I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] rglullis@communick.news 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (38 children)

Network effects are incredibly strong

Yet, Bluesky has grown to 35M+ active accounts, even though they started way after us

We have the advantage that we’re not growth focused

This is not an "advantage". This is an excuse we tell ourselves to cope with our failures.

The inevitable enshittification will do its job eventually,

And when it does, the majority of people will go the next shiny "free as in beer", VC-funded siloed platform and we are going to be just another "They don't know" meme.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As explained by the user below

capitalist growth-focused approach

Communities growing in size is for capitalist pig dogs!

We here at the communist-iverse prefer to die slowly with brief spurts of new users when a more popular platform makes changes before they leave again

[–] Skavau@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tbf Idk what you imagine Lemmy can somehow do to entice new people

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Better UX I think would help slightly, not easy when we have such good decentralization. Maybe PieFed will end up hooking people better?

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