This is some toxic lemmy culture bullshit.

That is for the fediverse overall. Most of that comes from Mastodon. I personally have a little more faith in fedidb.org and their numbers. Also, worth noting the criteria for active users on Lemmy was recently changed to include votes, whereas before it only counted comments and posts.

Coming back to this topic after some time. What do you think about the private group criticism of FEP-1b12? Is this resolvable without leaving the standard set by FEP-1b12? My first instinct is yes, but I imagine you’ve given this a lot more thought than I have.

Roadmap is updated recently. They did a poll to establish priorities given the recent surge in users sometime around November.

imo biggest thing to watch going into this year is whether or not the groups rework on Mastodon (currently listed as in-progress on their roadmap) improves federation between the two communities. At this point, how well a service federates with the larger network is probably the single most important aspect with regards to establishing natural growth. Not surprising as the strength of the fediverse is fundamentally interoperability.

Eh it’s only just stabilized, now is exactly when we’d expect efforts for natural growth to become active. Worth noting, at this point growth probably comes from Mastodon not Reddit.

This may change once more people are actually using it. As of this post it was probably only a handful of instances seeing those posts at all

Today!

It’s very possible this will change once this rolls out more broadly simply because the overall activity on smaller communities will increase substantially. I suspect a lot of people will make it a habit to check this sort but the overall size of these communities will probably not see a huge increase.