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?
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.