's some irrelevant thoughts from me on the subject.

Just wanted to post these rather good statistics!

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[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Anecdotal, but I bounced around between 5 accounts when I first joined, then settled into 2. One regular account and one for memes/NSFW.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

One account! Own your depravity! Lol

[-] Nobody@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I like to keep my funposting separate from seriousposting. I frequently fail, but I try.

[-] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

too easy for a power tripping adm to ban you still. sadly that's one thing that lemmy is just as bad as reddit was

[-] BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

One account to rule them all

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Does nsfw even exist on lemmy or am i on the wrong instance?

[-] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Check your user settings, you might have nsfw posts delisabled by default

[-] jose1324@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't. But most I've seen is just OF ads of the same girl or bot reposts with communities that only have like 50 images.

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure how that got deleted.

That's just what lemmynsfw is unfortunately. It's mostly bots reposting content or girls hocking their OF. There's like Sexmeat who used to be a redditor, with a far more vulgar name (Fuckmeat) and maybe a half a dozen others.

.world might not be federated with NSFW communities, as a lot of major instances don't want to deal with the legal ramifications of hosting pornography in any form. .ca has not defederated from the NSFW instances, however most of our userbase tends to block the communities when they do pop up, assuming they have NSFW enabled.

I started to find the porn side of things to be weird and pathetic. Outside of the random ass niche fetish communities popping up, it just feels really sad to see the same half a dozen girls trying to advertise to basically nobody. We have an infinitesimally smaller userbase than reddit, and as much as I like seeing naked ladies, OF ads get fucking tiresome and I think they are way less effective here than elsewhere.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

lemmynsfw also banned CNC and is hostile to the drawn/animated side of the medium, which, if Pornhub's numbers are anything to go by, is going to cut your participation big time. People love hentai and kink.

lemmynsfw's admins never seemed to get that running a successful porn site means hosting content that might turn you off personally and trusting your mods to handle content control in categories unfamiliar to you.

Not surprising at all to me that a bunch of reposts and sex work ads what they were left with.

[-] TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Check out the lemmynsfw.com instance.

[-] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago

It's very confusing because there's settings for it in the apps, then there settings for it in your account and finally some instances don't even federate with NSFW content so you have to check at all 3 levels to get it working.

[-] huginn@feddit.it 5 points 1 year ago
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