Only one that matters is MAU and that has been flatlining, and going down if you remove the nsfw influx. It’s really not going as well as it should: the internet is growing every day, and reddit, X, FB, and the others are all cozying up to fascism, and we’re struggling to show meaningful growth.
Sort of - it has been going down even if you don’t discount that. The peak at Rexodus was 65K, we held 40-45K for a long time, but just as the Fediverse Observer site stopped working we had finally dropped below 30K (see last Fedilytics post), after trending towards that for a very long time.
We continually lose more people than come in to replace them. And as they leave, they tell people how horrific their experiences were here, having been chased away by trolls (we require a lot of blocking actions performed at the user level to maintain sanity here).
After more than 2 years, I discovered that a large portion of Lemmy is closset pro trump, and anti elections, while calling themselves “left”.
Some random mod even went through the trouble of banning me from a couple dozen communities on their instance because I encourage early voting. Encouraging voting equals being a zionist over there. So yeah, this thing is dying.
The main reason Lemmy exists and is free is because instance owners are seeing it as a tool to radicalise unsuspecting users. Turns out these platforms all come with a spez bolted on.
In fairness they don’t actually care about Trump so much as “death to America”, so wanting to use him to bring about the end of that empire. And that’s not so much closeted as it is trumpeted loudly and proudly everywhere.
And likewise conservative parties in the UK, and elsewhere in the Western civilization. Also, according to them, unironically Russia was “forced” into invading Ukraine, bc of NATO aggression or whatevs. And there’s no genocide going on inside of China. That’s… good to know, I suppose, or would have been good if it were true.
But they are (not even alternative) right about one thing: what are we going to do about it? If nothing, as is roughly 80% the case so far, then that’s that.
I get it in a world that has shifted dramatically to the right, the left has been squeezed and compressed and pushed and pushed towards more extreme values to counterbalance that.
But the death of an empire seems to me like the equivalent of shooting your own foot to forget about your toothaches.
And more importantly, that infamous quote comes up:
“You fool! As if it matters how a man an empire falls down.” To which his companion replies: “When the fall’s all that’s left, it matters a great deal.”
Nobody was pushed into anything - they chose it. We can watch videos of people being killed in Tiannamen Square, while they choose to believe that nobody died there. Yes, people “push” back, saying that people died there, and look here’s all this proof, like here you can talk to this person who was there even… but in return they stuck their head into the sand and close their eyes and ears and believe whatever fantasy they wish.
And then work to overthrow America, along with the rest of the Western World (the USA was only a high priority due to resources, but all nations nearby and especially adjacent to Russia would be nice plump targets if that were possible…).
Exactly like MAGA in the USA, the various “issues” (like anti-abortion, anti-trans agenda, or pro-states rights, except when they feel otherwise then it’s anti-states rights, etc.) don’t matter nearly so much as hollowing themselves out to allow themselves to be controlled by those at the top. Tankies will debate-bro you endlessly, using logical fallacy after logical fallacy forever, but at the end of the day somehow none of the facts actually matter, and it devolves simply into advancing the agendas of nations that aren’t the least bit leftist in reality. Like the fall of Western civilizations, though at this point I halfway expect the narrative to change to supporting the USA as it works to become Russia’s ally.
You make a very salient point. If Vladdy somehow manages to get Donny to completely become USSR aligned, I’m sure the hostility towards the west will die down significantly.
Don’t worry, I just typed USSR as I have this image that that turns on one of those hi-whining incandescent red lights from the 80s in some control room in Kalingrad.
Why is it the only one that matters? We aren’t a startup trying to attract VC or go public or something. What matters to the users of Lemmy is how much content is here and whether it’s high quality or just bot spam.
I think what matters is funding and donation, not monthly active users. As long as people keep donating, the servers stay up and stay ad-free. Lemmy can cater to a specific paying user base and thrive from there. More active users that do not donate can be detrimental as the revenue does not scale by user base as it is not ad-driven but donation driven. More users can indeed increase potential donations but it’s not a guarantee.
