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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

    • @regalia
      1•9 months ago

      I can tell lol, especially when you mentioned Mastodon’s recent post first timeline. Lemmy is very, very different. I recommend actually looking at what it looks like on the site, it’s extremely different then how it looks on mastodon.

      • Strypey
        1•9 months ago

        @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?

        • @regalia
          1•9 months ago

          I believe “active” sort has comments bump put an entire post, which has many threads inside it. Not sure if time factors into it. The “hot” algo is slightly more complicated that factors in votes and then time will heavily decrease it from appearing on the front page. Both algos punish smaller communities as they’re not going to be as active or have nearly as much votes.

          • Strypey
            1•9 months ago

            @regalia
            > I believe “active” sort has comments bump put an entire post

            So a new comment in a thread bumps the OP to the front of the queue?

            > The “hot” algo is slightly more complicated that factors in votes

            Ah, right. I hadn’t considered that. “Votes” in Lemmy are essentially the same as “Favourites” in Mastodon, but I think the Masto devs made an intentional choice *not* to increase visibility of posts based on number of Favourites.

            • Strypey
              1•9 months ago

              @regalia
              In either Lemmy algorithm, only communities that Server Y knows about can be featured on the front page of Server Y, right? Which as I said, is also going to benefit larger communities, as they’re more likely to have members on more servers, and will therefore be featured on more front pages.