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Fediverse is Continuing, Growing, and Strong (fediverse.observer)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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It seems the fediverse is continuing and growing again. Line go up is probably good!

https://fediverse.observer/stats&months=50

Total users are huge now.

There are many websites out there that pull data from the fediverse. So take that with a grain of salt. But anecdotally I am seeing a small rise in people using the various platforms as each get more mature and servers somewhat stabilize.

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[-] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 2 points 6 days ago

Reddit is killing itself. It really didn't have to do anything but let X & Insta & TikTok feed into it. It has a better structure for daily use that isn't quite so toxic.

But instead they are letting Mods go crazy, Admin-bots that blow up your account with no explanation, user-bots that spam rage bait & other low effort LLM slop, and so on. It's a dying platform that should be thriving. The first place people find after searching "Less toxic Reddit" is fediverse, so of course it's growing.

[-] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 1 points 6 days ago

Oh and for some reason shoehorning in games? A product that tries to be everything becomes nothing.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 87 points 1 week ago

Though the Threadiverse/Lemmy in particular is shrinking - as that same webpage shows when you filter for Lemmy, currently we have 33K monthly active users, down from 35K in recent months, itself further down from 40K in Dec. 2025, having fallen from 65K at the peak during Rexodus.

See also the graph for PieFed, which shows 7K MAUs.

Which I find highly notable, especially given how people are leaving Reddit... and also Lemmy/the Threadiverse as well.

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago

Why not just count the two together? At 40k across lemmy + piefed, that's not bad.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 13 points 1 week ago

The website does not provide for that, which is why I mentioned both separately.

Note that the numbers then are still shrinking.

I personally have an account on both, which helps illustrate the difficulties of combining the two number pools - these are absolutely not additional people, or rather only some are but nobody knows how much.

Which reminds me, I think the way this website counts numbers, lemm.ee may not be represented at all, even as a decrease in counts from the past? If true, then the actual number of the drop is much larger than shown. But I don't know the details there.

I was avoiding commenting about the goodness or badness of the situation, just focusing on the direction of the change.

[-] Hal@piefed.nz 10 points 1 week ago

Are the numbers actually shrinking for Lemmy+Piefed?

Lemmy has gone from 36,600 monthly active users to 33,600 users in the last year. A loss of 3,000 monthly active users.

Piefed has gone from 1,600 MAU a year ago to 6,900 MAU now, an increase of 5,300 users.

This means the total has increased by 2,300 MAU in the past year.

Note that this drop in Lemmy and rise in Piefed can be explained by lemmynsfw shutting down and being replaced by fedinsfw, which runs piefed and has 3,600 MAU. Arguably both Lemmy and Piefed are slowly gaining in MAU.

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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week ago

I really wonder where they're going. I can't find any substitute for this little purgatory. Piefed? I'm not a fan of the UI. Masto? Twitter's a weird endless conversation space without proper organization and it makes me want to scream. Modern social media? We'd have vastly divergent desires if that's where they went.

[-] Fizz 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hacker news has been a nice place to browse. Yes a lot of the people are the most AI silicon valley brained ghouls but its offset by the entertainment of seeing them earnestly say the quiet part out loud. and because the forum has rules about sincerity thoughtful engagement you can open a thread and actually read a good discussion with intelligent comments.

[-] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

Hacker news generally flags and shuts down posts critical of tech bros, capitalism, or the right wing.

Lobste.rs is a better alternative to HN.

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[-] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 11 points 1 week ago

Maybe they aren't going anywhere. Just dumping social media. I find Lemmy a lot less toxic than reddit but it's still basically a reddit hive mind.

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[-] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 26 points 1 week ago

People are just generally leaving the threadiverse because... Sorry everyone but its so bleak here.

The world is going to shit and there's nothing any of us can reasonably do about it.

I doubt there's a day that goes by that I don't think about how this place does not "fill my cup with joy".

At the same time I kind of can't look away because I do feel b that I'm better informed because I read about how shit everything is.

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[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 18 points 1 week ago

Worth noting, on FediDB, Lemmy+Piefed+Mbin is sitting at 54.8k MAU. Lemmy itself is at 46.4k. Though I don't know the historical situation there.

