My post got removed from technology community for no reason, so I am posting it here in hope of getting the full picture:
From what I can understand, every factor lead me to believe that lemmy is in decline.
Active users page at 3/30/2024
The latest release from lemmy is at Jan 22 (0.19.3)
In contrast, mastodon for example had several releases in Feb alone
Some people on reddit hate the community here.
I personally started seeing some of my posts on other platforms get more comments and upvotes.
Am I wrong or is it really the downfall of lemmy?
I wouldnt pay too much attention to the number of servers - 90% of them have only one user or very few users and host no communities of consequence. Most active communities are hosted on about 3 or 4 instances.
In about 6 months all the admins of those tiny instances will be considering paying the bill for the next year of domain / hosting and many are likely to pull the plug.
This process doesn’t reflect a weakness of Lemmy IMO, it’s just because of a certain amount of centralisation that has happened.