How is the size of Lemmy’s userbase changing? Is it growing or shrinking? How diverse is it? What do the current trendlines look like as we approach a year since Rexxit?

I feel like I used to see graphs on this sub fairly regularly, but haven’t seen one recently. There was also some ambiguity in the numbers as commenting and voting were added to the active user totals. Now that most (all?) instances have switched to 0.19, do we have a better idea of where things stand?

Aside from sticking around and posting, commenting, and voting, is there anything users should be doing to help grow the platform? (!lemmygrow would be a good name for a sublemmy, if anyone wanted to organize something)

In any case, thanks to everyone who has helped grow Lemmy to its current size!

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        8 months ago

        It just gives current stats, not historical trends. I don’t think it is any answer to OPs question.

        EDIT: I was wrong, it was an issue on my side.

        • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          8 months ago

          If you scroll down it does give historical trends on comments, posts, monthly active users, etc.

          What I meant is why do the graphs look so janky.

          For example:

          What happened in October 2023 that made so many users join?

          and

          What happened in February 2024 that made so many people stop posting?

          Edit: March -> February

          • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Sept/Oct '23 was the Boost lemmy mobile client release. A lot of people signed up and many of them bounced off shortly after.

    • filister@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I didn’t know there were almost as many Germans as Americans, the majority of Reddit users were Americans which has created Americocentric perspective on a lot of topics which from a European perspective was quite annoying.

      • waldek@lemmy.86thumbs.netEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I did not verify my thoughts but I think this could be because ovh has big datacenters in Germany and quite a lot of Europeans use ovh.

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          8 months ago

          fediverse had a strong european presence before the reddit migration too. The Mastodon lead-dev/founder, for instance, is German. And European governments have been far more interested in running their own instances on the fediverse than any other country AFAICT (to the point that I’ve seen it confuse North-American admins).