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I think by post volume it may be (which is a more important metric IMHO)
Only one that matters is MAU and that has been flatlining, and going down if you remove the nsfw influx. It’s really not going as well as it should: the internet is growing every day, and reddit, X, FB, and the others are all cozying up to fascism, and we’re struggling to show meaningful growth.
Sort of - it has been going down even if you don’t discount that. The peak at Rexodus was 65K, we held 40-45K for a long time, but just as the Fediverse Observer site stopped working we had finally dropped below 30K (see last Fedilytics post), after trending towards that for a very long time.
We continually lose more people than come in to replace them. And as they leave, they tell people how horrific their experiences were here, having been chased away by trolls (we require a lot of blocking actions performed at the user level to maintain sanity here).
After more than 2 years, I discovered that a large portion of Lemmy is closset pro trump, and anti elections, while calling themselves “left”.
Some random mod even went through the trouble of banning me from a couple dozen communities on their instance because I encourage early voting. Encouraging voting equals being a zionist over there. So yeah, this thing is dying.
The main reason Lemmy exists and is free is because instance owners are seeing it as a tool to radicalise unsuspecting users. Turns out these platforms all come with a spez bolted on.
In fairness they don’t actually care about Trump so much as “death to America”, so wanting to use him to bring about the end of that empire. And that’s not so much closeted as it is trumpeted loudly and proudly everywhere.
And likewise conservative parties in the UK, and elsewhere in the Western civilization. Also, according to them, unironically Russia was “forced” into invading Ukraine, bc of NATO aggression or whatevs. And there’s no genocide going on inside of China. That’s… good to know, I suppose, or would have been good if it were true.
But they are (not even alternative) right about one thing: what are we going to do about it? If nothing, as is roughly 80% the case so far, then that’s that.
I get it in a world that has shifted dramatically to the right, the left has been squeezed and compressed and pushed and pushed towards more extreme values to counterbalance that.
But the death of an empire seems to me like the equivalent of shooting your own foot to forget about your toothaches.
And more importantly, that infamous quote comes up:
Nobody was pushed into anything - they chose it. We can watch videos of people being killed in Tiannamen Square, while they choose to believe that nobody died there. Yes, people “push” back, saying that people died there, and look here’s all this proof, like here you can talk to this person who was there even… but in return they stuck their head into the sand and close their eyes and ears and believe whatever fantasy they wish.
And then work to overthrow America, along with the rest of the Western World (the USA was only a high priority due to resources, but all nations nearby and especially adjacent to Russia would be nice plump targets if that were possible…).
Exactly like MAGA in the USA, the various “issues” (like anti-abortion, anti-trans agenda, or pro-states rights, except when they feel otherwise then it’s anti-states rights, etc.) don’t matter nearly so much as hollowing themselves out to allow themselves to be controlled by those at the top. Tankies will debate-bro you endlessly, using logical fallacy after logical fallacy forever, but at the end of the day somehow none of the facts actually matter, and it devolves simply into advancing the agendas of nations that aren’t the least bit leftist in reality. Like the fall of Western civilizations, though at this point I halfway expect the narrative to change to supporting the USA as it works to become Russia’s ally.
I wish you had told me this a week ago (:
You make a very salient point. If Vladdy somehow manages to get Donny to completely become USSR aligned, I’m sure the hostility towards the west will die down significantly.
Don’t worry, I just typed USSR as I have this image that that turns on one of those hi-whining incandescent red lights from the 80s in some control room in Kalingrad.
Why is it the only one that matters? We aren’t a startup trying to attract VC or go public or something. What matters to the users of Lemmy is how much content is here and whether it’s high quality or just bot spam.
I think what matters is funding and donation, not monthly active users. As long as people keep donating, the servers stay up and stay ad-free. Lemmy can cater to a specific paying user base and thrive from there. More active users that do not donate can be detrimental as the revenue does not scale by user base as it is not ad-driven but donation driven. More users can indeed increase potential donations but it’s not a guarantee.