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Is the Fediverse stalling? (lemmy.relayeasy.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aye it is.... but 400 users seems really small compared to others

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

2500 monthly active users on [email protected]

https://feddit.uk/communities

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

again - no bias but that seems tiny compared to other "things"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What other things? For the Fediverse, there doesn't seem to be a large UK mastodon instance: https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/list

For corporate social media, is there any UK based social media?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Nope.... us Brits are a strange lot. Heck it is why I asked the q to start with because brits ARE so strange

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Still, what other UK "things" have more than 2500 monthly active users ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

All the meta products, reddit, old fashioned forums... plenty of things. Discourse (pah) tik tok. Different but have way more users. I'm genuinely curious how they get so little traffic in this day and age against other methods. And yes, I know I'm asking on Lemmy, but I'm new here, and I still cannot fathom why they are so quiet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

All the meta products, reddit, old fashioned forums… plenty of things. Discourse (pah) tik tok. Different but have way more users

Aren't all of those US focused?

I’m genuinely curious how they get so little traffic in this day and age against other methods. And yes, I know I’m asking on Lemmy, but I’m new here, and I still cannot fathom why they are so quiet

Network effect. [email protected] if you want to help spread the word

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

nope they have plenty of UK focused things. Run by a US corp of course, but plenty of local content. I welcome the debate, but for the majority of people not in the fediverse ecosystem, the numbers just look awful and that is a massive reason they don't either look here, or stay. Herd mentality is strong. Most of them are in no way shape or form techy either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

If they're OK on corporate social media, there's not a lot of reason to switch here indeed