Appearently the algorithm of Reddit has become shit this last days
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2025
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Nice one for posting so much! I'm a prolific poster as well but you've got me beat. It's a lot of work but I love to see people happily chatting here. I've no clue if it's quieter atm overall, but don't know that lemmy will fail. There's enough of us atm, and not many alternatives.
I finally motivated to start up a (hopefully) less biased, more international news community to combat the US-heavy dominance of .world. I loaded her up today. Guess weβll see how it goes. I guarantee I donβt find motivation every day.
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I believe itβs is slowly going down over time. But this is going at such a slow rate that reddit enshitification might lead more people to here in the future before there is no more great content on here.
But thank you for making such a great effort. You deserve a break (:
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Why do you care? Whatβs your goal? 5300 posts in 2 months is beyond the realm of mortals.
From what I've seen, no - the number of people actually regularly on here is going down, as I'm just seeing the same people more and more. When I use voyager you can see when your personal upvote/downvote score for every user on every one of their posts, and I'm mostly seeing people with a != 0 score, meaning I've interacted with their comments before. Means I'm not frequently seeing new people.
People like me who came here to escape the reddit bullshit of authoritarian power hungry mods and admins, insane censorship of anything right of "far left", and reinforcements of echo chambers through moderation, quickly found out that, if anything, Lemmy is already worse in some regards than reddit.
honest question because personally I'm not seeing it or maybe I'm just blinded to it but how is it worse? From what I've seen the moderation hasn't been anywhere near as heavy handed as on Reddit with the exception of nuking bots. Maybe because I'm just blocking certain instances that I'm not seeing it.
I think they give away their real complaint when they mentioned "anything to the right of far left" as if reddit only allows far left views.
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It's not. But mods generally just ban/threaten you if you post anything they disagree with. just like reddit. they have an agenda and if you are not on board with it 100% you are to be purged.
for example i've been banned from multiple lemmy communities because I dared to disagreed with the 'autism/non NT make you superior' narrative quite a few communities here were pushing. or questioning the 'perfection' of Linux...
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~~Nobody is recording long-term stats yet AFAIK~~, so you have to find a workaround. It seems the rest of Lemmy is growing relative to Hexbear, at least.
Edit: Nevermind, there are sites being linked here. It looks like by MAU it's more or less holding steady. Which maybe means Hexbear is dying from toxicity and infighting?
we peaked mid 2023, i have posted 2.8k comments in 2.5 years, so my work complements yours
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Slowly going down. The learning curve is too steep for the general population (personal opinion, happy to debate).
I wonder how much of that decrease is a result of instances shutting down and their users migrating off of Lemmy to platforms like PieFed and others. The users may not be completely gone, just not on Lemmy.
Piefed helped a number of communities reparent to their homeserver as-is when lemm.ee closed down, definitely a valid theory. meta@lemm.ee community final posts if you're keen to farm data.
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