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 think it is fair to say that the hype surrounding last year’s Reddit exodus has come to an end. But, Lemmy existed for several years before then, and will continue to exist for the foreseeable future. It’s not going to grow infinitely, but there will likely be more waves in the future that see spikes of activity followed by declines, but each one will bring in new users that will build up the community slowly.
Lemmy is also part of the fediverse which does seem to be growing at a healthy rate, especially mastodon. It’s entirely possible that future software updates there will make Lemmy more visible to mastodon users and allow both communities higher levels of interaction.
Exactly, i actually discovered Lemmy about a year before the API issues but bounced off because there was not good 3rd party app support yet and i honestly didnt try hard enough to fill out my subscriptions list. Once that whole thing with Reddit happened, I came back and started using Lemmy again and actually put in the effort to make it work and deleted my Reddit account entirely, which forced me to use nothing but Lemmy.