I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

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[–] rimu@piefed.social 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

But usage is not going downwards. Check these stats out: https://fediverse.observer/stats

MAU has been steady at 1.1 million since this time last year.

Within the fediverse there are some platforms that are losing ground and some that are growing.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Up the top it has software filter, if you select lemmy:

At this rate by 2035 the lemmy userbase will be depleted

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Assuming a constant rate of change of anything involving people over a period of ten years is straight up nonsense.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I disagree it's fun, at this rate by 2035 we'll need to pay users to use lemmy

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

By 2035 we could be under water, or all living in a radioactive hellscape. And the argument of paying people to use a free service breaks logic.

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sorry mate that was a joke, not a literal statement

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 2 points 1 week ago

All good! The internet makes it even harder to tell because I can't "read" anyone over the ether.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Maybe we're all just waiting for reddit to pull another... reddit.

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

Seven years isn't a bad halflife for a social-media platform. That's about how long thefacebook was actually usable, that's about how long I was active on reddit, that's about how long I was posting on my blog every day. That's significantly longer than I was using livejournal or iLike.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What’s nodebb? I thought it was like a deadish lemmy clone but it seems to be the second most popular software here?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's old traditional forum software, they recently added ActivityPub support

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interesting. So like federated foss xenforo?

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I think so, although I'm not familiar with Xenforo.

Here's what it looks like https://community.nodebb.org/category/2/general-discussion

!general-discussion@community.nodebb.org

https://nodebb.fediverse.observer/list

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow this is cool!

I have one last question. How do you see other servers from one nodebb forum. I can’t find lemmy for example when scrolling through a nodebb instance.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 week ago

Actually I'm not sure that's possible yet! Seems like you have to use Lemmy or something to browse them in that way.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But pretty much everything else is growing... I am generalising but surely by now there should be way more than 1.1 million. This is what I mean, I see less now than I have before over the Fediverse not more (content, people,reactions)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Have you subscribed to the new Piefed communities following the lemm.ee shutdown?

https://lemmy.relayeasy.com/post/326

I just tried with !movies@piefed.social and !casualconversation@piefed.social , and it seems like your instance doesn't federate them, I guess it's probably the same for the others

Wait a sec, how come that https://lemmy.relayeasy.com/c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk isn't federated either?

Edit: what a sec, your instance only has 7 communities federated?!

https://lemmy.relayeasy.com/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 1 points 1 week ago

Tis brand new community (yes really)