Take those graphs with a grain of salt. There are several websites that track activity and all of them show different results. I also assume that almost every lemmy update affects these graphs, since things did break quite a few times.

This is from the official lemmy site join-lemmy. It says 820 Servers, 41k Active users

This is from fedidb (same site the screenshot from the post comes from). 923 Servers, 39,832 Active Users and 433,819 Total Users

Then we have fediverse.observer. Based on that graph, monthly active users are growing. 845 Servers and 43,631 Active users and 1,944,442 Total Users

And finally we have lemmyverse. Which uses the method to find the “sus” servers and users, so 863 Servers and 1,741,848 Actual Users

To me personally it seems like the content is becoming more regular and better in quality overall. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try it out. Currently using Alexandrite, it doesn’t even support imgur embeds…

It’s interesting to see that Lemmy users are so against the video.
I still stand by my argument that video is the superior type of media. Just because everyone instantly thinks of a shitty YouTube video with a 20 minute intro and filled with ads or a TikTok video of a stupid trend, that doesn’t mean that video is bad. I do agree that most video content nowadays is shit, and I also agree that text or text+image posts are much better for a lot of things, especially when you are looking for specific information.

But whatever your opinion about the video is, you cannot deny that video is the most popular medium and the most attractive/addictive one.
I made this post because I keep seeing posts about “Active monthly users dropped…” pretty often on here. Some say that’s because of the X reason, some say it’s because of the Y reason… Whatever the reason might be, this type of platform needs users, a lot of them.

I think that providing a bit of a doomscroll content through videos wouldn’t hurt anyone. The whole point of this type of site is to have communities focused on different things. Many communities that are very popular on the “other site” are basically dead here because video (embedded video posts) support is bad here.

Besides, isn’t this a site on which you can choose which communities you follow? So why would people who are against video posts even care if you can simply filter such content if you are not interested in it? A few of those “doomscrollers” might trickle into your niche community tomorrow and make it more popular…

I guess what I’m trying to say is that I’m kind of skeptical about Lemmy’s ability to keep the users. So I personally wouldn’t mind filtering a few shitpost communities if that means that we get more active users in other communities.

Maybe I’m wrong…

I’m definitely more generous with my upvotes on here.