Fediverse

It's because Reddit is still alive and well and Lemmy just doesn't offer enough to be a serious alternative (yet)

Sync's already had over 10k downloads, but the ability to post (apart from comments) hasn't yet been added. Once that happens I imagine there'll be a decent spike.

Not surprising that the initial hype from the Reddit meltdown is wearing off, the question is how much momentum can be retained and how to attract users organically.

Posting smth so I count as an active user again

People on vacation in July and august too maybe ? Might have a slight rebound later

I mentioned this in another thread but I think it's regression to the mean

This is not a bad thing. Lurkers have always been a significant part of the user base in all social media.

Lurkers not counting probably has something to do with that.

Lemmy feels, some days, like its bots all the way down. Just reddit repost bots everywhere.

That decline is slower than I expected. It shows that more people stay than not

Being new to Mastodon and Lemmy I personally struggle to figure things out. Just finding a brief summary on how Lemmy works in contrast to reddit has, so far, yielded no helpful results. While I think for me this is just a matter of sticking with the services I can imagine that a lot of people would check in, struggle and check out again.

The, let's call it infrastructure, of Lemmy and the way registration works due to the fediverse is quite different to what most people are used to.

Yeah cuz the shot is down constantly. I have 2 apps and one usually doesn't work.

Doing my part...

To be expected. I like it but it's still quite an immature platform overall. There's lots to be done to make it easier for an average user.