My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.
So while total users go up, the global federation is staying around the same. There’s quite a few servers that don’t want to be connected to everyone else.
Total MAUs are so low. You really need solid double digit YoY growth (20-30% YoY) to have a strong trajectory in the medium term.
Monthly active users have plateaued at 44k for a while now: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
User count seems to be going up according to fedidb. At least in the number of federated users.
It the number of active users stays the same, that could just mean that
My theory is that there is quite a few servers that are chosing to defederate. The number of total servers continues to drop according to fedidb.
So while total users go up, the global federation is staying around the same. There’s quite a few servers that don’t want to be connected to everyone else.
Or admins are just finding it not worth bothering with administering their own server and turning them off.
True.
That’s not really good a thing.
Obviously not