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[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago

Looking at the PieFed graph, and all-time peak usage seems to be for last month, and the dip for this month could be explained by the month not being over yet (and even if not, it's not an indicator of decline).

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[-] mereo@piefed.ca 16 points 1 week ago

You can't just count Lemmy active users. I switched from Lemmy to Piefed for example. So we need to count Lemmy+Piefed.

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[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

For myself, I am spending less and less time online as the US midterms approach and I would not be surprised if others are doing the same. My time is better spent offline at the moment, but I haven't really left. Just taking more and more breaks for now.

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[-] TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago

Reddit is an AI dumpster fire. There are still decent communities, but the glory days are behind it (the 20teens). Reddit circa 2012-15' was peak. Now it's an AI slop infested milquetoast facebook alternative. Damn shame. Hopefully the user base will finally realize the ship has sailed straight up it's own corporate butthole, and seek alternatives, such as this one.

[-] Zarobi@aussie.zone 18 points 1 week ago

I checked just now and it's still the same slop as when I abandoned it.

Eating disorder family dinner rage bait
Office food stealing rage bait
"Karen" screaming at a fast food joint employees (food theme today it seems)
E-bike driving badly rage bait
Would you take $5 million for a minor inconvenience
Peter explain this simple but controversial joke I already understand but want to post as a question for more engagement
Ex lover rage bait
Thinly veiled normal activity misrepresented as creepy rage bait
Family drama rage bait
Petrol prices rant
What's a job that seems x but is actually y

Feels like I haven't missed anything at all

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[-] stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

I joined Lemmy, like 3 years ago I think. But I didn't start being active until this year. I think there is a lot of people like me, especially now that you have to log in to see old reddit. https://old.lemmy.world/ really tipped me over the edge in to being a regular.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago

Leaving Reddit wasn't easy. I read the tea leaves and left at apigate.

I had already eschewed Youtube API and was keeping Facebook out of arms length,

I poked around Bluesky for a while, it had a very strong pull.

I do not need machine-fed unlimited social media and news I don't thrive on it. Doomscrolling is not a good hobby.

[-] stopforgettingit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Yea, reddit has been a serious habit for me for almost 20 years, never been on Insta or Facebook or any other SM platform like I was on reddit, everyday all day in the background. Its been a hard one to break.

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[-] lucyph0r@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

I found Lemmy through grapheneos! That's my story. Love it.

If I hadn't smashed my iPhone in a work related accident I would never know the joy of ditching reddit and joining you folks.

Hazzah for happenstance! Life is great!

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[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Yeah, you can tell, way more conservative liberals on here than there used to be.

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[-] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Reddit is working hard on fediverese success

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago

Well, an alternative explanation would be LLM agent accounts, which started to appear on the fediverse around the time the above graph started to go up.

Here on Lemmy they are a bit delayed and only started to sign up in larger quantities in the last 2-3 months.

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[-] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

If you build it, they will come.

[-] TheNameBrand@lemmus.org 19 points 1 week ago

Newbie checking in. Hi.

[-] lucyph0r@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Me too! And not a bot! Woohoo!

[-] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And not a bot!

Wonderful! We love human flesh around here!

EDIT: Ok, I'm reading that back and I see how it sounds. Just editing to say we are not cannibals.

EDIT 2: Ok, I know that denying that we are cannibals makes it look even more like we are cannibals, but I promise you we are not

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[-] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Once AI starts stealing from us you'll know we've arrived.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

That’s already a massive problem that brings down instances all the time.

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[-] GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

[-] antiR@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Reddit ban people -> people look for alternatives

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[-] vegafjord@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago

note that this is accounts. So for example, I have 3 accounts I use regularily.

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[-] the_fuckler@nord.pub 13 points 1 week ago

Are you certain these are unique accounts?

[-] argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org 18 points 1 week ago

@the_fuckler

Not necessarily.

There is a count of *active* accounts (i.e. accounts that someone is actually using), so there's that.

But since nobody on the Fediverse knows who anybody is in real life (except for the few who use their real name), there's no way to know how many accounts are non-unique.

There could, for example, be one person who actively uses accounts on both Mastodon and Piefed.

@mesamunefire