Seriously, the pace of lemmy development is like russian frontline progress in Ukraine. Maybe something is up here considering devs are most likely Russians.
Have we had any serious updates in last year? I don't recall tbh. UI is the same, funcionalities are the same. Usability still is garbage, users are confused. I'm confused, although I'm over a year on lemmy. I only use my own instance because interactions with the rest of fediverse is confusing as f**.
Checking up https://fedidb.com/ and https://fediverse.observer/stats confirms that. Fedidb even stopped showing charts, I assume because it looks bad othwerwise they would proudly present the growth. Observer shows us that total number is going up, but it looks like folks just quickly check and leave cause number of active users is still the same.
Guy that entusiastically regularly posted weekly fediverse updates here https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-122/ stopped doing that 3 months ago. Posted for over 2 years and suddenly no message from him.
Just took a look and I would almost guarantee this guy is western and even more likely in the anglosphere. One of those interesting situations where countries that actually experienced authoritarian socialism (like yours) are far less supportive of its reintroduction than countries who didn't experience it. I wonder why...
It's not just Lemmy, fedi in general has dipped. There are also so many alternatives. When Digg imploded, internet growth was still exponential and Reddit was close to a single alternative. Now Reddit is bigger than Digg ever was. Digg had 40m MAU back in 2009 where as Reddit has 90m DAU so more than twice the monthly unique users in a day. Add to this there are multiple options, just on on fedi: kbin, piefedi, mbin, lotide. Then there are all the standalone sites, disqus being the biggest.
90m dau is wild.
Is it going to surpass Facebook?!
... No
lol