Ask Lemmy

You picked two random days, compared their active user counts, and concluded that it must indicate a continuous trend.

Yesterday, it was 60°F out. Today it's 30°F out. Clearly, by next week, everyone in my town will be dead by freezing.

Experts struggle with statistics. Laymen, doubly so.

EDIT:

Also, that's only a difference of 7%, so it's not even that drastic.

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Also also, what does any of this have to do with your post being removed? What was the post? Did the mod/admin give you a reason for removal?

I don't think software releases indicate the health of the community.

Having said that, I do feel like there are fewer posts and comments. The communities I visit have a handful of users, which makes it a bit claustrophobic.

The small userbase means we don't get much variety in viewpoints or content, but it's enough for me.

I'm hanging on because I'm hoping it'll miraculously start growing. Any day now.

If you look at the statistics, it doesn't appear to be. Check out the last handful of charts on that page. Yes there was a big spike, but it doesn't seem to be in decline.

No, users come and go, this is just how it goes.

I wouldnt pay too much attention to the number of servers - 90% of them have only one user or very few users and host no communities of consequence. Most active communities are hosted on about 3 or 4 instances.

In about 6 months all the admins of those tiny instances will be considering paying the bill for the next year of domain / hosting and many are likely to pull the plug.

This process doesn't reflect a weakness of Lemmy IMO, it's just because of a certain amount of centralisation that has happened.