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It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!
https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50
Total users are huge now.
There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.
Reddit is killing itself. It really didn't have to do anything but let X & Insta & TikTok feed into it. It has a better structure for daily use that isn't quite so toxic.
But instead they are letting Mods go crazy, Admin-bots that blow up your account with no explanation, user-bots that spam rage bait & other low effort LLM slop, and so on. It's a dying platform that should be thriving. The first place people find after searching "Less toxic Reddit" is fediverse, so of course it's growing.
Oh and for some reason shoehorning in games? A product that tries to be everything becomes nothing.
I for one would like to community to stay as it is – small, but with a more meaningful discussion, similiar to hackernews. Lemmy and the wider Fediverse should be a reliable contender to the commercial platforms, and people like us who want an alternative.
I think it would benefit from growing - the volume of content & discussion it just too small to support niche topics. If you want to talk about things other than the top ~30 topics, you will be waiting days for any form of response.
Though the Threadiverse/Lemmy in particular is shrinking - as that same webpage shows when you filter for Lemmy, currently we have 33K monthly active users, down from 35K in recent months, itself further down from 40K in Dec. 2025, having fallen from 65K at the peak during Rexodus.
See also the graph for PieFed, which shows 7K MAUs.
Which I find highly notable, especially given how people are leaving Reddit... and also Lemmy/the Threadiverse as well.
Why not just count the two together? At 40k across lemmy + piefed, that's not bad.
The website does not provide for that, which is why I mentioned both separately.
Note that the numbers then are still shrinking.
I personally have an account on both, which helps illustrate the difficulties of combining the two number pools - these are absolutely not additional people, or rather only some are but nobody knows how much.
Which reminds me, I think the way this website counts numbers, lemm.ee may not be represented at all, even as a decrease in counts from the past? If true, then the actual number of the drop is much larger than shown. But I don't know the details there.
I was avoiding commenting about the goodness or badness of the situation, just focusing on the direction of the change.
I really wonder where they're going. I can't find any substitute for this little purgatory. Piefed? I'm not a fan of the UI. Masto? Twitter's a weird endless conversation space without proper organization and it makes me want to scream. Modern social media? We'd have vastly divergent desires if that's where they went.
Hacker news has been a nice place to browse. Yes a lot of the people are the most AI silicon valley brained ghouls but its offset by the entertainment of seeing them earnestly say the quiet part out loud. and because the forum has rules about sincerity thoughtful engagement you can open a thread and actually read a good discussion with intelligent comments.
Hacker news generally flags and shuts down posts critical of tech bros, capitalism, or the right wing.
Lobste.rs is a better alternative to HN.
People are just generally leaving the threadiverse because... Sorry everyone but its so bleak here.
The world is going to shit and there's nothing any of us can reasonably do about it.
I doubt there's a day that goes by that I don't think about how this place does not "fill my cup with joy".
At the same time I kind of can't look away because I do feel b that I'm better informed because I read about how shit everything is.
Worth noting, on FediDB, Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin is sitting at 54.8k MAU. Lemmy itself is at 46.4k. Though I don't know the historical situation there.
Looking at the PieFed graph, and all-time peak usage seems to be for last month, and the dip for this month could be explained by the month not being over yet (and even if not, it's not an indicator of decline).
You can't just count Lemmy active users. I switched from Lemmy to Piefed for example. So we need to count Lemmy+Piefed.
For myself, I am spending less and less time online as the US midterms approach and I would not be surprised if others are doing the same. My time is better spent offline at the moment, but I haven't really left. Just taking more and more breaks for now.
Reddit is an AI dumpster fire. There are still decent communities, but the glory days are behind it (the 20teens). Reddit circa 2012-15' was peak. Now it's an AI slop infested milquetoast facebook alternative. Damn shame. Hopefully the user base will finally realize the ship has sailed straight up it's own corporate butthole, and seek alternatives, such as this one.
I checked just now and it's still the same slop as when I abandoned it.
Feels like I haven't missed anything at all
I joined Lemmy, like 3 years ago I think. But I didn't start being active until this year. I think there is a lot of people like me, especially now that you have to log in to see old reddit. https://old.lemmy.world/ really tipped me over the edge in to being a regular.
Leaving Reddit wasn't easy. I read the tea leaves and left at apigate.
I had already eschewed Youtube API and was keeping Facebook out of arms length,
I poked around Bluesky for a while, it had a very strong pull.
I do not need machine-fed unlimited social media and news I don't thrive on it. Doomscrolling is not a good hobby.
Yea, reddit has been a serious habit for me for almost 20 years, never been on Insta or Facebook or any other SM platform like I was on reddit, everyday all day in the background. Its been a hard one to break.
I found Lemmy through grapheneos! That's my story. Love it.
If I hadn't smashed my iPhone in a work related accident I would never know the joy of ditching reddit and joining you folks.
Hazzah for happenstance! Life is great!
Yeah, you can tell, way more conservative liberals on here than there used to be.
Well, an alternative explanation would be LLM agent accounts, which started to appear on the fediverse around the time the above graph started to go up.
Here on Lemmy they are a bit delayed and only started to sign up in larger quantities in the last 2-3 months.
If you build it, they will come.
Newbie checking in. Hi.
Me too! And not a bot! Woohoo!
And not a bot!
Wonderful! We love human flesh around here!
EDIT: Ok, I'm reading that back and I see how it sounds. Just editing to say we are not cannibals.
EDIT 2: Ok, I know that denying that we are cannibals makes it look even more like we are cannibals, but I promise you we are not
Once AI starts stealing from us you'll know we've arrived.
That’s already a massive problem that brings down instances all the time.
Are you certain these are unique accounts?
Not necessarily.
There is a count of *active* accounts (i.e. accounts that someone is actually using), so there's that.
But since nobody on the Fediverse knows who anybody is in real life (except for the few who use their real name), there's no way to know how many accounts are non-unique.
There could, for example, be one person who actively uses accounts on both Mastodon and Piefed.
note that this is accounts. So for example, I have 3 accounts I use regularily.
I've definitely noticed my shitpost comments get a lot more engagement than they used to, so that's fun