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)
Up the top it has software filter, if you select lemmy:
At this rate by 2035 the lemmy userbase will be depleted
Maybe we’re all just waiting for reddit to pull another… reddit.
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.
Assuming a constant rate of change of anything involving people over a period of ten years is straight up nonsense.
I disagree it’s fun, at this rate by 2035 we’ll need to pay users to use lemmy
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.
sorry mate that was a joke, not a literal statement
All good! The internet makes it even harder to tell because I can’t “read” anyone over the ether.