• Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They might be using some smoothing, because all lines are noise-free. and the last point might just be an artifact. It looks like a constant growth

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      1 year ago

      According to the graph it accounts for active users within the last 30 days. 30Days ago the reddit strike started and an influx of people started posting. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people haven’t been here since. There was a lot of performance and other issues with lemmy&kbin at that time.

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        1 year ago

        There is also always a flurry of people trying out accounts in multiple instances whenever there’s a migration wave, so not only are we seeing people who dipped a toe in only to leave, or go back to Reddit, but we’re seeing the effect of people understanding how the ecosystem works better and settling into a single active account.