It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping.
Also a few people who came to see how it was, and weren’t attracted enough to become regular visitors.
Curious to see at which number we’ll stabilize.
Next peak will probably happen after either major features release (e.g. exhaustive mod tools allowing reluctant communities to move from Reddit) or the next Reddit fuck up (e.g. removing old.reddit)
Stats on each server: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list
This is one of the main things keeping a lot of us around I think. It’s not just repost bots of shit I’ve seen 5 times in a month.
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https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities is pretty useful!
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Wow, thanks! Now I know
That I agree with, the other thing that kills me is multiple communities of the same topic just in different servers.
Same here, I think I’ll open a thread about that in the coming days
@regalia
> our algo doesn’t do a good job of promoting smaller communities
Lemmy has an algo for that?
@SupraMario
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@regalia
> the algo for active/hot favor large communties, so smaller ones tend not to show up on the front page
I presume it’s the same as what determines which posts appear on the front page of a Mastodon server; chronological order of posts. That would favour the larger communities, since people post there more often.
The other limiting factor, I presume, is a Lemmy server only knows about the communities its accounts are members of. Larger communities will have members on more servers.
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@regalia
> Are you replying from Mastodon right now
Yes. Here’s the post you just replied to, on the public-facing web page of the Mastodon server I use:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/110943135468924731
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@regalia
> I recommend actually looking at what it looks like on the site, it’s extremely different then how it looks on mastodon
Yes, I’m familiar. I’ve been following Lemmy development for several years, as part of research for fediverse.party. That’s the background to my comments about the algorithm determining what appears on a Lemmy front page.
If you’re proposing that there’s a more complicated algorithm at work, what do you think it is?
V true. I will say seeing the same post across 5 instances does make me feel like I’m going crazy sometimes so I guess it’s a tradeoff xD