I've been watching the stats on occasion and lately, I've noticed that Lemmy's number of active users has been decreasing. (for the last month at least).

While the number has been on an upward trend for the last 6 months

Last month's stats have been less than rosy.

So could anyone explain how this might affect Lemmy? I think I've read before that only people who post or comment count as active users, but seeing it go down is kinda alarming. So am I right in thinking that Lemmy has been losing active users since July 11 or am I missing something?

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[–] andrewrgross 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

To add to this, the best course of action is to:

1- Enjoy and continue to use the platform if you like it, so there is activity for new people to interact with
2- Continue to develop features
3- Moderate effectively to maintain a constructive experience
4- Then wait for the next outrage cycle to generate new interest

In our case, we already know that reddit is going to announce its IPO eventually. Assuming they don't do something to piss off users sooner than this, this will likely be the next major event to drive people to check out Lemmy. People who checked it out but fell away will already have accounts, and new people will check it out for the first time. If we do steps 1, 2, and 3 well, when step 4 occurs the retention will be higher each time.--

[–] sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 4 points 1 year ago

Yep!

If you like the fediverse, then the answer is to be on the fediverse.

It's a pretty awesome platform anyway, so it's worth being on regardless of the entire earth being here.