Reddit And Lemmy Alternatives

The member count is being replaced by two metrics. One shows how many users have visited a subreddit in the past seven days, “based on a rolling 28-day average,” according to Reddit, and the other displays how many contributions have been made in the past seven days, excluding any posts or comments that have been removed.

Imo this is actually not too bad an idea, though I don't quite follow what the fuck visitors in the last 7 days needs a rolling 28 day average for. Even before I left the site years ago, there were plenty of subreddits that had huge subscriber numbers and no activity anymore. Or activity that didn't reflect those numbers. Kind of like with some of your old favorite channels on youtube, people don't really unsubscribe so places that you used to visit a lot may have a lot of those numbers still but then you see their videos getting a few hundred views or posts only ever getting a dozen upvvotes. Those metrics will show actual current and recent activity of the subreddit instead of possibly inaccurate legacy numbers.

It's not necessarily based on whether or not a platform is dying to make this kind of a decision because even in a healthy site, areas age and fall out of favor inevitably, users move on to different interests, etc.